Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

There are numerous books that speak about the legacy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s destruction.[0] There is no place they have intervened where the people have become more prosperous. This defensive military alliance that is only versed in being offensive, consumes much energy to maintain the imperialist hegemony; energy that can be used…

New Delhi’s decision to auction, for the first time in the country, 13 offshore mineral blocks for deep-sea mining, vide the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023, has met with a rare show of political unity in Kerala. Following protest demonstrations by fish workers’ unions, the ruling party and the opposition in…

Pesticides banned years ago in the European Union are drifting through the skies and turning up in clouds above France, raising concerns about how long these toxins persist and how far they can travel, with potentially harmful global health impacts, according to a pathbreaking new study.

Every Wednesday, dozens of retirees go out to protest the economic policies of Javier Milei’s government, which has opted for repression against the elderly.

Cardiovascular disease—the world’s leading cause of death—is increasingly driven by polluted air, toxic chemicals, plastics, noise, and extreme temperatures, according to a sweeping new review in Cardiovascular Research that calls for stricter environmental regulations to protect public health.

Aspartame—the artificial sweetener found in everything from Diet Coke and sugar-free chewing gum to children’s medications—may raise the risk of the most common type of stroke by causing inflammation and disrupting blood vessel health and blood flow, according to new research.

When chemical giant Syngenta hired biologist Tyrone Hayes to study its widely used herbicide atrazine, the company didn’t like the results. Hayes found that atrazine, one of the most common weed killers in America, disrupted hormones in frogs and altered their sexual development. Instead of facing the science, Syngenta went into product-defense mode: pressuring Hayes…

Even very low levels of nitrate in drinking water—far below the federal government’s safety threshold—may significantly increase the risk of premature birth and low birth weight, according to a new study. Nitrate, a pervasive chemical that enters drinking water mainly through chemical fertilizer runoff and animal manure from farms, is invisible, odorless, and tasteless—leaving many…

A critical yet often overlooked question in the energy transition debate is how much total energy—accounting for materials, services, and other embedded uses—can a society/community/family sustainably consume. While there is no consensus, we can consider models like pre-crisis Sri Lanka or Kerala in India, which achieved high Human Development Index scores with relatively low per…

When Sowjanya Soujanaya goes to her ATM garden in Edulamaddali in the morning, she not only finds enough herbs, spices and tubers to cook a healthy lunch for her family of five, but also always finds something to sell at the market. ATM stands for “Any Time Money” and is a mixed cultivation of more…