Mika Benoni Schroder
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Mika Benoni Schroder
@mikabenoni.bsky.social
writer & photographer // environmental politics & social justice // outdoor advocate // dog-mom // she/her
New article w. Arne Müller & Erland Segerstedt on recent SWE 🇸🇪 gov decisions that open up for prospecting & #mining in seven newly established #nature reserves in northern #Sweden & #Sápmi following appeals from #mining companies. Two more cases pending. Reach out for english: shorturl.at/SASdT
Gruvor på bekostnad av naturskydd – Sveriges Natur
De senaste åren har regeringen öppnat för att det ska vara möjligt att både leta efter mineraler och starta gruvor i särskilt skyddsvärda områden i norra Sverige. Detta är en ny typ av beslut där natu...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Important investigation linking up the clear-cutting of #forests with recent #landslides & #flooding experienced in northern Sweden 🇸🇪 which has caused serious damage to crucial #train and road infrastructure. The felling has been permitted even when risks were identified. shorturl.at/00sz4
#climate
Så kan avverkning ha påverkat raset
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September 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Snart är det val i Norge - som nyss annonserat en enorm ny oljefyndighet. Den kommer va med att accelerera jordens väg ut ur ”livets korridor”- temperaturspannet som säkert kan hålla civilisation. Utanför Stortinget sitter nu klimatministerns kusin och vägrar äta.
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Dag 28 utan mat: ”Det Norge gör måste uppmärksammas”
OSLO. Kroppen riskerar nu permanenta nervskador. Läkarna vill att han avbryter. Men klimataktivisten Vebjørn Bjelland Berg fortsätter sin hungerstrejk mot den n
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August 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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”Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided ’at all costs’. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.”
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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August 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"The global north has long dictated the terms of international forest policy, supporting stricter environmental standards on tropical nations while sidestepping accountability at home."

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Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections
Unsustainable logging is one of the global north’s best-kept secrets. We’re running out of time to stop it
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April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
For those who might need this today - here's a clip of Crinan Wood's dawn chorus in early May last year. The woods is a small fragment of Atlantic rainforest and is to me a constant reminder of how magical the world can be. @wtscotsocial.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The victims are believed to have been killed on 23 March, two of them in the early hours [...]. The remaining 13 were in a convoy of ambulances and civil defence vehicles dispatched to retrieve the bodies of their two colleagues. tinyurl.com/bde7jzuj
Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime
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April 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is such an important documentary (sadly no english subtitles yet) - reporters link threats & violence directed at witnesses to swedish-company Lundin Oils, whose previous chairman & CEO stands accused of grave violations of international law while operating in Sudan. shorturl.at/ZKhJh
Kalla fakta: Lundinfallet - Tysta alla vittnen
Streama Kalla fakta: Lundinfallet - Tysta alla vittnen direkt på webben och i våra appar. Se hela programmet och mycket mer på TV4 Play!
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March 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The European Commission has launched what it claims to be an “inclusive and collaborative” dialogue on the future of the EU steel industry, despite limiting civil society participation to trade unions and a single think tank ⬇️
Commission under fire for excluding NGOs from dialogue on steel
The European Commission has launched what it claims to be an “inclusive and collaborative” dialogue on the future of the EU steel industry, despite limiting civil society participation to trade unions...
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March 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“We are going to be writing every day in support and defence of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,“ Bezos said, adding that “viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others”

So much for journalistic independence @postopinions.bsky.social

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Bezos focuses Washington Post opinion pages on free markets and liberties
The move marks a major shift and prompted the outlet's opinion editor David Shipley to resign.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Ifjol var Sveriges overshoot day 21 april. I år är det 10 april. Det går åt fel håll. Om alla levde som vi i Sverige skulle det behövas fyra jordklot.

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Country Overshoot Day 2025 calendar
The Country Overshoot Day 2025 calendar shows the dates by which humanity would have used up everything Earth can renew for that year, if all people consumed at the level of that country.
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February 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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"When New Scientist asked explicitly if human-caused climate change played any role in the record high temperatures, the NOAA press representative abruptly ended the call, saying, “I’m not seeing any more on-topic questions from the media""
NOAA scientists refuse to link warming weather to climate change
In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided mentioning rising levels of greenhouse gases
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February 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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”Planeten sätter gränser som vi måste förhålla oss till. Det behöver inte vara dåligt, tvärtom kan det vara befriande”, säger forskaren Åsa Callmer.
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Forskare: Vi har lärt oss att lösa problem genom att konsumera
Klimatsmarta konsumtionsvanor är inte bara en vinst för miljön, det är också en vinst för måendet, menar forskaren Åsa Callmer.
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February 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Wrote a wee piece about @amnesty.org report illustrating how Sámi peoples #Indigenous #humanrights are threatened in relation to "green transition" projects in the Nordics 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇴. Is Sápmi becoming a "green sacrifice zone"? Reach out for english version, report is on Amnesty website! shorturl.at/NR8id
Rapport: Den gröna omställ­ningen hotar samers rättigheter
En ny rapport från Amnesty International visar hur det samiska folkets rättigheter ignoreras i samband med exploateringsprojekt i Sápmi, som regeringen menar ska bana väg för den gröna omställningen.
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February 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"In one generation, Sweden has become polyglot and cosmopolitan – but denial has met the wave of white supremacism sweeping the country. [...] For everyone in Sweden to feel safe and harmonious, the dehumanisation of immigrants as a group must also stop."
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Will any Swedish politician defend the group most terrorised by the Örebro gun massacre?
In one generation, Sweden has become polyglot and cosmopolitan – but denial has met the wave of white supremacism sweeping the country
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February 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM