By Homaira Kabir It’s easy to get frustrated by others. It’s easier still to get frustrated by people we are close to, because we believe they should know what we want. We believe they should have the same values and motivations that we do. And when things get rough, we believe they should be as eager to fix them as we may be —then we get disappointed when they aren’t. The reality is that human relationships lie at the intersection
A recent study underscores how human-caused global warming could annihilate life through co-extinction of species. PIYASET / SHUTTERSTOCK BY Dahr Jamail, Truthout, PUBLISHED November 20, 2018 A recently published study has found that “[c]limate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate.” The study, “Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change,”
Sam Cawthorn fell asleep at the wheel, crashed into a semi-truck and was pronounced dead. He was resuscitated, but lost his arm and had debilitating injuries—in fact, doctors told him he would never walk again. Not only did Sam walk again, but he can even play guitar. In this motivating video, he discusses three ways that he finds happiness every day and how you can, too.
A new study produced by Greenpeace and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shows that climate change is catalysing glacial disasters in some of the headwaters of Asia’s largest rivers, reports Caixin. In October, glacial melt spurred ice avalanches that blocked the Yarlung Zangbo River, forcing 20,000 people to evacuate. This is just one of many recent events. With increasing frequency, glacial melt has caused lakes to form, which then burst, resulting
Construction projects in Jingzhou, a Yangtze River town in Hubei province, have been stopped following the death of 36 Chinese sturgeons. A joint investigation team drawn from multiple provincial government departments has been stationed in Jingzhou, reports thepaper.cn. Since September 2017 the construction of Jingzhou Eco-cultural Tourist Area, which borders a national aquatic resources protection area, has wreaked havoc on a sturgeon
Earlier this month China, Russia and Norway blocked the establishment of a 3.2 million square kilometre marine reserve in the Antarctic Ocean. In an analysis piece for the Paper, senior lecturer in law at Adelaide University, Dr Liu Nengye, offers three reasons why China blocked the reserve. Firstly, he notes, China holds misgivings about the current sovereignty claims over Antarctica, which were frozen in the 1961 Antarctic Treaty, to
The fishing company responsible for an illegal haul of thousands of shark carcasses in the Galapagos Islands Marine Reserve has been identified, a year after 20 Chinese fishing crew were arrested there. In an interview with Caixin, one of the imprisoned crew from the refrigerated storage vessel Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 claimed that the carcasses on board were caught by Fuzhou Honglong Ocean Fishery Company and exposed the company’s cover story,
image: Fernando Flores 16 Nov by Fermín Koop For 12 days from today, representatives from more than 190 countries will gather in Egypt to explore how to better protect biodiversity, currently facing grave threats from human activity. The UN Biodiversity Conference, also known as the Conference of the Parties (COP14), is held every two years. It oversees the Convention on Biological Diversity
by Manipadma Jena | Nov 16, 2018 As India grapples with high levels of air pollution, especially of particulate matter and noxious gases, latest research indicates that even unborn babies are not spared its ill effects Women in Mangaljodi village in eastern India return with headloads of dry eucalyptus leaves for cooking from Forest Department plantations (Photo by Manipadma Jena) Air pollution seems to affect unborn girls
The director of India’s National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, M Ravichandran, speaks to thethirdpole.net on India’s experiences and hopes from research in the polar regions Iceberg off the Antarctica coast [Image by: National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India] Omair Ahmad, November 19, 2018 At the sidelines of a conference jointly organised by the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences, the Norwegian Embassy, and the European Union
