1. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    Higher global temperatures and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events are primarily responsible for an increase in forest fires. As the forest fires in Greece and Italy have shown in recent weeks, they can quickly destroy large areas of vegetation and woodland... August 13th Subsidies | Globalization | Looting The new economic...

  2. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    Follow industry lobbying.” Because they made the exceptions - above all Lufthansa and the Federal Association of the German Aviation Industry (BDL), which it dominates... * Italy | Storm | Devastation Heavy damage after storm in South Tyrol Destroyed bridges, roads and cars: A storm caused severe devastation in South Tyrol on Saturday evening. Apparently...

  3. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    To increase the firefighting fleet in southern European countries. The twelve "Canadair" aircraft will be fully financed by the EU, but will be stationed and owned in Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. [...] However, these new aircraft will not be available until the 2027 forest fire season. This comes at a time when...

  4. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Island of Lampedusa, even though the authorities had forbidden her to do so. Rackete explained her decision with the emergency situation in which those rescued found themselves on board the ship. Italy's interior minister at the time complained and called Rackete, whose ship had hit a Guardia di Finanza police boat in the harbor, a "braggart and a criminal" who was "on his balls"...

  5. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    From Europe to America to Japan and China: Large parts of the world are suffering from an extreme heat wave. A whole series of high temperatures was expected this weekend. In Italy, the Ministry of Health issued a red alert heat warning for several cities. In Greece, the ancient landmark Acropolis in Athens was closed again on Saturday... *...

  6. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    give a voice to the few people on all sides who are committed to ending the war. This can be a pacifist in Ukraine as well as employees from Belarus, Italy and Greece who blocked arms transport in their countries last year. That would be constructive journalism in the best sense of the word. A union journalism day would have...

  7. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Do the facts present themselves? The cause and effect connection between the use of DU ammunition and the outcome of countless malignant diseases has been established in court in over 300 cases in Italy. NATO cannot deny this: only the court is called upon to reveal the truth according to the rules prescribed by law...

  8. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    from the beginning of 2022 to the beginning of 2023 by almost 200 to an estimated 12.512. In return, the number of usable nuclear weapons will increase by 86 to an estimated 9576... * Italy | Campi Flegrei volcano: Is there a threat of an eruption of the supervolcano? Subsurface movements indicate gas rise and increasing crustal fractures Potential warning signs: The largest active supervolcano in Europe...

  9. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    * Photovoltaics | Solar production Lorraine instead of China Giga race to the sun Europe is finally trying to catch up again in solar production. Gigafactories are to be built in France, Italy and Germany. Investors also point to the good funding conditions in the USA. Until a good ten years ago, European companies dominated the global market for solar cells and...

  10. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    on the high seas, shows the final document for the meeting of the environment and climate ministers. In addition to Japan and Germany, the G7 includes the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France and Italy. The most important points of the agreement: An additional 2030 gigawatts of offshore wind power are planned by 150, which mathematically corresponds to the output of 150 nuclear power plants. In addition,...

  11. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    Today the people in the region are suffering from the consequences. Many show the same symptoms as the victims of Chernobyl and Mayak: cancer, blood diseases, damage to the genetic material."... *** April 5th Italy | Uranium ammunition | Damage to health Damage to health caused by depleted uranium: "Avalanche has begun" Great Britain's decision, with Grenades made from depleted uranium...

  12. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    State to stop the operation of nuclear power plants and to forego nuclear energy to generate electricity. Italy has so far completely phased out the production of nuclear energy, and other countries such as Germany, Belgium and Switzerland have announced or initiated a nuclear phase-out. Austria took delivery of its completed nuclear power plant...

  13. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    The first of the controversial transports will roll to Lower Franconia in mid-February, as the nuclear power plant operator Preussen-Elektra announced. The company does not want to give the exact date... * Italy | Enel | Solar module production Enel expands Sicilian solar module factory into the largest in Europe The Italian energy company Enel wants to expand its factory for the production of 3Sun solar modules in Sicily...

  14. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    de France) Information on corrosion requested. According to an inspection by the French nuclear safety agency ASN, forwarded by the Luxembourg NGO, the Italian-made spare parts intended to combat this wear and tear were not properly checked. Greenpeace therefore fears “the risk of non-conforming parts”... *...

  15. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    CO2 certificates market. For the environment, for your own conscience and of course your own brand. The key term is offsetting. That means something like equalization or compensation. The Italian fashion company Gucci, for example, emits CO2 in the production of clothing, transport, heating of its buildings and so on. About a million tons every year. [...] The...

  16. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    have been detained as part of the investigation or are being investigated. [...] "Scandal of the Social Democrats" The fact that the investigators' documents were leaked to a Belgian and an Italian newspaper, of all places, has to do, among other things, with the fact that the former EU MP Pier Antonio Panzeri is at the center of the scandal. But that also has to do with the fact that...

  17. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    Own goal in Brussels The corruption allegations are probably just the tip of the iceberg. Stricter transparency rules are necessary – in order to remain credible against Orbán. A Greek and several Italian MEPs are suspected of corruption. “Evil” Qatar was apparently the financier. This is how the European Parliament begins the final week of the World Cup in Qatar. In this...

  18. Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough

    be. They violate the unwritten rules of that system and it is precisely because of these rule violations that they are attractive to so many voters. The same applies to Giorgia Meloni in Italy. And also for Benjamin Netanyahu... * Climate neutral | Hydrogen | Renewable | Namibia Green hydrogen is still a niche. Significantly more effort is needed for climate-neutral business...

  19. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    Young people from numerous environmental associations, the Scientists for Future and in some countries also from trade unions. There were actions in Bangladesh, Austria, India, Italy (here an action on the Rialto Bridge in Venice), El Salvador, Japan, Uganda, Pakistan and of course in Sweden, among others. According to a press release from the German branch...

  20. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    Nuclear energy is by no means a safe form of energy supply, even beyond serious accidents. This year, due to drought, the climate crisis is causing hydroelectric power plants in Italy and France to suddenly dry out and no longer supply electricity. Even Norway no longer has an abundance of hydropower... * Climate Change | CO2 concentration | Weather Earth's atmosphere has the highest...

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