Environment

By Brahma Chellaney | (Project Syndicate) | – – BERLIN – Nowhere is freshwater scarcer than in the Arab world. The region is home to most of the world’s poorest states or territories in terms of water resources, including Bahrain, Djibouti, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. This shortage […]

Climate Change

Maybe Oil was a bad Idea: Temps in Mideast Beat Heat Records for E. Hemisphere

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By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | Commondreams.org ) – – “I’ve never seen Celsius temps like these on a weather map before,” climate scientist Michael Mann said on Twitter. Thermometers in Kuwait and Iraq reached record-shattering temperatures this week, with Weather Underground reporting that the measurements could be the hottest ever seen in the Eastern […]

Climate Change

Why we’re addicted to Fatal Oil, even when Costlier than Solar

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Here’s the good news: wind power, solar power, and other renewable forms of energy are expanding far more quickly than anyone expected, ensuring that these systems will provide an ever-increasing share of our future energy supply. According to the most recent projections from the […]

Acidification of Oceans

In Rejecting Carbon Tax HR Clinton is playing Russian Roulette with our Future

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Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | – – The Clinton presidential campaign has indicated that it will not support a carbon tax. But we simply cannot meet greenhouse gas reduction goals without a price on carbon. How can we take Secretary Clinton’s commitment to climate action seriously if she rejects carbon pricing outright? Clinton’s negligence […]

Climate Change

Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival

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By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – [This essay is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books).] In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The […]

Israel/ Palestine

Under Israeli Blockade and Running out of Water, Gaza turns to Solar

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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 […]