[accionecologica.org, 13th of January 2017] Dearest friends, We want to publicly acknowledge the thousands of letters, embraces and messages that we have received from every corner of the world. We have, indeed, received an answer that for many, was unexpected: the Ecuadorean government has desisted in its intent to close Acción Ecológica. We have known (between you and us) how to defend our right to solidarity, to participation, and...

[by Nora on Upside-Down] In a space when rivers meet the sea, and the hungry tides wash the lands in continuous rhythm, fishing seems to be the only alternative to survive in the hostile landscape that creates what today is known as the Sundarbans. But when tradition meets modernity, and the rule of conservation overcome the rituals and the customs of the forest dwellers, a conflict between people and state, human and animal arise in...

A new report from IDMC – Displaced for Development in India] By providing a first-hand account of development projects and business activities that have caused displacement across India, this report documents and analyses the scale, process and impacts of the phenomenon. Rather than being priority beneficiaries of the projects that displace them on account of their losses, IDPs tend to find themselves trapped in permanent...

[posted on ejolt.org]El Niño translates to ‘the boy‘ and in his case, the child is unwanted. El Niño is a periodic climate phenomenon that occurs when a vast pool of water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean becomes abnormally warm. The resulting changes in ocean currents and winds affect the world’s weather and climate. What set the most recent 2015 to 2016 El Niño apart is that it was one of the strongest ever, which is related to...

[By Paul Brown on Climatenewsnetwork.net] Analysts say tackling climate change is a more difficult and expensive challenge for governments than achieving the unconnected goal of being self-reliant for energy needs. For many governments aiming to reduce their import bills and avoid being reliant for fuel on potentially hostile or unstable foreign powers, energy independence is the ultimate goal. But international economists have...

[By Tim Radford on Climatenewsnetwork.net] Melting sea ice is affecting the closely-linked Arctic climate in a feedback that will speed up warming there, scientists say. Scientists have established at least one factor in the record melting of northern Greenland in 2015. The Arctic itself played a hand in what happened. In a process that engineers call positive feedback, high atmospheric pressure and clear skies over the Arctic region...