Category Climate change

Major rivers are drying up

“Rivers regularly no longer reach the sea, like the Indus in Pakistan, the Nile in Africa and the Rio Grande … There are millions of people whose livelihoods are at risk,” said Jamie Pittock, director of WWF’s global freshwater programme.…

The glaciers of Patagonia retreat

Passive and defenseless victims of global warming, the Patagonian mountain glaciers find themselves currently in full retreat. Many of them, particularly the smallest and most vulnerable, are even facing a definitive and irreversible end: their fast disappearance, a process that…

Green Lefts:Left Greens

From my comrade Dave Riley in Australia comes his latest, Green Left:Left Greens GreenLefts:LeftGreens is an Australian based hub that aggregates resources on the environment from a green left and a left green perspective. That makes three of us now;…