Ferocious floods wreak havoc across East Africa
East Africa has been grappling with a crisis of monumental proportions - devastating floods that have wreaked havoc across the region. From Kenya to Somalia, Tanzania to Ethiopia, the torrents of rain have displaced communities, destroyed agricultural farmlands, and left a trail of human suffering in their wake. East...
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Exclusive – in conversation with Mitzi Jonelle Tan and Erica McAlister
We went to the Natural History Museum’s Generation Hope: Act for the Planet event to highlight both the anti-imperialist climate justice activist’s and the entomologist’s insights on the climate crisis and how we can drive positive change for the Earth’s future. Mitzi Jonelle Tan is an environmental justice activist from...
Schiphol Airport U-turns on plan to cut 40,000 flights per year
The Dutch airport, which acts as a European hub for international connecting flights, has cracked under pressure from the US and other neighbouring EU countries. Earlier this week, the Dutch government announced that its largest and busiest airport will temporarily abandon plans to reduce the number of flights it...
Climate change is affecting human brain function
Though we’ve known for a while that environmental factors can alter the way our brains function, researchers have only just begun to examine the links between climate change and neuroscience. Since the 1940s, scientists have known from conducting studies on mice that changing environmental factors can profoundly impact the...
EU agrees landmark ban of plastic waste exports to poorer nations
The EU will ‘finally assume responsibility’ for the horrendous volume of plastic waste it exports to poorer nations, reads a statement attached to a landmark ban slated to be in effect by 2026. The ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach hasn’t proven too effective for the EU and its...
Why is it so hard to get justice in revenge porn cases?
The English Justice System continues to fail women in many aspects of the law, including relatively new areas such as revenge porn. Here’s the firsthand reality from victims and those with experience of law enforcement. Almost ten years ago, Charley reported her half-brother to the police upon discovering he was...
Richest 1% emit as much pollution as two-thirds of humanity
According to a recent report on climate inequality conducted by Oxfam, the planet-heating carbon emissions generated by the world’s wealthiest surged to 5.9 billion tonnes in 2019 – enough to cause 1.3 million excess deaths due to extreme heat. The richest 1% of humanity are responsible for around the same percentage of global carbon emissions as the 5 billion people who represent the 66% poorest, with dire consequences for...
2023 is officially the hottest year in the last 250,000 years
Two new reports confirm 2023 to be the hottest year in modern history. We are living through global warming in real time. This week, it was confirmed that 2023 is the hottest year in the past 125,000 years – meaning we’ve already lived through the warmest 12 months in human history (give or take a few years). While we still have over a month until 2024, EU scientists have said it’s ‘virtually...
Sunak’s plan to send UK asylum seekers to Rwanda has been blocked
The British Supreme Court has ruled against the Conservative Party’s plan to send asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda over concerns about human rights violations and possible relocation. A government plan to send asylum seekers currently in the UK to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the British Supreme Court. Although UN refugee agencies have welcomed the decision, this is a huge blow to PM Rishi Sunak and his Conservatives...
WHO declares loneliness a ‘global public health concern’
The World Health Organisation has declared loneliness a significant global health threat. A newly formed commission's US surgeon says that the mental state is as detrimental to human health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We all know that loneliness is grim, but it appears we’ve been underestimating the toll solitude takes on all of us. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently constructed an international commission to delve into the science behind...
