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Cyclone Senyar was rare for Sumatra, but its devastation wasn’t just about weather.

Decades of deforestation, mining, plantations and peat drainage weakened watersheds, while urban expansion into floodplains has turned extreme rain into recurring disaster risk.
Sumatra’s ‘natural’ disaster wasn’t natural: How deforestation turned a rare cyclone catastrophic
Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare meteorological event. Cyclone Senyar formed in the Malacca Strait, an area where the…
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December 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The IDF executed two Palestinian men in Jenin. They verified that they were unarmed, told them to walk back to the building, and then shot them dead.
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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My new video…
Chat on Today’s Dire Droughts in many Middle East Countries with Connections to AMOC and 4.2ka Event
youtu.be/qqf12jDwdNM?...

#climate #ClimateAction #ClimateScience #oceans #Arctic #OceanScience #atmosphere #weather
Chat on Today’s Dire Droughts in many Middle East Countries with Connections to AMOC and 4.2k Event
YouTube video by Paul Beckwith
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November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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For the Kaska Dena, it’s a moment decades in the making. They’ve proposed a four-million hectare Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area called Dene K’éh Kusān. Now, they’re hoping B.C. will formally recognize it. via @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social : thenarwhal.ca/bc-qa-gillia...
Kaska Nation sees hope for IPCA as northwest B.C. land-use planning gets underway | The Narwhal
The Narwhal sat down with land stewardship director Gillian Staveley to talk about the Kaska’s proposed Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area
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June 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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🚨BREAKING: 8 out of 10 surveyed around the world think that polluters - not the people - should pay for climate damages.
That’s an OVERWHELMING majority saying - it’s time to make polluters pay.

Sign the Polluters Pay Pact today 👇
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Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.
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June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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May 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Look at this absolutely chilling compilation. What era of history does this remind you of?
zeteo.com Zeteo @zeteo.com · Jun 3
This Israeli TV Channel has literally been inciting “genocide” onto thousands of screens.

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's story:
zeteo.com/p/inside-the...
June 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This is great!
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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NGOs in Indonesia have documented widespread environmental and social violations across 33 industrial tree plantations since 2023, including deforestation, peatland destruction, fires, and land conflicts with Indigenous communities.
Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations
JAKARTA — Industrial plantations of trees to make paper and wood pellets are causing widespread and persistent environmental and social violations in Indonesia, despite claims to the contrary by the…
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May 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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One of the highlights of this year was co-hosting a keynote lecture by the magnificent Sherene Seikaly, titled "Palestine as Paradigm."

I am so honoured to be able to share it with you all. Take some time with it. Her message has never been more urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0A...
Palestine as Paradigm: A Keynote Lecture by Sherene Seikaly | Long Arc of Fascism Conference
YouTube video by CCMS SFU
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May 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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"The worst attack [overnight] was on a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, which killed at least 30 people. The victims include mostly children who were burned to death"
May 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

Right now Australia is walking past this, tutting a little, but taking absolutely sweet FA action to apply consequences on Israel for this barbarity.

How about it @albomp.bsky.social ?
British surgeon Dr Victoria Rose on BBC News

"Children in Gaza are so malnourished that they're actually wasting away"

"It's shocking to see this degree of malnutrition"

"And it's because of Israel's blockade"
May 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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In Indonesia, many hoped the new 2024 conservation law would recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples to manage their lands; instead, the law continues to sideline communities and potentially criminalizes their traditional practices.
Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law
JAKARTA — For years, Mikael Ane, an Indigenous farmer from the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, has faced prison not for harming the environment, but for trying to protect his ancestral land.…
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May 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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A German supermarket and its supplier are under fire for alleged human right violations against Indigenous communities in Guatemala, where much of their palm oil is sourced.

When residents complained, law enforcement allegedly used force to quiet protests.
German supermarket palm oil linked to Indigenous rights abuses in Guatemala
A German supermarket and its supplier are under fire for alleged human right violations against Indigenous communities in Guatemala, where much of their palm oil is sourced. Since 2019, human rights…
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May 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.
Israeli military begins ‘extensive’ ground operation as 135 killed in Gaza
Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.
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May 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Our report on the Rumah Jeffrey indigenous community in Sarawak, Malaysia holds a broader lesson that applies across many other countries with high deforestation:

Protecting climate-critical forests requires respecting the rights of forest-dependent communities living sustainably in their forests.
Deforestation and illegal evictions threaten Malaysia's Indigenous peoples
A new Human Rights Watch report details the illegal evictions and deforestation that threatens the way of life for Malaysia's Indigenous peoples.
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May 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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A wild carbon credit boondoggle in which Chevron bought credits for a project on Indigenous land that residents didn't (and still don't) know anything about, painstakingly documented by the great Andres Bermudez-Lievano @elclip.bsky.social @mongabaylatam.bsky.social

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In Colombia, Chevron has a habit of buying carbon credits from projects made behind indigenous people’s backs.
Leaders of the Cotuhé Putumayo indigenous reservation, in the Colombian Amazon, say that they do not know about the carbon credit project taking place in their land, which has sold more than 3 million...
drilled.media
May 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Some grasslands that should not be underrated: Nebraska Sandhills in October; Xilingol Grassland, Inner Mongolia, in June; high elevation grassland in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming, July; grassland in northern Cameroon, May, near the end of the dry season.
May 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
April 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Kash Patel has deleted this post on X, but arrest is confirmed: www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...
The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.
April 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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And from the article “It’s like a bomb,” Brancalion told me. “You can come interview me in five, six years. You don’t have to be super smart to realize what will happen after planting too many eucalyptus in a dry region.” That's right, Apple is planting carbon bombs.
April 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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“We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings." 🌎

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, 2025 #GoldmanPrize winner from Peru, shares her story with @insideclimatenews.org. @katiesurma.bsky.social
Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River - Inside Climate News
“We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, everything in nature has...
insideclimatenews.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Badar Khan Suri, an Indian postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, never imagined that the United States, a country with a Scholars at Risk program, would one day imprison scholars — excellent essay by Nader Hashemi in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
newlinesmag.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM