[:en]Latest News on the (never-ending) Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador case[:]
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[:en]Latest News on the (never-ending) Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador case[:]

[:en][by [Camila Rolando on CDCA.IT] Recap on the Texaco/Chevron disaster in Ecuadorian Amazon The Texaco company started oil drilling activities in Ecuadorian Amazon in 1964 and continued up to 1994. Thrilled by the promises of dollars, Ecuadorian State’s representatives and decision-makers welcomed Texaco to the country. The arrangements between the national State and the transnational company were with no consultation or concern...

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[:en]Undisciplined Environments: ENTITLE conference full program[:]
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[:en]Undisciplined Environments: ENTITLE conference full program[:]

[:en][by entitlefellows] A compilation of panels and workshops that have open calls for contributions to the Undisciplined Environments international political ecology conference (Stockholm, March 20-23, 2016). The International political ecology conference UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS will be held in Stockholm, 20-23 March 2016. The Conference is organized by the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), the Centre for Social...

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[:en]Agip’s Azuzuama tragedy[:]
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[:en]Agip’s Azuzuama tragedy[:]

[:en]The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) through field monitoring has recorded the death of 14 persons while several others were burnt along Agip’s Tebidabe? Clough Creek pipeline at a damaged section of the pipeline during a Joint Investigation Visit (JIV). It has conducted field visits to the sites and documented the tragic incident which occurred on the 9th July 2015. Such incidence is not...

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[:en]India: 200,000 refugees in Assam’s devastating floods[:]
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[:en]India: 200,000 refugees in Assam’s devastating floods[:]

[:en][by Sneha Krishnan on theecologist.org] India’s tea capital, Assam, has been hit by devastating floods for the second time in three years, writes Sneha Krishnan. But the government has failed to address key environmental issues like deforestation and soil conservation, or involve local communities in developing solutions. So ever more fertile land is lost to erosion, and millions of the country’s poorest people...

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[:en]No water: life in California’s drought valley[:]
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[:en]No water: life in California’s drought valley[:]

[:en][of Julia Lurie on theguardian.com] Glance at a lawn in East Porterville, California, and you’ll instantly know something about the people who live in the house adjacent to it. If a lawn is green, the home has running water. If it’s brown, or if the yard contains plastic tanks or crates of bottled water, then the well has gone dry.   Residents of these homes rely on deliveries of bottled water, or perhaps a hose connected to...

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[:en]Global warming contributed to Syria’s 2011 uprising, scientists claim[:]
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[:en]Global warming contributed to Syria’s 2011 uprising, scientists claim[:]

[:en][by Ian Sample on theguardian.com] US study claims regime’s unsustainable agricultural policies meant drought led to collapse of farming in north-eastern region and triggered mass migration to cities and added to feelings of discontent.   The prolonged and devastating drought that sparked the mass migration of rural workers into Syrian cities before the 2011 uprising was probably made worse by greenhouse gas emissions, US...

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