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Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor… more

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Easy come, easy go.
Top banks abandon their climate pledges.
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Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch
‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure
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Study shows ageing can be reversed in primates.
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real.
This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it checks out: for the first time ever, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now ranked as t...
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Not a part of her journey, really, but how - through difficult times - she combined scientific rigor, political activism, deep empathy, sound judgment, and staunch integrity into a rich life well-lived.
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Jessica William @jessicawilliami.bsky.social · 5d
Wow, Jane Goodall is such an icon; her dedication to animals and the planet is honestly beyond inspiring. 💚 It's amazing to see people like her still making such a huge impact!
What part of her journey inspires you the most?

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Reagan-appointed judge Judge William Young of the Federal District Court in Boston opens his verdict with a post card he received in June, while Trump was having his big military parade in Washington DC.

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Wow, Jane Goodall is such an icon; her dedication to animals and the planet is honestly beyond inspiring. 💚 It's amazing to see people like her still making such a huge impact!
What part of her journey inspires you the most?

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Jane Goodall.
An inspiring Life.
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Jane Goodall Dies at 91, Leaving a 'Legacy of Making Our Planet a Better Place' | Common Dreams
Legendary English conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall died Wednesday at the age of 91, eliciting a flood of remembrances from fellow scientists, activists, politicians, and fans of her de...
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Deforestation, herbicides, and pesticides:
how soy bean cultivation for meat and fish production is decimating the Amazon.
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How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon
Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness
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A detailed inside look at Jeffrey Epstein daylight activities.
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NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement
Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails...
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The effects of US aid cuts: billions wasted plus massive harm among former beneficiaries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | The Lives and Money We Are Wasting
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Perhaps some fossil fuels must stay in the ground.
But every last bit of OUR fossil fuels must be extracted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
So say they all.
How Norway Adopted New Tech in Its Hunt for ‘Missing’ Oil
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 15d
Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms:

· Lockheed Martin ($313 billion)
· RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion)
· Boeing ($115 billion)
· General Dynamics ($116 billion) and
· Northrop Grumman ($81 billion)
Chart from the report, Profits of War:Top Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending, 2020 – 2024
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Record wildfire smoke kills more people each year (over 40,000) than car crashes. It’s about to get worse.
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But limos, private jets, yachts, & penthouses are equipped to protect the wealthy.
See where wildfire smoke is getting worse in the U.S.
The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.
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Trump's tax hike on universities is beginning to bite.
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Yale considering reduction in graduate student enrollment, professors say
In light of the recent endowment tax hike, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is considering a 12 percent decrease in graduate student enrollment in the humanities and social sciences over the n...
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US electricity generation by source (NT Times). Not much change in the fossil-fuel burn over 25 years.
(And it's trillion kWh, not billion, 12,000 kWh per person.)
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Due to land use change (deforestation & expansion of agriculture & livestock farming), the Amazon now emits more greenhouse gases than all but 7 countries (China, US, India, Russia, Indonesia, Iran, Japan).
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Amazônia brasileira emite mais carbono que 186 países-membros da ONU
Por conta do desmatamento e da expansão da agropecuária, a Amazônia emite mais gases de efeito estufa do que quase todos os países que estarão na COP30. Só sete nações a superam: China, Estados Unidos...
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