Today president Trump will meet with president Putin in Alaska. This meeting is planned with the aim of launching talks to end the conflict in Ukraine. Perhaps it’s an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the willingness of the USA and Russia…

It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…

Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are…

Watchdog Group Lists 48 Skin Lightening Products Adulterated With Mercury 15 August 2025, Quezon City.  As the eighth anniversary of the global entry into force of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is observed on August 16, the toxics watchdog group…

Geneva, Switzerland– Demonstrating strong unity, Global South Member States and Civil Society called for ambitious, legally binding global measures to curb plastic production, in a media briefing on the closing day of the second part of the fifth session of…

The future is not in pipes; it is in sovereignty. And Chile has yet to take control. How much is green hydrogen worth and who controls it? Green hydrogen is not just an energy solution. It is a global financial…

For a few seconds, my imagination staged a surreal scene: a gray, fortified building in the middle of the ice, with the flags of Russia and the United States flying side by side, as if the Cold War had ended…

This coming Sunday, August 17, at 10:00 a.m., at the Haifa enlistment camp, Yona Roseman, a 19-year-old from Haifa, will refuse to enlist in protest against the genocide in Gaza, and will probably be tried and sent to prison. Activists…

Pakistan recently celebrated its 78th Independence Day, marking nearly eight decades since its inception. This period is comparable to the lifespan of an average human being—enough time to experience birth, growth, maturity, and decline. Similarly, Pakistan’s history has been a…

Communities and advocates rally against policies that would lock Asia into polluting energy projects and deepen climate inequities   Mandaluyong City, Philippines – 14 August 2025 – Today, environmental advocates and community members gathered outside the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters…