Biodevastation

The Trump administration handed Bayer another win, urging the Supreme Court in a new brief to side with the German pesticide company in a high-stakes legal case that could wipe out thousands of cancer lawsuits and potentially billions of dollars in liability tied to glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller.

Concrete is rising fast along the Chenab, but at what cost? As hydropower projects multiply across this fragile Himalayan valley, cracked homes, fading springs, forest loss, and anxious communities tell a story far more complex than “clean energy.” With seven projects advancing and strategic anxieties simmering under the Indus Waters Treaty framework, the river is becoming a site where ecology, displacement, and geopolitics collide. Can renewable ambition coexist with watershed stability and regional trust? Umair Khan examines how upstream engineering, climate stress, and statecraft are reshaping the Chenab—and why transparency and ecological restraint are now urgent.

New transmission lines for “green” energy installations are on the drawing board all over the United States. This aspect of solar, wind, etc., is generally over-looked except by the people who live nearby. With so many miles proposed, that’ll be more and more people as time goes on. I expect there will be pushback, at least about routing. Moving the rights-of-way into sparsely inhabited-by-humans places just shifts the impacts there of course, so the losers will be denizens of the more-than-human world.

Older adults who lived in areas with high air pollution levels early in the 2000s scored significantly worse on memory tests in 2011 than their peers in low-pollution communities, even if air quality improved in the meantime, according to a new study.

Syngenta, maker of a controversial pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease, said on Tuesday that it will stop making its paraquat weed killer by the end of June.

Tiny pieces of plastic, widely found in food, water, and air, can harm the development and function of specialized brain cells that regulate reproduction, new research reports.   These cells, called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons, act like main switches for puberty and fertility. During early development, they must travel to the right place in the brain and then release hormones in a precise rhythm throughout life.

Reducing greenhouse gases alone will not prevent environmental catastrophe if we continue destroying natural ecosystems. The central thesis of biotic pump theory is that greenhouse gases warm the planet, but water movement and waterstate changes drive climate stability.

This article documents the transformative journey of women farmers in Amarthoon village of Banswara, Rajasthan, where agricultural diversification into brinjal and cluster bean cultivation has significantly enhanced livelihoods and reduced seasonal migration. In a predominantly tribal region marked by small landholdings, rain-fed agriculture, and chronic poverty, women farmers traditionally earned minimal income from conventional crops such as maize and soybean. The intervention initiated in 2022 by Vaagdhara introduced a comprehensive model combining women’s group formation, access to improved vegetable seeds, Farmer Field Schools, and training in organic farming practices. By shifting to high-value vegetable crops and adopting low-cost organic inputs such as Jeevamrit, Dashparni Ark, and vermicompost, participating women increased their income from approximately ₹10,000 to as much as ₹1,50,000 per two bighas of land. Beyond income growth, the initiative led to reduced migration, improved housing, better access to education and healthcare, and enhanced household nutrition. What began as a village-level effort has expanded into a district-wide movement, reaching 13,952 farmers. The case of Amarthoon illustrates how women’s empowerment, capacity building, and ecological farming practices can drive holistic rural development. It underscores the potential of agricultural diversification and community-based approaches in strengthening socio-economic resilience among small and marginal farmers in

Across Africa, the departure of multinational mining companies leaves behind a trail of ruin—abandoned pits, poisoned water, shattered livelihoods, and ghost towns stripped of basic services. What was once promised as “development” turns into long-term dispossession, as profits are exported and communities are left to bear ecological and economic collapse. The article exposes how extractive capitalism treats land and people as expendable, revealing a pattern of corporate exit without accountability. It calls for justice, reparations, and a rethinking of resource governance rooted in people’s rights, not profit. Africa’s wealth, it argues, must no longer produce poverty.