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Adina Florea et al – To the Last Drop: Europe’s Hidden Water Crisis

April 14, 2025 Ben Wray 0

An investigation into groundwater mismanagement in Romania, Italy and Germany, which is causing droughts and other water shortage problems. Adina Florea is a freelance journalist specialising in labour migration, minority rights, and environmental issues in Eastern Europe. Antonia Gross […]

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Samuel Schlaefli – “A Landscape of Greed”: The Collapse of Denmark’s Fjords

March 31, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Denmark’s famous Fjords have been ecologically decimated by intensive pig-farming. Samuel Schlaefli is a freelance environmental and science journalist based in Switzerland. Cross-posted from Green European Journal The sky is grey over the fjord off […]

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Simon Holmström – Halting Deep-Sea Mining Can Reshape Resource Management

July 29, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Deep-sea mining is the latest frontier in extraction of natural resources for profit and growth, at the expense of sustainability. Another economic paradigm is possible. With a lifelong commitment to environmental activism and an MSc […]

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Costas Velis – A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production

May 6, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A UN global plastic treaty will not have teeth if it doesn’t take on the issue of plastic production, which continues to grow year-on-year. Costas Velis is lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems at the University […]

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Charity Migwi – Uniting for Change: Global Solidarity Against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

August 30, 2023 Ben Wray 0

French multinational TotalEnergies is leading the development of an oil pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania that will be a disaster for the region’s ecology and for the battle against climate change. Charity Migwi is an […]

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Tatyana Novikova – Rare Earth Mining: Sacrificing the Environment to Save the Planet?

August 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The EU Critical Raw Materials Act, supposedly motivated by concern over climate change, may perversely have been about overriding environmental regulations at the national level. Tatyana Novikova reports on issues of nuclear power and sustainable […]

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Ewa Leś: Odra Disaster, One Year On: Poland’s Rivers Still Need Saving

August 14, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Odra disaster is just one of many cases across Europe where exploitation of rivers is still prioritised over restoration. Ewa Leś is a biologist with a background in environmental law. Her work focuses on […]

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Ana Valdivia: Rural Spain could end up hosting infrastructure hubs for AI – here’s what the environmental cost could be

June 21, 2023 Ben Wray 0

In a country that is already suffering widespread drought, data centres which require huge amounts of water will intensify ecological pressures Ana Valdivia is lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the University of Oxford. […]

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Euronews – Air pollution: From Barcelona to Southampton, these are Europe’s worst cruise ports

June 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Cruise ships stopping in Barcelona’s port causes three times as much air pollution in the city than all the cars in Barcelona combined. Read the article HERE.

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Gael Camba – Mongolia: Emmanuel Macron supports controversial uranium mining during official visit

May 24, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The French President is trying to boost the country’s stake in Mongolian uranium mining, while paying little attention to the scandal of the contamination of the local population. In Euronews. Read the article HERE.

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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