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Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its… pic.twitter.com/YVXwnwVBQO…

Ocean Warming Has Doubled in Past 20 Years: EU Copernicus Report

According to the latest Ocean State Report (OSR 8) from EU Copernicus, the world’s oceans are experiencing rapid warming, increasing acidification, more marine heat waves and more algal blooms in recent years compared to previous decades. In particular, the report…

Ph and Bangladesh Envi NGOs Forge Cooperation to Tackle Toxic Chemicals in Toys and Kids’ Products in the Region Asian children are increasingly at risk from unsafe toys, including those made from recycled plastics that contain hazardous chemicals and legacy compounds…

Nobel Laureate in Physics 2024 John Hopfield and the dangers of unchecked AI.

U.S. scientist John Hopfield, recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has issued a troubling warning about the rapid advances in this technology. Hopfield, professor emeritus at Princeton University,…

100-Year-Old Jimmy Carter Shows Us What Courage Looks Like on Israel-Palestine

As we celebrate and reflect on Carter’s life and legacy, let us amplify his call for the U.S. to be a genuine force for peace and justice around the world. By Mustafa Barghouti Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the…

Sowing the Seeds: Cultivating Solutions in the Fight Against Climate Change

Bengaluru Declaration Unites Leaders and Communities for Innovative Organic Waste Management Strategies   Bangalore, India — 08 October 2024 – At the First Congress on Organics and Climate, an ambitious vision for the future of climate action and waste management took root, culminating…

Open letter from Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis to the judges of the International Criminal Court

On October 7, Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis appealed to the International Criminal Court to do its duty. To uphold international law by prosecuting self-evident war crimes in Israel-Palestine, lest genocide becomes normalised across the world. Dear judges of the…

A Year Of Reckoning

The year since Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s retaliation have demonstrated once again that neither has learned anything from decades of horrific violence as they continue to miscalculate each other’s intentions and resolve By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir…

Undercounting Deaths in Gaza While Claiming It’s the Worst War Ever

We generally accept that if you do a census and only count the people who answer their doors you miss some people, and that you can calculate an estimate that reliably gets closer to reality than the list of people…

Can You Afford Climate Change?

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented climate change is happening on a regular basis and clobbering…

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