[posted by Greg Mercer on The Guardian, May 30th, 2018]   Every aspect of the indigenous Inuit culture grows from the land – but the unpredictable seasons are forcing the community to adjust their traditions   Martin Shiwak is navigating his snowmobile along the frozen shoreline when his eight-year-old son Dane, who is riding on the back, points at a wall of stunted spruce trees. Shiwak cuts the engine, hops off the machine...

[posted by Ann Godwin on The Guardian, May 27th, 2018]   An environment expert, and the director of ecological think tank, Health of Mother of Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimo Bassey spoke with ANN GODWIN in Port Harcourt, where he demands that urgent actions be taken to avert the impending human catastrophe. He also wants residents to sustain protest against the worsening atmospheric condition.   For over two years now, Port...

[posted by Tom Fawthrop  on The Guardian, May 16th, 2018]   Government-commissioned report says proposed site at Sambor reach is the ‘worst possible place’ for hydropower due to impact on wildlife A Chinese-backed plan to build Cambodia’s biggest dam could “literally kill” the Mekong river, according to a confidential assessment seen by the Guardian which says that the proposed site at Sambor is the “worst possible place” for...

[posted by Martin Banks on The Parliament Magazine, May 18th, 2018]   The controversial substance glyphosate has serious adverse health effects, including on sexual and reproductive health, according to a new report published this week. This was the main finding of a study by the Italy-based Ramazzini Institute, which presented the results of a pilot study on glyphosate at a news briefing in Parliament. The study is part of the...

[posted by Paul Hockenos on YaleEnvironment360, May 8th, 2018]   Day and night, visitors to the mountain village of Kruš?ica in central Bosnia and Herzegovina — a speck on the map about 40 miles west of Sarajevo — encounter local women sentinels. The women have set up camp on the left bank of the Kruš?ica River in front of a narrow, rough-hewn wooden bridge, above which hangs a Bosnian flag and banners that declare “Bridge of the...

[posted by Ben Chapman on Independent, May 13th, 2018]   Royal Dutch Shell, Italian oil giant Eni and a number of senior executives at the two firms face trial in Milan on Monday over corruption charges relating to a $1.1bn (£800m) deal for a Nigerian oil block. The Milan public prosecutor alleges that $520m from a 2011 deal to buy rights to a vast oil block off Nigeria’s coast was converted into cash and intended to be paid to...