On the basis of the anti-Chevron campaign, several Swiss organizations have launched a call to the Swiss National Bank (BNS) to request that it intervenes in the annual Assembly of Chevron Corporation in the United States on 31 May 2017 to vote in favour of climate, human rights and environmental resolutions. In two resolutions, the Ecuadorian case is also mentioned which, according to the shareholder initiators, has been...

[posted by Maurizio Bongioanni on SlowFood, May 30, 2017] An independent study finds consistent traces of glyphosate in a sample of pregnant women in Rome. Since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as ‘probably carcinogenic for humans’, the debate raging round the world’s most used herbicide has mounted, while the license to use it in Europe has been renewed for the whole of 2017. If you still...

[posted on Friends of the Earth International, April 11 , 2017] El Salvador made history last week by becoming the first country ever to ban metal mining.  The success of this decades long struggle is proof that people can take on corporate interests and win. This is the story of how the people of El Salvador took on mining giants. Mining has a dark history in El Salvador. Years of unregulated, pro-investor policies coupled with rapid...

[posted on Friends of the Earth Europe, May 4, 2017] The Ikebiri community, from Bayelsa state, Nigeria, have launched an unprecedented legal case against the Italian oil giant Eni today seeking clean-up of, and compensation for damages from, an oil spill which has affected their community in the Niger Delta [1]. Supported by Friends of the Earth Europe and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, the Ikebiri...

[posted on National Snow & Ice Data Center, March 22, 2017] The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. NSIDC scientists provide Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis content, with partial support from NASA. BOULDER, Colo., March 22, 2017—Arctic sea ice was at a record low maximum extent for the third straight year,...

[posted on Special Section of Journal of Political Ecology] In its Volume 24, the Journal of political ecology publishes a special section on Political ecologies of health and disease gather articles from Entitle and Ejolt projects’ team members Panagiota Kotsila, Creighton Connolly, Giacomo D’Alisa, Marco Armiero, Ilenia Lengo and Marcelo Firpo.   The section includes: Creighton Connolly, Panagiota Kotsila and Giacomo...