Environment

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “People are struggling to find clean drinking water in Gaza, but one resident has a solution. Fayez al-Hindi has built a solar power system to purify water. According to municipalities, it’s working.” AJ+: ” In Gaza, One Man Wields Solar Power To Purify Water”

Egypt

Nile Valley Water Conflict: Can Egypt live with Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam?

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By Dale Whittington | (The Conversation) | – – The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, under construction on the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian-Sudanese border, is now approximately 50% complete. Initial filling will start this year and will begin in earnest in 2017. The idea of a dam on the Nile in Ethiopia – […]

Climate Change

Crisis and Climate Change Driving Unprecedented Migration

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By Manipadma Jena | (Inter Press Service) | – – Manipadma Jena interviews the director general of the International Organization for Migration, Wiliam Lacy Swing. Owing to demographic drivers, countries are going to become more multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious, says William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organisation for Migration. NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 6 […]

Bernie Sanders

Will Fracking & the Environment decide Californians between Clinton and Sanders?

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TeleSur _ – – California is in its fifth year of a severe drought. While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lied to a crowd in Fresno on May 27 declaring that there was no drought in the Golden State, the U.S. Geological Survey report indicates that the state is still in a drought based on […]

Denialism

Not the Onion: Trump: ‘No California Drought & I will Solve it’

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TeleSur | – – The presumptive GOP nominee told supporters in Fresno, California on Friday that he does not believe the state is currently facing drought-like conditions. During an electoral campaign speech on Friday, Republican presumptive presidential candidate Donald Trump told California voters that he can solve the state’s water crisis by simply declaring “there […]

Climate Change

Trump accepts Climate Change threat . . . to his Golf Course

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By Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | ( The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump has said that he believes climate change is a hoax. That contradicts his company’s filing in Ireland, to build a sea wall to protect his golf resort, from rising sea levels caused by climate change. Cenk Uygur […]

Acidification of Oceans

The Hottest Year on Record: 12th month in a row of unprecedented heat

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | – – “The planet keeps getting warmer. The level of destruction from natural disasters is also climbing. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.. . “For the 12th month in a row, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced record-high global temperatures — marking […]

Pollution

Michael Moore Says Flint Water Crisis Is a Racist ‘Hate Crime’

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TeleSur | – – Filmmaker Michael Moore calls the Flint water crisis an issue of racism, as the mostly Black and poor residents of the town will now be faced with expensive water bills. American filmmaker and author Michael Moore appeared on the show Real Time With Bill Maher and called the Flint water crisis […]

Climate Change

Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence

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By Simon Albert, Alistair Grinham, Badin Gibbes, Javier Leon, & John Church | (The Conversation) | – – Sea-level rise, erosion and coastal flooding are some of the greatest challenges facing humanity from climate change. Recently at least five reef islands in the remote Solomon Islands have been lost completely to sea-level rise and coastal […]