India's forests are disappearing. Since the BJP government came into power, 1.45 lakh hectares of forest land has been diverted, 62% of it for mining. This diversion significantly impacts Adivasi women who collect most of the minor forest produce that runs their households

Soil Health is on the Agenda! Here's what @ca4sh_global is messaging next week: 1) Collaboration & partnership 2) Generation & leveraging of evidence to inform decision making 3) Enabling farmer innovation from the #soil up FARA Africa #AFSH24 AUDA-NEPAD CIFOR-ICRAF

And it’s not just humans look at what the #heatwave in delhi is doing to birds particularly raptors 😕Nadeem Shehzad and his team received a record number of cases more than 80 😕😕😕as shared by his team #allthatbreathes

The fact that climate change wasn’t even a tertiary political issue during the Indian elections is worrying. Whoever comes in power needs to decouple India’s economic growth from ecological destruction.

No one knew climate change was real, till their bhejas fried. #heatwave #weather #india

Indeed.

Hail the citizens of India.

RIP

The inability of centrist politics to resolve the basic contradictions of capitalism will eventually give rise to fascist tendencies. Every time.

29,000 feet up Mount Everest with a DJI drone [📹 liulangCooki]

No, next question.

A reminder that it is our modern industrial civilization’s accelerating demand for materials that drives fossil fuel consumption, ecocide & the West’s imperialist assaults on the Global South. In 6 recent years we've consumed nearly as much as we did in the entire 20th century.

One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. Here is Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance: themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/leo…

"Bridging science and the private sector requires immense social capital. Relationships with communities are a cornerstone for success, and our scientists have proven themselves in the field. Mobilizing action starts with trust and understanding." - Nitin Sukh #COP29

"Science is a de-risker and the foundation of impactful projects. It enables us to understand and measure the effects these initiatives need to have." – Jane Feehan, European Investment Bank

🌿 What a powerful session on Nature-Based Solutions! 🌍 Today, we explored how the Resilient Landscapes Luxembourg (RLL) initiative, launched with Ministry for Environment (LU), is accelerating investments in sustainable landscapes for climate action. Here’s what stood out 🧵: (1/8)

open source everything

Never forget, just in case:

Globalisation, that worked well....

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart." themarginalian.org/2024/03/22/lov…