[posted by Bibi van der Zee on The Guardian June 26, 2017] Stiegler Gorge dam on the Selous park, a world heritage site listed as ‘in danger’, will cause irreversible damage, say conservationists. Plans to build a huge hydroelectric dam in the heart of one of Africa’s largest remaining wild areas have dismayed conservationists who fear that the plans will cause irreversible damage to the Selous game reserve in Tanzania. After many...

The European Commission wants to approve glyphosate weedkiller for another decade, despite the World Health Organisation’s cancer warnings. Together, we’ve fought for years to get Roundup’s main ingredient banned — we won’t let Monsanto win the day now! If we can convince Germany’s Chancellor, France’s President, and Italy’s Prime Minister to step up and vote against the Commission’s proposal, then glyphosate will not be...

[sent on May 28, 2017] A letter from Christopher Portier, a long-time toxicologist active in glyphosate studies, to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. Based on the re-assessment of raw data from studies about potential cancer-causing herbicide on animals, Mr Portier criticizes the evaluations of the European Chemicals Agency (Echa) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He points up that excess of tumors...

[posted by Naomi Klein on The Intercept, August 28, 2017] Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes. Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of talk about how unprecedented this kind of rainfall is. How no one saw it coming, so no...

[posted by Sandra Laville and Matthew Taylor on The Guardian, June 28, 2017] Exclusive: Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments. A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be...

  [posted by Valerie Volcovici on Reuters, June 15, 2017] A federal judge ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider its environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Wednesday, opening up the possibility that the line could be shut at a later date. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington said the Army Corps did not adequately consider the effects of a possible oil spill on the fishing and hunting...