When you say “once-in-a-lifetime” my understanding is that they occur “occur every one to three years somewhere around the globe…”* and I remember one in Cornwall a while back.

(*source: cbsnews.com/news/how-often… )

If you are occupying an area but you pull out your troops to the border, start a blockade and build a fence around it, trapping the population to fend for themselves, you are not lifting the occupation, you are just breaching your obligations as an occupier and thus violating IHL

Should access to social media for children be limited - and if so, how?
Al Jazeera English Nick Clark with Hannah Oertel DelaySmartphones Nirali Bhatia Noeline Blackwell
Full programme here👇
youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0cPL…

From cutting-edge drone and satellite technology for forest monitoring to sustainable substitutes derived from trees for plastics, building materials & fabrics, innovation can help us:

🌲restore
🌳 protect
🌲 manage, &
🌳 use our forests sustainably.

#ForestDay #ClimateAction

““The playbook is this: sell consumers a product that you know is dangerous, while publicly denying or downplaying those dangers. Then, when the dangers are no longer deniable, deny responsibility and blame the consumer,” said Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard historian of science and…

Few people can explain the situation in #Gaza with the sober clarity of Yousef D. Hammash - who, like other Gazans, is living through hell

One day everyone will claim they were against Israel’s genocide & apartheid - but we will never forget or forgive those that have been complicit. Those who stayed silent as much as those who were cheerleaders are equally culpable #CeasefireNOW

Exxon, Chevron notch $57.4bn net income in 2023. Notable how dismissive both companies are in their PR releases / statements on #climate commitments.

ft.com/content/9a4f46…

The refusal to accept the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and the denial of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people, are unacceptable.

The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognized by all.

If you read this, read about a kid getting his arm amputated without anesthetic, and your response is simply to shrug and say ‘But Hamas…’ then you need to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror.

“Children with… open fractures, partial amputations, open chest wounds, horrendous lacerations… and burns. And that was every day.” Dr Deborah Harrington recently spent 2 weeks in a Gaza hospital. “I feel ashamed and shocked that we’re doing this to fellow humans,” she told me.

there’s much more, i strongly urge people to watch the full segment youtu.be/PBmJaT65xdE?si…

Devastating testimony from American pediatrician Dr. Seema Jilani on her experience treating children in Gaza:

'I just kept thinking this is one of so many, a generation of orphans born into Gaza, burnt and amputated. It will stay with me for all my days.'

We are doing interviews like this one from PBS every day. How is it possible, acceptable, right, this is allowed to happen? Can not fathom how the western world is allowing children to be massacred, orphaned, maimed in this way. it is grim listening.

⚠️ Warning: Some viewers may find the images in this exclusive Al Jazeera English report distressing

A family in #Gaza of apparent Israeli war crimes shares a harrowing testimony about executions:

“They smashed on our apartment door. My husband opened it and told them we were all…

Gorgeous drone video captures giant icicles hanging off a lighthouse in Michigan following dangerous wind chills and lake-effect snow this week.

I was lectured 10 days into this -to stay in my lane and do what I’m told ( basically )
my reply minus some personal acid - I stand by what I said ⬇️

Don’t lecture me on morals - yr gonna loose . Of course I want the hostages released - I’ve been calling on saving Jewish…

Big Oil has a new playbook. Instead of getting their Internet goons to deny climate change, they've figured out how to manipulate the public in a whole new way. Are we going to let them get away with it? Share this video and go to counterhate.com to learn more.

These female soldiers belong to a military that is starving pregnant Palestinian women of food and water, forcing Palestinian women to have c-sections without anesthesia while killing their premature babies.

It’s the equivalent of publishing a glowing profile of Germany’s female…

Horrific. And all paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.