Scientists are tracing the path of Sars-CoV-2 from a wild animal host – but we need to look at the part played in the outbreak by industrial food production
Where did the virus causing the current pandemic come from? How did it get to a food market in Wuhan, China, from where it is thought to have spilled over into humans? The answers to these questions are gradually being pieced together, and the story they tell makes for uncomfortable reading.
170 Dutch academics sign manifesto for sustainable, equal and diverse societies based on international solidarity
The following statement, signed by 170 academics from eight universities in the Netherlands, has been widely reported in the Dutch press, becoming a focus for discussion on how to avoid repeating past mistakes when in planning for the future.
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration
Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to weaken and delay environmental protections.
The only way to stop the next deadly pandemic to emerge directly out of livestock or poultry or indirectly out of wild animals subjected to Big Ag-driven deforestation is to end capitalist agribusiness as we know it.
From: Patrick Bond Date: April 8, 2020 at 12:33:48 PM PDT Subject:Thanks to musician John Prine - critic of King Coal in Kentucky; victim of Coronavirus
Union of BC Indian Chiefs calls for Coastal GasLink to halt work to reduce COVID-19 threat.
Amanda Follett Hosgood is the Tyee’s northern BC reporter. She lives amidst the stunning mountains and rivers of Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett.
Friday this week (April 3) at 4:00 pm PDT Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Dsta'Hyl (Adam Gagnon) and Michael Sawyer will be conducting the first in a series of Webinars about the fracked LNG Industry and its true environmental, economic and social costs. This Webinar is entitled
