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  1. Palestine: How Israeli occupation trashes the environment

    contaminating arable land with garbage, draining aquifers of water and denying Palestinians the ability to ... develop sustainably. Water The apartheid practices of the state of Israel restrict day-to-day access to ... water for Palestinians. A 2013 report by Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq shows that water ...

  2. Letter from the US: California's drought highlights global warming's danger

    never seen anything like it. There is only one year's worth of water left in the state's ... reservoirs. That groundwater also is in danger Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at the NASA Jet ... supply water in the summer, was between 16% and 22% of normal levels. Big business Agriculture is big ...

  3. NT gas pipeline will lock in climate pollution for decades, say campaigners

    proposals include some positive steps, such as making mining and petroleum operations subject to the Water ... pointing out that he sits on the board of Icon Water, which, along with the board of Jemena, manages a gas ... what happens when water is poisoned. He told the meeting: 鈥淲e're already dealing with ...

  4. Community takes on New Hope Coal in Land Court

    water and the destruction of prime agricultural land. "We've got grass, we've got cattle, ... but without water coming out of the ground we can't provide the cattle with water,鈥 he said. ...

  5. BP's Great Australian Bight oil drilling plans rejected

    said: 鈥淏P wants to drill for oil in the pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight and submitted an ... climate change. 鈥淲e should not be opening up new oil precincts in pristine waters when we are hurtling ...

  6. Great Barrier Reef win, coal seam gas loss

    to ensure areas of ecological significance and water quality are protected and sediment is ... dumped in Reef waters,鈥 she said. Less than a week later, on November 16, Queensland Premier Annastacia ... agricultural and pastoral activity, has a severe impact on the water table, reducing bore water in quality and ...

  7. Climate justice means supporting refugees

    about 10,000 people, is not expected to last long above water. The people of the Carteret Islands are ... change will lead to an increase in armed conflicts over scarce food and fresh water. Syria is an example ... fresh water and food, played a part in the initial 2011 uprisings against the government. According to ...

  8. Enemy of Big Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa showed power of resistance

    Africa, the Ogoni people consume contaminated water containing known cancer-causing agents in lethal ... over. But instead their blood watered the seeds of the revolution in Ogoniland. Not one drop of oil has ...

  9. A World to Win What will it take to stop climate change?

    equivalent of throwing a bucket of water on a house fire. What does it matter if Apple plants a few acres of ...

  10. Cuba's ecological farming revolution shows a different path

    a limit to the land and water it could use to grow food.鈥 Noting similar crises are starting to hit much ...

  11. The West's terror hypocrisy: who is the biggest threat?

    millions of tonnes of flowers to Europe. Unsustainable use of land and water through monoculture is just ...