It's going to be an ongoing propaganda victory for Australia that these articles keep getting pumped out with zero context or even a slight mention of the fact that Australia disproportionately contributes to why they're being forced to relocate Like Israel's 'humanitarian aid drops'....

When you investigate **any** of the links or evidence put forward by permitting-bros and abundance-bros trying to claim the environmental movement is single worst opponent to clean energy on the planet, you very unsurprisingly end up reading stuff that just doesn't support their claims.

NGOs in Indonesia have documented widespread environmental and social violations across 33 industrial tree plantations since 2023, including deforestation, peatland destruction, fires, and land conflicts with Indigenous communities.

So a respected journalist warned the nation that the Trump administration is a threat to free speech and, true to form, its state media outlet warns that there will now surely be retribution by the administration against that same journalist and his network for his act of free speech.

Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

Bangladesh is making a list of sacred forests, aged trees and other socially important flora in a bid to strengthen forest conservation. Conservationists say they believe that the new measures will help protect the biodiversity and ecology that had been overlooked in the past.

How To Save The Amazon by Dom Phillips "is a book both brilliant and broken, one that is ultimately as inspiring and devastating as the Amazon itself." - @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

📣 NEW DATA ALERT | We are glad to be releasing 2025 human rights scores for 195 countries in June. #Journalists and #CSO civil society orgs are welcome to see the data early, under embargo. Quick form here for early access: humanrightsmeasurement.org/data-launch-...

Here it is, in a clear graphic from the NYTimes. The GOP budget destruction bill will add $3.3 TRILLION to the national debt. And how? Entirely by tax cuts to the rich, paid for by cutting health, food for the poor, climate science, and Medicaid.

“This will be a key milestone in reinforcing legal protection for both people and the planet” #UN experts urge Council of Europe states to start negotiations on a legally binding Protocol that will recognize the right to a clean, healthy, & sustainable environment www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN experts urge @coe.int Member States to negotiate an additional protocol to the European Convention to protect the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment. No more delays for a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... @srenvironment.bsky.social @srtoxics.bsky.social

The new Silent Spring:

In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.

By me: Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its war on the planet www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Seven years after four officials were charged with negligence that resulted in a toxic cyanide spill at Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina, the case has still not gone to trial. New for @mongabay.bsky.social: news.mongabay.com/2025/04/stil...

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

If it wasn’t already abundantly apparent, there are no magic words that change how people feel about climate change.

Brazil’s Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic activities from a controversial bill that critics say violates the Constitution. Read:

US jury orders Chevron to pay $744M damages to Louisiana for direct destruction of wetlands & breached State laws requiring companies to clean up 12 years in litigation (+ prior to filing) this is why real, substantial and up front security bonds are critical www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

Your weekend read: „I was an independent observer in the #Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Kelcy Warren, the founder and CEO of Energy Transfer, once said activists “should be removed from the gene pool”.

I’m also one of the signatories. Mr Khalil’s case is egregious - but the principles explained in this brief apply just as much to the many other people being punished by the Trump Administration for exercising their right to freedom of expression

Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.

In the US, the appalling race to the bottom accelerates: The State Department cancels key meeting with top business executives, labor advocates, academics and experts on tackling human rights abuses —incl child and forced labor— in global supply chains. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

TODAY: Closing arguments in the SLAPP suit against @greenpeaceusa, which aims to silence opposition to corporate power. 🚨Amidst a crackdown on civic space, CIEL continues to support partners in defense of the right to protest and protect public interest. bit.ly/3XYSxVE

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

An internal EPA memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

Williams & Connolly is representing Perkins Coie. And/but "[s]everal other firms declined to represent Perkins Coie, fearing that they, too, could become targets of Mr. Trump’s ire." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

This case is about showing everyone that political protest and speech the government dislikes can get you arrested and kicked out of the country. It’s blatant authoritarianism.

A good day for #ClimateJustice: The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers tells the Swiss Govt it must do more to comply w/ its legal obligations & adhere to landmark⚖️#ECtHR ruling by ramping up #ClimateAction to protect #HumanRights www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-... rm.coe.int/0900001680b4...

🚨 Dozens of UN human rights experts express alarm at the United States’ escalating attacks on the international architecture of human rights, the rule of law, multilateralism, the principles of sovereign equality and self-determination & vital international agreements. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

This is a really good piece on the impact of the foreign aid freeze in one country—and you can extrapolate it out to many others

Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

We spoke to a dozen conservation and aid workers across the world about the aid pause and its effect on their work. My report for @mongabay.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/02/acro...

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Statement of American Society of International Law President Mélida Hodgson Regarding the United States and the International Rule of Law

Difficult to stress how much it's complete psycho shit to indiscriminately fire hundreds of thousands of young poorly paid federal employees who probably uprooted their entire lives and moved to take jobs in service of their country for absolutely no reason.

[1/3] The Trump Administration’s Attacks on International Law and Institutions: Public Statement by 16 US Human Rights Experts, Current and Former Members of UN Bodies www.justsecurity.org/107687/state...

A healthy environment is a prerequisite for the realization of all #HumanRights. That is why it's critical that @coe.int Member States explicitly protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll within the European Convention of Human Rights. A mini 🧵👇

This is one hell of a fantastic long-read by @roycerk2.bsky.social - just, please take in the entire thing Nuclear advocacy out of Canada and the US has become an active part of the Australian conservative push to extend coal/gas power and kill wind and solar plans... drilled.media/news/aus-nuc...

We are about to see in the worst possible way, exactly how much US money underpinned African health systems 75% of Uganda’s health budget 21% of Nigeria’s 17% of South Africa’s

Josh Marshall. Cosign. "The standard should be no help on the budget or the debt ceiling until the lawbreaking stops. Period. End of story. No wilding gangs marauding through the federal government. End the criminal conduct. Period. That’s it. No nuance."