Pollution

The Calculus of Managing Waste in Lagos As a cosmopolitan state, Lagos, with its megacity status, has had it fair share of profit and challenges. Rapid urbanization and industrialization have seen the state subjected to much pressure on its infrastructure and competition for its small land mass. Ranked amongst the…

Welcome to the 6th edition of Collapse Catch-Up, a weekly newsletter that catches you up on the latest signs that we are living through the collapse of global industrial civilization. This week we have an extra-long edition with news about the latest IPCC report, climate disasters, water shortages, peak oil…

OUR EARTH IS DYING. Yes, our own planet is dying and what are we doing about it? Whatever we are doing is not enough. “The jet-setting habits of Bill Gates and Paris Hilton mean that they produce an astonishing 10,000 times more carbon emissions from flying than the average person…

New Study Warns of Rise in Potentially Fatal Infections along US Coast, with Predictions for Future Spread — You may have heard about the various consequences of global warming such as rising sea levels, extreme weather patterns, and food insecurity. …

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹The Hill, ²Washington Post, ³CNBC and ⁴USA Today. On Wednesday, Alan Shaw, CEO of Norfolk Southern Railway — the company whose train carrying several cars of hazardous chemicals derailed on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio — testified…