Once discarded coal mines are sustainably heating EU homes
Abandoned coal mines are proving a surprisingly effective source of zero-carbon energy in Europe. That’s what you call poetic justice. It’s strange to think the bones of old fossil fuel mines may actually help our net zero ambitions, but we’ll take any win we can get. Throughout parts of Europe, abandoned...
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Exclusive – Meeting student welfare activist Nasir Khuehami
We spoke with student activist and National Convener of Jammu & Kashmir Students’ Association about his work towards ensuring the safety and security of Kashmiri students by coordinating evacuations, relief drives, and protests. ‘I am duty bound to try and help’, says Nasir Khuehami while echoing his motto as...
Has Indian press freedom reached its breaking point?
With two new UAPA arrests of journalists, Indian reporters bear the worst burns of a government's crusade to silence dissent. In the early hours of Tuesday, October 3rd, Delhi Police raided the residences of more than 46 journalists associated with the news outlet NewsClick accusing them of siphoning funds. Two among...
Opinion – Turning Hitler’s birthplace into a police station is too on the nose
As work begins on the controversial project, Austria’s Ministry of the Interior is facing criticism from both locals and the global online community. When Austria announced its decision to turn Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into a police station, their Ministry of the Interior was met with bemusement and criticism. At the...
Exclusive – Chelsea Miller talks sustainable-movement building
A leading voice in racial justice and digital organising, Chelsea Miller is the co-founder of Freedom March NYC, one of the largest youth-led civil rights groups in America. We spoke to her about how considering long-term impact should always take precedence over promoting band-aid solutions. ‘People can’t be what they...
Greenland’s Indigenous women deserve more than financial compensation
A group of women in Greenland say Danish doctors involuntarily sterilised them with intrauterine devices. Indigenous women across the globe have a traumatic historical relationship with genocide. Attempts to wipe-out indigenous populations have been pervasive across the West and beyond, but they appear in many forms, some more overtly...
New report says climate crisis costs $16 million in damages per hour
According to new research published in the science journal Nature Communications, the world’s economies are paying a hefty price in the battle against climate change. A new study published by two scientists at the Victoria University of Wellington marks the first attempt to quantify the global economic toll directly attributed to human-induced climate change. Its findings are nothing short of alarming, with the average annual cost from 2000 to 2019 amounting...
How floods in Libya have exposed the country’s human rights issues
As Storm Daniel tore through Eastern Libya, it reiterated the true threat of climate change. However, the many unavoidable deaths call into question the political and human rights issues that have been affecting the country for decades. After causing extensive flooding in Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey, Storm Daniel moved towards the coast of Libya. It caused two dams to burst in Derna, a port city in eastern Libya, resulting in unprecedented...
Climate change has displaced 43.1m children in six years
Just last week, UNICEF published a harrowing report highlighting the impacts of surging global temperatures and increasingly frequent extreme weather events on the victims most vulnerable to these unforgiving conditions between 2016 and 2021. Already vulnerable youth have become unwitting victims of a crisis they did not cause. This is according to UNICEF, which just last week published a harrowing report highlighting that climate change has displaced...
The scary truth about Halloween’s contribution to the climate crisis
As you might’ve guessed, our annual affinity with dressing up for spooky season is nothing short of an environmental nightmare. Turns out the waste we generate with throwaway costumes is even more frightening than the get-ups themselves. In 2019, Hubbub – a charity dedicated to inspiring ways of living that are good for the environment – disclosed a finding even more terrifying than the holiday we eagerly anticipate the moment...
