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BP Scraps Target of Reducing Oil Production by 2030
Oil major BP has scrapped its goal of reducing oil and gas production by the end of the decade, angering environmental groups.Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (EcoWatch)
An Amazon free from oil and gas
Out of the more than $20 billion invested, 46% of all direct financing for oil and gas exploration in the Amazon comes from just six banks: Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Itaú Unibanco, Santander, Bank of America, and HSBC.act.350.org
Cruise Ship Invasion | Hakai Magazine
Take a typical Alaska cruise and see the damage in its wake. The evidence is clear: the industry needs an overhaul.Hakai Magazine
Some amazing photos of human impact on Earth
#anthropocene #photography #oil #PalmOil #Kenya #Nigeria #Texas #Borneo
Guatemala: European companies buy palm oil from a company engaged in violence against Maya Q’eqchi’ communities
👉 https://avispa.org/?p=113491
#crudepalmoil #kernelpalmoil #palmoil #africanpalm #oil #picoftheday #guatemala #indigenous #indigenouspeople #africanpalm #nopesticides
Guatemala: Chiquibul Seeks to Certify its Oil Palm Crops while Using Violence Against Indigenous Peoples - Avispa Midia
Community of Santa Elena, in Petén, is surveilled by police patrols and armed company guards; at night drones fly over the communityRenata Bessi (Avispa Midia)
"Extinction Rebellion have poured a pool of fake oil over the steps of the Labour Party’s London headquarters and let off smoke grenades.
Two activists climbed on to the portico and set off the canisters, while another chained himself to a handrail, calling on Labour to cancel any oil licences granted by the Conservatives before the next election if the party comes to power."
#LabourParty #Oil #Gas #NorthSea #OilLicences
Extinction Rebellion pour fake oil over steps of Labour HQ
Activists are calling on the party to cancel any oil licences granted by the Conservatives before the next election if it comes to power.Margaret Davis (The Independent)
#SavingCarbonSinks: Ecuadorian social #movements have bypassed pro-extractivist #politicians with a national #referendum to keep #oil from Block 43 also known as “Yasuní ITT,” a concession in the deepest part of the Amazonian protected Yasuní National #Forest, in the ground. While movements around the world have successfully achieved #mining moratoria, this is an important new strategy for #environmental and #Indigenous #rights activists.
#RightsOfNature #SafeguardTheCommons #YasuniITT
https://nacla.org/ecuador-yasuni-oil-historic-referendum
Ecuador Votes to Keep Yasuní Oil in the Ground in Historic Referendum
Ecuadorians have chosen to safeguard the biodiverse Yasuní National Park from oil drilling, marking a major triumph for grassroots Indigenous and environmental activists against the fossil fuel consensus.NACLA
While we are still trying to find ways to clean up problems like oil spills in the ocean, microorganisms in the seas have their own insights to impart.
Oil rich soil from the Guaymas Basin has provided German scientists understanding of a mechanism by which archaea in the Alkanophaga break down alkane molecules and thus degrade petroleum through oxidation.
#Remediation #Bioremediation #Oil #Petroleum #Archaea #Alkanophaga #Science #Biology #Scicomm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01400-3
Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes - Nature Microbiology
Oil-rich deep-sea sediments are used to culture syntrophic communities of archaea and bacteria that pair petroleum alkane oxidation to sulfide generation.Nature
