GST Original Articles
By Robert Hunziker / 18 August 2022
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Carbon emissions have turned the planet into a heat machine.
According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, severe drought is now found throughout the planet.
A recent Cambridge University study claims that since 2015 European drought has accelerated and intensified. In fact, the continent is experiencing the most intense drought in 250 years.
By Robert Hunziker / 13 August 2022
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As the UK suffered its hottest-ever temperatures only recently, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, interviewed Britain’s erudite environmental journalist George Monbiot July 21, 2022 about his most recent article in The Guardian: This Heatwave Has Eviscerated The Idea That Small Changes Can Tackle Extreme Weather, July 18, 2022.
According to Monbiot: “Paper straws are not enough. Only System Change can halt the climate crisis.” Of course... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 08 August 2022
For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s a disturbing discovery, but first a look at the marine food web, starting with the lowest organisms: (1) phytoplankton — plant-like plankton (green algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates) eaten by (2) zooplankton – microorganisms (crustaceans, rotifers, insect larvae and mites) eaten by (3)... Read more
By Raymond Nat Turner / 24 July 2022
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dial 9-1-1 singing the dispatcher this:
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Akron…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Brunswick…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Cleveland…)
Tell the cops, “He’s got a broken brake light…Treat it like a traffic stop!”
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Ferguson…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul…)
“I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from New Orleans…)
Tell the cops... Read more
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By Drew Pendergrass / 03 April 2023
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The realities of the energy transition – repeatedly outlined by the IPCC – make it clear that lives in the Global North must change. The world cannot simply trade out the fossil fuel energy system and replace it with renewables like one would a set of batteries. Expecting everything else to remain the same is a form of science denial.
While putting a price on carbon,... Read more
By Yanqi Xu / 02 April 2023
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Marty Stange kept adding the worrisome maps to a file folder on his desk. Hastings’ veteran environmental supervisor gathered the maps from a 200-square-mile area surrounding the city, aerial photos marked with dots whose size indicates how much uranium is found in the water supply... Hastings’ own wells – those used to supply drinking water to city... Read more
By Mike Bader / 01 April 2023
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Rising tensions between the US and China have led the Biden Administration to announce a campaign for production of rare earth minerals used for production of electric vehicle batteries, parts for jet engines, computer chips and more.... For example, existing and projected cobalt mining in the Panther Creek area in Idaho affects roadless... Read more
By Alex de Jong / 20 March 2023
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IN 1986, MASS protest overthrew Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Thirty-six years later, his son was elected president. The 2022 elections have crowned a decades-long project aimed at returning the Marcos dynasty to power and shown the support for Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarianism.
By Fergie Chambers / 18 March 2023
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What I saw was a people who had been through hell, and had adjusted to it, all the while unwavering in their commitment to what they see as a fight for self-determination against the reach of the United States and its vassals, especially NATO....This is just my first day, and I am already seeing that the things we’ve been hearing about Donbas are... Read more
By Christos Avramidis / 14 March 2023
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In 2011, workers at the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, stopped receiving wages. Management and owners abandoned the facility shortly afterward. Instead of dispersing, the workers of Vio.Me held an assembly and voted to take over management of the factory themselves. Over the past decade, they’ve kept the factory running, jointly determining... Read more
By Tamara Pearson / 13 March 2023
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