[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...

Nasce Toxic Bios: raccontare è resistere

Raccontare è resistere Nasce Toxic Bios, il progetto che mira a raccontare le storie “tossiche” di chi ha subito ingiustizie ambientali e di chi le combatte, un progetto sostenuto dall’Università di Stoccolma e promosso da Marco Armiero e Ilenia Iengo, due ricercatori che si occupano di conflitti ecologici e giustizia ambientale. Questo progetto intende il racconto delle ingiustizie ambientali subite come una forma di resistenza: se è...

[posted by Laura Fano Morrissey on TheJournal.ie, March 11, 2017] Fear of an incinerator in the city of Dublin is not irrational – and we need to demand better controls and monitoring before it begins to burn. Life goes on as normal in Sandymount, Dublin, where the sea front bustles with life, people jogging, children running around on the beach when the tide is out. Such a beautiful spectacle of nature, one you would hardly find in...

[posted by Damian Carrington and Jelmer Mommers on The Guardian, February 28, 2017] Public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has not acted accordingly since, say critics. The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered. However, since then the...