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Ecological, social and and economic justice. Publishing since 1970.
- How the citizens of Zenica, one of Europe’s most polluted cities, came together to fight against a polluting steelworks.
- ‘Poisonous black smoke bellowing from the chimneys of the coking plant in Zenica’. The fight for justice against polluters rages on in the steel-centric economy of Bosnia-Herzgovinia | J P O’Malley
- The flawed assumptions of modernity that have led to ecological crisis in our time, writes Jhon Kwano, an elder from the Lani tribe in the highlands of New Guinea.
- "Bombs release heavy metals that linger in the dust, affecting plants and potentially contaminating water and air through aerosols.” | @amelied.bsky.social
- The Caspian Sea, once a bounty of clean water and fish, is shrinking due to climate breakdown and human activities. It's an ecological disaster and a human disaster in the making. theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
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- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- Farewell to the Caspian Sea | Clément Girardot theecologist.org/2024/dec/19/...
- “Ten years ago, we could see the water from the roof of this building. Now, the shoreline is 20 km away.” The people and wildlife who depend on the Caspian Sea have been left floundering by falling water levels.
- Bosnia-Herzegovina has the highest number of deaths caused by air pollution in Europe - and its steel industry may be to blame. | J P O’Malley
- Fancy a tipple? So do our close animal cousins, the chimpanzees.
- Queer Ecology shows us a world “that is at once primordial and futuristic, in which gender is kaleidoscopic, sexualities are multiple, and the categories of male and female are fluid and transmutable. A world, in short, exactly like the one we inhabit.” | Kara Moses
- Our children will inherit the consequences of today’s environmental decisions. What can parents do to prepare them? | @alorenzen.bsky.social
- The reconstruction of post-war Bosnia saw “global capital move in, public property devalued, and international corporations allowed to buy up [state assets] for peanuts,” | J P O’Malley
- While UK shoppers pay 50 per cent more for some chocolate products this Easter, farmers living in poverty at the other end of the supply chain are getting little financial benefit at the farm gate. | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- The environmental crisis in the Caspian Sea could displace up to five million people by mid-century.
- Love getting merry? It's a trait humans share with some of our fellow members of the animal kingdom
- As the climate heats up, cocoa farmers in West Africa are seeing their crop yields fall year on year. | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- Cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast are facing down the impacts of a climate crisis and a brutal marketplace. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
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View full thread‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- ‘All the cocoa trees will be destroyed’. theecologist.org/2025/may/12/... | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- 'As we navigate the complexities of climate policy, environmental degradation, and eco-anxiety, our conversations with our children today are crucial.' | @alorenzen.bsky.social
- Researchers in Guinea-Bissau’s Cantanhez National Park have recorded footage of chimps sharing fermented African breadfruit.
- “In the short term, it’s a major ecological crisis with no way out. The biggest catastrophe would be an accident on an oil platform. We have no assurance that a ship could intervene quickly because of the drop in sea level.”
- This article was made possible by the Ecologist Writers' Fund. Please donate now to support independent climate journalism. resurgence.enthuse.com/writersfund#!/
- "Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and lithium can persist for centuries, contaminating water, soil and air" | @amelied.bsky.social
- How do you raise a generation of kids who will inherit a world on fire? | @alorenzen.bsky.social
- “My farm was finished,” he said. “And this is my only farm. This is my only source of revenue for me and my family.” | @rebeccasc.bsky.social
- “Solar power is expanding across the global south, growing faster in China, India and Brazil than in older, richer solar developers like the US, Japan and Germany.” | @simonpirani.bsky.social
- "If not managed properly, solar panel and battery waste could lead to a long-term toxic crisis. Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and lithium can persist for centuries, contaminating water, soil and air." | @amelied.bsky.social
- "New canal swimming spots have faced temporary closure due to bacteria detection: if $1.5 billion cannot make the Seine safe for swimming, is this an instance of money being just washed down the river?"
- “By acknowledging the flaws in our modern worldview and adopting a more holistic and spiritually grounded perspective, we can work towards creating a more sustainable, regenerative and harmonious future for all beings on Earth.” | Jhon Kwan
- “Homosexuality in the animal world has long been dismissed, erased or, where acknowledged, portrayed as a curious aberration rather than a valid part of a species’ behaviour, culture and reproductive strategy.”
- The Spanish far right has been quick to jump on the blackout as proof net zero will create chaos. @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social
- The flawed ecological assumptions of modernity have led to ecological crisis in our time. | Jhon Kwano
- "Claims that market forces, without state support, can drive a transition to renewables have always been overblown – but in 2022-23, they jolted rooftop solar forward in parts of the global south.” @simonpirani.bsky.social
- Queer ecology 'invites critical scrutiny of norms, binary distinctions, hierarchies, and power dynamics,' writes Kara Moses
