The Walker Corporation’s Toondah Harbor development would de-list over 67 hectares of land and water around Moreton Bay in Australia, threatening endangered species and indigenous sites, according to reports by the Earth Island Journal and the Guardian. The Toondah Harbor project would result in 3,600 apartments, hotels, shopping areas, and…
Due to COVID-19, recycling programs in many bigger cities have ceased. Because the recycling process is hands-on and involves multiple processing steps, many recycling centers have either shutdown or significantly reduced operations to avoid cross-contamination cases. But with pollution already being one of the most pressing public concerns of this…
In the 1990s Walter Schramm, a Delaware resident, invested in Amazon stock. As the stock’s value grew, Schramm left his Amazon investment alone only to learn in 2015 that it had been escheated by the state of Delaware in 2008. As NPR’s Audrey Quinn explained, escheatment occurs “when a state…
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“Pro-police advocates push a narrative that policing can’t be racist when there are Black officers on the force,” Bree Newsome Bass writes in an article published by the Black Agenda Report. Bass reports that cities across the US have systematically used Black leaders to oppress and disarm protesters during a…
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An October 2020 Guardian article reported that West Cumbria Mining will open “the UK’s first new deep coalmine in 30 years” after local government officials approved the company’s plans, and despite the protests of Extinction Rebellion and other climate campaigners, who have argued that “the new coalmine, which will reportedly…
In November 2020, ColorLines reported the results of a study that found that women of color who are survivors of sexual violence have faced disproportionate hardships compared to whites during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, “Measuring the Economic Impact of Covid-19 on Survivors of Color”, conducted in partnership with the…
In the January/ February 2021 issue of the Texas Observer, reporter Lise Olsen investigated the growing backlog of homicide cases in Texas and its impact on the state’s communities. This is part of an ongoing, national “cold case crisis” with growing numbers of unsolved murders across the country. Tom McAndrew,…
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A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Desert Sun shows that California state regulators have allowed over two dozen inland oil spills—“surface expressions” caused by fracking—to occur despite a ban on the practice in 2019. Despite being fined by regulators, oil companies continue to profit from oil that is refined,…
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For thousands of years of human agriculture, farmers freely exchanged and shared seeds. Today, four corporations control the majority of the world’s seeds. These staggering monopolies dominate the global food supply. Two of these corporations, Bayer and Corteva, are major producers of genetically modified (GM) and bioengineered seeds, and they claim…
“Our search for functional immunity to Sars-Cov-2 is less a biological quandary than a psychological one,” Angela Rasmussen wrote in the Guardian in November 2020. “[I]t is tempting to think that this virus is an ultra-virulent pathogen unlike others we have seen,” Rasmussen wrote, but in fact “it is our…
