Some amazing photos of human impact on Earth

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/29/1241234103/anthropocene-era-photos-earth-human-scars-planet

#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

Oblivia Coalmine thanks everyone for their support of the #FossilFuel industry via their #PensionFunds

#Climate #ClimateChange #Coal #Oil #Gas #Pensions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeZwnnOkrvw

Oblivian starring Olivia Colman

Meet Oblivia Coalmine, the latex clad oil exec paid for by our pensions. This new film from Make My Money Matter, starring the Academy Award winner Olivia C...

^YouTube

"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

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/extinction-rebellion-conservatives-london-government-southwark-b2413458.html

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

Do you live in NYC?
Do you care about climate change?
Focus on the Bayway Refinery.

Bayway is responsible for the climate emissions of 3.2 million households. It's right across the river from Staten Island.
#nyc #oil #refineries #climate #bayway #degrowth

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayway_Refinery

refinery in Linden, New Jersey

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