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April 30, 2021. David Brown, University of Warwick. If we are to limit the most profound impacts of the climate crisis, it is well-recognised that we need globally-coordinated, bold and unprecedented action on climate change and an energy transition away from fossil fuels.
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Toxic News online magazine is a forum for discussions about toxics in everyday life. We aim to bring together a wide range of stories, cases, and perspectives about toxics, from researchers, activists, writers, and artists.
‘Critical’ Minerals and the Politics of Refusal – Toxic News
Apr 30, 2021 · A quiet struggle has been playing out in Ontario’s far north as a wave of Indigenous cultural and political resurgence collides with a renewed push to extend the extractive frontier into the vast, swampy boreal forest.
In search of environmental justice and possible futures for the ...
Nov 17, 2020 · We analyzed how the many senses and meanings around pollution, toxicity, harm to health and environmental impact given to Flammable by several powerful actors performed as a “labor of confusion” linked to the social production of toxic uncertainty, deceit and denial.
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Is Tap Water in China Safe to Drink? A Water Quality ... - Toxic News
Nov 1, 2018 · Access to safe and clean water is essential to human health. However, public concern over drinking water safety has risen sharply in recent years following a number of water pollution incidents. The pollution incidents have left people wonder if it …
Whose Carbon Footprint Matters? - Toxic News
Aug 7, 2017 · The atmosphere of emissions is seen as millions of particles that can all be traced back to one atomized agent – the consumer and his/her footprint. Thus, in this vision, the ultimate villain is a greedy consumer: the prototypical example might be the suburbanite Hummer driver.
With the launch of Toxic News, we seek to address these gaps in toxic news, not only in terms of what is reported, but in terms of our analytical focus. Just what is toxic, and how can we measure toxic effects on health and the environment? How are toxic effects experienced in different places and times, and for different people?
Coal Mining: Ecological and Environmental Disasters in China
Aug 3, 2016 · Large scale coal mine excavation—which constituted 3.97 billion tons in 2013—has caused serious ecological damage in rural China, with the most severe situation occurring in Shanxi Province. Abandoned village due to coal mining in …
The challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis for human-animal …
Jun 19, 2020 · Nickie Charles – Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick [email protected] According to Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, the COVID-19 pandemic ‘is a direct warning that nature can take no more’ and that ‘humanity’s destruction of nature’ must stop (Andersen, 2020).