Biodevastation

Kickbacks, sham studies and regulatory payoffs distort prescribing and drug approvals

Big Green groups taking millions from Big Tech have abandoned vulnerable communities to become accomplices in data center proliferation rather than opponents.

Industrial agriculture is perpetuating one of the greatest threats to mankind.

Microplastics—tiny fragments born of a fossil-fuel economy—have silently permeated oceans, marine life, and the human body, revealing a crisis far deeper than visible pollution. From seabed sediments to seafood on our plates, these particles disrupt ecosystems, impair species, and bioaccumulate across the food chain, raising urgent health concerns. As shows, even staple foods like mussels now serve as indicators of this pervasive contamination. The article exposes how corporate myths around recycling obscure systemic failure, and argues that only decisive action at the source—curbing plastic production itself—can halt this escalating ecological and public health emergency.

Four women from Chikli Badra village in Banswara district of Rajasthan Kalpana Pargi, Santosh Pargi, Manjula Pargi, and Lalidevi Pargi set an inspiring example of self-reliance through community farming despite challenges such as sloping land, limited resources, and uncertain rainfall. With guidance and training from Vaagdhara organization, these women started collective cultivation of American maize on 2 bighas of land. Through collective decision-making, shared use of resources, and adoption of improved techniques, they not only increased production but also connected with markets and earned approximately one lakh rupees. This initiative not only strengthened their economic condition but also enhanced their confidence, leadership abilities, and social recognition. This story demonstrates that through collective effort, innovation, and courage, rural women can create new livelihood opportunities even in difficult geographical conditions and lead positive change within their communities.

Fifteen years after the Fukushima disaster, its shadows still stretch across oceans, ecosystems, and public health debates. Joshua Frank revisits the 2011 catastrophe to expose how a “beyond design-basis” failure revealed the inherent risks of nuclear power—risks still downplayed by governments and industry. From radioactive contamination of marine life to unanswered questions about long-term cancer rates, Fukushima remains an unresolved crisis. Linking past disaster to present nuclear expansion and militarization, the article warns that so-called “peaceful” atomic energy carries dangers as grave as nuclear weapons—and that the next catastrophe may already be looming.

Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from a company, Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), that was planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous Lenca community.

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.