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The term El Niño is part of a broader phenomenon called El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. It’s a recurring climate pattern involving changes in sea surface temperatures across the central and eastern tropical Pacific.

The phenomenon has three phases: the warm phase is El Niño, the cool phase is La Niña, and between the two lies a neutral or transitional phase, when neither dominates clearly. The changes occur in the tropical region of the Pacific Ocean, within 700 miles of the equator.

The following passage comes from the preface of Dilar Dirik's book called "The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice" (2022)

In radical traditions, feminism is not about visibility or representation inside an unjust world; in fact, feminism should never be compatible with the dominant power-based system and its liberal discourses. I align with those who see feminism as a constantly evolving, critical, and self-critical resistance movement for justice and liberation, a method of radicalizing society’s freedom consciousness to organize the world differently. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003) refers to ‘anticapitalist transnational feminist practice’ as a way of building ‘noncolonizing’ bridges across particular and universal struggle contexts. As it is not a classical national liberation struggle, but a mass movement with a claim to a more universal struggle against dominant systems of power, the revolutionary Kurdish women’s movement’s experience and analyses are valuable to anyone interested in anti-colonial and anti-capitalist politics, feminism from below, revolutionary social change, climate justice, system-critical theory, and democracy without the state. In this sense, unconcerned with exceptionalizing Kurdish women, I hope that this book can be one of the many efforts to build transnational alliances for peace and justice against the systems that colonize, devalue, and destroy life.

Note: Even tho this video was posted 3 months ago, it looks like it was recorded in 2022. I assume this because in the intro of this video it is said that her book mentioned above was not yet published.

Bottom trawlers drag giant nets across the ocean floor, releasing stored CO2 and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life unintentionally caught up in the process.

The pH levels in some rivers in Alaska and northern Canada have dropped to 2.3, comparable to the acidity of vinegar.

n Alaska, the most recent satellite imagery indicates that the affected rivers now cover an area more than 600 miles wide.

In 2024, a paper in Science led by Kopf introduced the term “longevity conservation,” giving name to a simple idea: protecting wildlife means maintaining the full age structure of populations, including their oldest members. The concept quickly moved beyond theory. Last year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature adopted a resolution on the issue, formally recognizing the importance of protecting older individuals and elevating the concept into conservation policy. And at the recent United Nations Convention on Migratory Species meeting in Brazil, protecting “old and wise” animals was a major talking point.

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a “superpower” that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull down the rain, according to a recent study.

A discussion on the criminalization of migration in Greece and the broader EU policies against migration and how we can work together to create communities of resistance. Update on the trials in Crete.

Note: the part that is in Greek is so badly translated that I am not sure it is worth watching

In a first-ever review of nitrate levels in public water systems across the country, the Environmental Working Group found that 6,114 of them—from heavily agricultural rural areas to major cities, including Los Angeles, Phoenix and Philadelphia—have elevated levels of nitrates, affecting 18 percent of the country’s population, or roughly one in five people, between 2021 and 2023.

Some states, including Iowa, which has significant nitrate pollution linked to agriculture, did not end up in the top 10 merely because it has fewer public water systems.

While other species including gibbons and long-tailed macaques have also been spotted crossing there, "this is a world first for Sumatran orangutans,"

"These canopy bridges demonstrate that human development and wildlife don't have to be at odds. Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the most effective,"

The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies Sumatran orangutans (...) as critically endangered,