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Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion -- of planet Earth itself. They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone.

A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging limits, yet insists the future is not fixed and asks how we can move through this transition with dignity, relationality and mutual respect.

Nate scales his exploration of civilizational futures down to the future of a single human life and analyzes how the same patterns that shape economies, power, geopolitics, and Earth systems turn inward.

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Sebagian besar permainan digital modern menggunakan teknologi Random Number Generator (RNG), yaitu sistem yang menghasilkan hasil permainan secara acak. Dengan mekanisme tersebut, peluang setiap putaran tidak dipengaruhi oleh status pemain, baik pengguna baru maupun pengguna lama.

Karena itu, apabila sebuah situs mengklaim dapat memberikan jackpot secara pasti, pengguna sebaiknya meninjau kembali kredibilitas informasi tersebut. Pendekatan yang bijak adalah memilih platform yang menjelaskan mekanisme permainan secara terbuka tanpa memberikan janji kemenangan mutlak.

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A company’s assessment of the climate impact of oil production at Horse Hill in Surrey is flawed and any permission based on it would be unlawful, campaigners said today.

They urged Surrey County Council to refuse plans by UK Oil & Gas plc (UKOG) to revive extraction and drill extra wells at the site near Gatwick Airport.

Google Earth image downloaded 21 July 2026

An earlier permission for the scheme had been quashed in a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court more than two years ago.

The court decided that Surrey County Council should have taken account of carbon emissions from burning oil extracted at Horse Hill, as well those released in the production process.

The site has been suspended since October 2024. But UKOG is now seeking to reinstate the permission. Part of the application is a new estimate of the climate impact of the plans.

Environmental campaigner Sarah Finch, who successfully won the Supreme Court challenge, on behalf of Weald Action Group, said today the company had used the wrong guidance in assessing greenhouse gas emissions.

“The application should have assessed the emissions from Horse Hill oil on a global basis, taking into account the emissions from other existing and committed fossil fuel projects. It failed to do so, so I believe allowing the project on this basis would be unlawful.”

She added:

“The Weald Action Group defeated the previous application for Horse Hill oil production in the Supreme Court, so it is depressing to have to do it again!

“Once again the oil company has failed to recognise the impacts of this project to produce oil for 20 years. The science is clear. Any new oil and gas production will bust our chances of keeping global heating within safe limits.”

UKOG said it expected to extract more than 600,000 tonnes of oil over 20 years at Horse Hill. The company estimated this would release two million tonnes of carbon emissions, which it described as “insignificant”.

Friends of the Earth, which supported Ms Finch in the Supreme Court case, argued today that two million tonnes could not “realistically be described as insignificant”. The organisation said:

“Scientists are clear that there can be no new fossil fuel projects if global climate goals are to be met.”

Both Ms Finch and Friends of the Earth argued that the way UKOG assessed carbon emissions from Horse Hill was “out of step” with the Supreme Court ruling and did not follow government guidance or UK international climate obligations.

Friends of the Earth’s interim head of legal, Katie de Kauwe, said it was “disappointing” that a new application had been submitted and the organisation would stand with the Weald Action Group in opposing it.

She said:

“Fossil fuel companies continue to profit from the climate crisis they are driving, while ordinary people pay the price.

“This June was England’s hottest on record, putting lives, livelihoods and nature at risk. Such extreme weather is going to get worse and more frequent if governments do not take the action necessary to phase out fossil fuel projects.

“Approving Horse Hill would be a backwards step that we cannot afford to take.

“Oil drilling in Surrey will do nothing to help the cost-of-living crisis. It is clear that the UK’s continued reliance on fossil fuels leaves households exposed to volatile global markets, as the recent crisis in the Middle East has shown. The route to lower bills, greater energy security and a safer climate is a rapid transition to renewables.”

Friends of the Earth also submitted updated evidence warning of earthquake risks associated with the proposal.

A report for the organisation, by Stuart Haszeldine, professor of geology at University of Edinburgh, concluded that earthquake risks could not be ruled out if production resumed. He recommended enhanced monitoring and assessment before any future production began.

A swarm of more than 150 small earthquakes centred on Newdigate, near Horse Hill, in 2018-19. The majority of participants at a workshop of experts decided the swarm was not related to operations at Horse Hill.

But more recent research has concluded that oil operations could trigger earthquakes. Links here and here

Professor Haszeldine, who disagreed with the workshop conclusions, said today:

“In my opinion, there is now a substantial body of evidence linking the 2018–2019 earthquake sequence in the Horse Hill and Newdigate area with oil production activities at Horse Hill.

“This includes the temporal relationship between production activities and earthquake occurrence, together with subsequent academic analyses published since the issue was previously considered by regulators.

“I have not identified evidence that additional work has been undertaken to assess or mitigate future seismicity risks associated with renewed production activities. In my view, enhanced baseline monitoring, together with regular and frequent ongoing monitoring of seismicity and both tophole and downhole well pressures, should be undertaken before and throughout any further production operations.”

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A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 12, 2026 thru Sat, July 18, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category:

Climate Change Impacts (7 articles)

• New research : Doomsday Glacier ice shelf could 'give way any day now' "Just have a Think" on Youtubue, Dave Borlace, July 5, 2026.
• Grey whales are dying along our shores. Researchers say a warming climate may be part of the problem Although a number of factors may be contributing to the die-off, scientists say it’s likely at least partly due to climate change. Melting Arctic ice and warmer waters may be reducing the number of small sea creatures the whales rely on for food, and altering the selection of what does remain. CBC'', Brandie Weikle, Laura Lynch, Jul 12, 2026.
• The Strongest El Niño Ever With the July runs now in from 667 ensemble members across 14 different seasonal forecast models, it looks like this year’s El Niño is not only very likely to be the strongest event since reliable records began – it may end up the strongest by a truly mind-blowing margin. The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather, Jul 13, 2026.
• Global warming's new wrinkle - it's too hot for nuclear reactors to operate The scorching summer in the U.S. and Europe and wildfires across both continents are well documented, but global warming flexed its power in a new way this week as France said it shut down a handful of nuclear reactors because of the extreme heat. Callaway Climate Insights, David Callaway, Jul 14, 2026.
• Climate Change Contributes to a Smokier World Higher temperatures and drought conditions are contributing to more intense wildfires and extending the summer fire season in North America. NYT, Quinn Glabicki, Jul 16, 2026.
• Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather, Jul 17, 2026.
• Dangerous and historic wildfire smoke pollution event engulfs the U.S. and Canada Most of the fires grew out of control under extreme heat conditions made up to five times more likely by climate change. Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters, Jul 17, 2026.

Climate Science and Research (6 articles)

• Scientists finally solved the mystery of Earth's greatest mass extinction According to the researchers, the work also has important implications for the present. The environmental conditions before the Great Dying resembled the relatively cool, oxygen rich oceans that existed for millions of years before human activities began rapidly altering Earth's climate through fossil fuel emissions. ScienceDaily, Stanford University press office, Jul 12, 2026.
• Changes in Funding Could Tank Quality of Ocean Heat Content Data An uncertain funding landscape threatens the longevity of an ocean observation system critical to projecting tropical storms, sea level rise, and more. Eos, Grace van Deelen, Jul 13, 2026.
• A deep pool of extremely warm water is available to fuel El Niño in summer 2026 Climate.us, Rebecca Lindsey, July 16, 2026.
• The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving. Ars Technica, John Timmer, Jul 17, 2026.
• As climate extremes collide, attribution science evolves A National Academy of Sciences report on extreme climate event attribution confronts political climate denialism with scientific evidence. Inside Climate News, Bob Berwyn, Jul 17, 2026.
• "iT'S CaLLeD SuMmER" Dr Gilbz on Youtube, Ella Gilbert, July 17, 2026.

Climate Policy and Politics (4 articles)

• Trump taps climate skeptic to run US government`s flagship climate report Matthew Wielicki frequently criticizes established climate science online, including in videos from rightwing PragerU The Guardian, Dharna Noor, Jul 10, 2026.
• The Climate Deal Trump Won`t Kill CORSIA, the global aviation climate scheme run by the UN’s aviation body (ICAO), may be the only climate agreement Trump will never try to kill precisely because it asks almost nothing of the United States, or of airlines anywhere in the world. CleanTechnica, William Todts, Jul 13, 2026.
• An extraordinary White House meeting NYT, David Gelles, Jul 14, 2026.
• Political representatives found more polarized on climate change than their constituents Phys.org, University of Konstanz, Jul 16, 2026.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (3 articles)

• Sweeping victory for Europe as 15 nations top climate scoreboard Europe has come top in the latest Environmental Performance Index, partly due to the boom in renewables. But experts warn that more progress is needed. EuroNews, Liam Gilliver, Jul 12, 2026.
• Renewables, Led By Solar, Were Largest Source of Energy Supply Growth Globally in 2025 Solar achieved 30% growth in 2025 and its share of total power generation reached 8.7% – surpassing wind (8.4%) for the first time and almost equalling nuclear’s share of 8.8%. Behind solar, wind power was the second largest source of renewables growth in 2025, increasing by 8.2% year-on-year. CleanTechnica, Zachary Shahan, Jul 13, 2026.
• The Fake Air-Conditioner Climate Debate ClimateAdam on Youtube, Adam Levy, July 13, 2026.

Miscellaneous (3 articles)

• 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28 A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 5, 2026 thru Sat, July 11, 2026. Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Jul 12, 2026.
• You can help scientists study walruses A global science project is asking volunteers to search Arctic satellite images for the animals, which are threatened by climate change. Yale Climate Connections, YCC Team, Jul 14, 2026.
• National Academies Report Backs Climate Change Attribution Science Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming. New York Times, Raymond Zhong, Jul 16, 2026.

Climate Education and Communication (2 articles)

• Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios The Conversation, Peter Stott, Jul 13, 2026.
• Daniel Swain PhD: New Climate Denial, Same as the Old Climate Denial 'New Climate Denial" is not so new after all. This is Not Cool, greenman3610, Jul 14, 2026.

Climate Law and Justice (1 article)

• He sued the oil industry for $51B. Now he faces Republicans in a private grilling. The fossil fuel industry and its allies have targeted the science that factors into many of the climate lawsuits for nearly a decade; with attribution science showing how fossil fuel companies supercharge extreme weather the industry claims that the growing field exists solely to propel litigation. Politico, Lesley Clark, Hailey Fuchs, Corbin Hiar and Chelsea Harvey, Jul 15, 2026.

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (1 article)

• The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions The Guardian, Jonathan Watts, July 11, 2026.

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (1 article)

• Do electric vehicles stop working in extreme heat? No - Extreme heat can temporarily reduce range, but recent research does not show that EVs are unable to operate in hot weather. Skeptical Science, Sue Bin Park, July 14, 2026.

If you happen upon high quality climate-science and/or climate-myth busting articles from reliable sources while surfing the web, please feel free to submit them via this Google form so that we may share them widely. Thanks!

Earlier this year, the House passed a Farm Bill packed with giveaways to Big Agriculture. Rather than confronting the environmental, public health, and economic harms of industrial agriculture, lawmakers doubled down on the status quo—protecting powerful agribusiness interests while falling short on meaningful investments in sustainable farming, conservation, and rural communities.

Unfortunately, the recent Senate draft doesn’t do much better. As senators debate their version of the Farm Bill, they face a fundamental question—will federal farm policy continue subsidizing and entrenching the factory farm model, or will it help build a healthier, more resilient food system?

That question is especially urgent with the emergence of a new generation of technologies that promises to solve the problems of industrial livestock production. Chief among them are genetically engineered animals.

Instead of addressing the overcrowding, disease, pollution, and animal suffering that factory farms create, biotechnology companies are redesigning animals to better tolerate those conditions. The message is clear: don’t fix the system—change the animals.

A new Friends of the Earth report, Engineering Harm: Why Genetically Engineered Animals Deepen Risks to Public Health and Animal Welfare, documents how this approach is moving rapidly from the laboratory into the food system. Since 2020, federal regulators have approved three genetically engineered animals for human consumption, including cattle engineered to better tolerate heat and pigs engineered to resist disease.

Supporters present these genetically engineered animals as innovative solutions to agricultural challenges. In reality, they represent a troubling extension of the same industrial model that created many of those challenges in the first place.

Consider cattle engineered for heat tolerance, which are being promoted as a response to rising temperatures, even as industrial livestock production remains a major contributor to the climate crisis.

Likewise, disease-resistant pigs. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) costs the pork industry hundreds of millions of dollars annually, largely because the virus spreads rapidly in the crowded conditions typical of industrial operations. Rather than reducing animal density or improving living conditions, the industry is engineering pigs to withstand the disease.

At the same time, corporate interests have doubled down on their efforts to advance the so-called Save our Bacon Act in the Farm Bill, which would overturn state animal welfare laws designed to move away from the extreme confinement of pigs and other farm animals. And the stakes extend beyond animal welfare—it would also undermine states’ authority to establish stronger agricultural production standards that protect public health, the environment, and local communities. Though this harmful provision wasn’t included in the base text of the Senate Farm Bill, industry allies are expected to continue pushing to include it as the legislative process moves forward.

For decades, federal farm policy has helped prop up industrial animal agriculture through commodity subsidies, crop insurance programs, and policies that favor large-scale production. Taxpayer dollars already support a system linked to water pollution, antibiotic overuse, greenhouse gas emissions, and the hollowing out of rural communities. Genetically engineered livestock threaten to make things even worse by helping factory farms adapt and expand without addressing the conditions that make them harmful in the first place.

And genetically engineered animals raise serious concerns of their own.

Creating these animals often involves cloning and other invasive procedures with high failure rates. Friends of the Earth finds that thousands of cloned embryos used in the development of the genetically engineered GalSafe pig resulted in only a handful of successful animals. Mortality rates among genetically engineered piglets were significantly higher than in conventional pigs. In other cases, animals developed abnormalities or died during the development process.

Scientists have also documented unintended genetic changes associated with engineering animals, including mutations that can affect animal health and welfare. Despite industry claims of precision, the results of gene-editing technologies are often not predictable, and the long-term consequences remain poorly understood.

The public health risks deserve equal scrutiny. One genetically engineered pig approved for sale contains an antibiotic-resistance marker gene, raising concerns about the potential spread of antibiotic resistance—one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time. Disease-resistant animals may also create evolutionary pressures that encourage viruses to evolve in unexpected ways. Yet federal regulators have largely brushed aside these concerns.

Perhaps most troubling is how little independent oversight exists. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration relies heavily on data generated by the companies seeking approval. Public access to safety data is limited. Independent scientific review is often absent. In some cases, regulators have exempted genetically engineered animals from full approval processes altogether.

This should concern anyone who cares about food safety, scientific integrity, or democratic accountability.

The Senate’s Farm Bill debate offers a chance to begin charting a different course.

Instead of helping factory farms become more efficient at producing disease, pollution, and animal suffering, lawmakers should invest in farming systems that already provide proven benefits for public health, animal welfare, and the environment. Congress could expand support for well-managed pasture-based livestock systems, organic agriculture, regional food infrastructure, conservation programs, and farmer transition assistance. It could strengthen local processing capacity, improve animal welfare standards, and reduce dependence on routine antibiotics. And it must reject the Save Our Bacon Act and any effort to strip local communities and states of their authority to set strong agricultural production standards.

These approaches do not require redesigning animals to fit factory farms. They require redesigning farming systems to work with animals, people, and ecosystems.

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Monday morning, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments stretched across over 3 million acres of public lands in southern Utah, protecting some of the country’s most remote landscapes and scores of archaeological sites sacred to local tribes. By that evening, President Donald Trump had cut the monuments to just 302,600 acres.

While the two executive orders gutting the monuments and their protections repeat an action from the first Trump administration that was reversed by President Joe Biden, Monday’s reductions go far further than before.

In December 2017, Trump signed proclamations to reduce Bears Ears National Monument from 1.3 million acres to roughly 228,000 acres, an 85 percent reduction, while Grand Staircase-Escalante was cut nearly in half, from 1.9 million acres to about 1 million. Monday’s executive orders cut the monuments to less than a quarter of what was left after the previous shrinking of the monuments.

Flanked by Utah Republicans, Trump said in signing the executive orders that new restrictions made it virtually impossible to hunt, fish, or even walk on the monuments, which is not true. Both are accessible to visitors, including for hunting and fishing.

Trump’s executive orders will take effect in 60 days. Shrinking the boundaries of the monuments, the orders state, will better align with the administration’s goals for public lands: opening them up to extraction. 

The orders say the decision puts power back in the hands of local communities, despite its disbanding and terminating of an inter-tribal working group for Bears Ears that led co-stewardship efforts at the monument—the first of its kind, and the result of years of advocacy from local tribes. Tribal officials said they were not consulted about the decision to reduce the monuments. 

“[Trump is] saying the quiet part out loud. He’s being honest: I’m doing this so that we can mine and drill and graze cows,” said John Ruple, a law professor and program director at the University of Utah’s Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment. “We’ll see if the American people think those are the best uses of national monuments, and we’ll see if courts agree with that, too.”

Davina Smith-Idjesa, a member of the Navajo Nation and part of both monuments’ inter-tribal coalitions, said reading the proclamations was a reminder “of genocide and that tribes are expendable” in the U.S. 

Uranium mining in the Four Corners region left members of her family sick and dead, she said after the signing of the executive orders, and now the prospect looms of these sacred areas being made available for extraction again.

A view of Bears Ears National Monument at sunset. Tim Peterson

“Bears Ears is at my back door,” she said during a press conference Tuesday morning. “This is not a political talking point for me. This is home. My ancestors knew this land. My family knows this land. I know where our people go to pray, to gather medicines, to gather food and to heal. This is our grocery store, our medicine cabinet, our classroom, our church. And I need people to understand: You cannot take a pin, draw a line through the landscape, and tell us what remains should be enough.”

Ruple said there is little political upside to the decision, and polling consistently shows Americans support the monuments and the protection of public lands. Attacks on public lands, including Grand Staircase-Escalante, in recent years have consistently failed. 

The Antiquities Act, he said, makes clear that presidents have the power to create monuments, but not rescind them. That power rests with Congress.

The executive orders come after a June decision in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that reversed a district court’s opinion to dismiss a lawsuit from the state of Utah attacking the Biden administration’s restoration of the borders of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments after Trump first shrank them. The lawsuit also targets the powers of the Antiquities Act of 1906, which allows presidents to create national monuments. It was signed by President Teddy Roosevelt, who later used it to protect the Grand Canyon as a national monument before it later became a park. 

“If you go and eviscerate these two monuments, now I suspect we’re going to see the Department of Justice go into the district court and say, ‘Look, this case is moot. The monuments have been reduced by every inch that were restored and the Biden proclamations have now been undone,’” Ruple said. 

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Environmental groups and tribal leaders who have long advocated for the protection of the two monuments vowed to continue fighting to protect them. Both were vital to the creation of Bears Ears, which is the first and only national monument co-managed between the federal government and local tribes. 

Last time the Trump administration shrank the monuments, Earthjustice, representing a coalition of environmental groups and tribes, sued over the decision. The organization vowed to do so again.

The executive orders came as no surprise. Last March, the Trump administration announced it would eliminate California’s Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands national monuments before removing language announcing that decision from a White House fact sheet. Then last June, the Department of Justice issued an opinion that the president has the power to review and eliminate national monuments.

Project 2025, the policy roadmap for a second Trump administration coordinated by the conservative Heritage Foundation, has called for reducing the size of those national monuments and others — and even suggested repealing the Antiquities Act of 1906.

In a press call Tuesday in response to the executive orders, Democratic members of Congress condemned the proclamations for prioritizing public lands for mining rather than for the American people, expressing fear that other protected areas could be targeted next and that cultural and religious sites could be vandalized.

“This is a trend coming from Donald Trump and from this administration,” said Senator Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat from New Mexico. “While these monuments are in Utah, they belong to all of us across the United States.”

“The administration is on the wrong side of history here, ignoring the voices of Tribal Nations, local communities, and the millions of Americans who want these places protected for future generations,” said Tracy Stone-Manning, Wilderness Society president and former director of the Bureau of Land Management under the Biden administration, in a statement. “As our nation marks 250 years, these public lands should be handed down, not over to drilling and mining interests.”

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Trump again shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments on Jul 19, 2026.

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Headline News:

• “India’s Solar And Wind Power Hits Record 42.79% Of Grid Load” • India’s power sector achieved a landmark on July 13 as variable renewable energy sources accounted for 42.79% of the total electricity generation in the country. Wind and solar output combined to peak at 103.7 GW. India is accelerating its transition toward cleaner energy sources. [Whalesbook]

Wind farm in India (Thangaraj Kumaravel, CC BY-SA 2.0)

• “US Reaches Solar Power Milestone Amid Fossil Fuel Decline” • While gas and nuclear plants still lead the country’s energy mix, solar generated 12.8% of the nation’s electricity in May, according to an analysis of government data by Ember. Coal provided less, just 12.2%. Five years ago, solar was less than half of its current levels and coal was at 20%. [Kiowa County Press]
• “Spain Faces Hottest Week Of Summer With Temperatures Up To 45°C Next Week” • Spain’s State Meteorological Agency set out a timetable for its next heatwave: Climbing temperatures will intensify by Tuesday, July 22, at the latest, and last until at least Thursday, July 23. Readings that could locally be as high as 45°C (113°F) in the south-eastern third of the country. [Euronews]
• “Every Day In Every Way, Attribution Science Is Getting Better And Better” • The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report on attribution science. It backs a large body of scientific knowledge that could help governments hold oil, gas, and coal companies responsible for damage caused by extreme weather. [CleanTechnica]
• “Climate Scientists Have Predicted Greater Flooding In Texas For Decades. It’s Happening Now” • One of the shocking things about the storms that hit Texas this week is that a similar rainfall event struck almost exactly a year ago in many of the same areas. That tragic repetition may not be surprising to those who follow climate science. [Texas Public Radio]

For more news, please visit geoharvey – Daily News about Energy and Climate Change.

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This beautiful tribute to Philasingazi Alson Ndimande was written by Sinegugu Zukulu, chairperson of the Global Environmental Trust (GET).  Phila was co-founder of the Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation (MCEJO).

For over 10 years he led the struggle preventing coal mining in the Fuleni reserve, neighbouring the iMfolozi Wilderness Area.

He also supported the Mpukonyoni communities in challenging Tendele Coal mine’s non-compliance and plans to expand. His courage, integrity and uncompromising leadership won him respect and trust.

He was dearly loved and his death has sent shockwaves through the communities and organisations he worked with.  Phila died of pancreatic cancer on  Tuesday evening, 14 July, after a valiant struggle. This was a few months after his 60th birthday. There was still so much he wanted to do. 

Our thoughts are with his family, the Ocilwane community, Fuleni, MCEJO members, friends and comrades. He will be sorely missed. 

May your body and soul rest in peace, dear Phila, and may your spirit soar free.

“In deed, Comrade Phila was bigger than the biggest tree in the forest that supports thousands of creepers to reach the forest canopy for the much needed sunshine. A tree that bears fruits to feed all the birds in the forest. A tree that gives shelter to many other species. A tree that it’s leaves fall down, decompose and fertilise the soil to support growth of many other young trees. May his spirit continue to water the struggle of the people of Zululand. May he be the umbrella that protects, lifts and guides those left behind. May he be a good ancestor to his family. Rest in peace Comrade Phila!!! Phila ngonaphakade kwelemimoya, ulwile ukulwa okuhle!!!”

The post Hamba kahle Baba Phila first appeared on Global Environmental Trust.

Parlay telah lama menjadi salah satu pilihan menarik bagi penggemar prediksi olahraga karena menawarkan sensasi berbeda dibandingkan taruhan tunggal. Dalam sistem ini, beberapa pilihan pertandingan digabungkan menjadi satu kombinasi, sehingga seluruh prediksi harus tepat agar hasil akhirnya berhasil. Karakteristik tersebut membuat kemenangan parlay sering dianggap sebagai pencapaian yang membutuhkan ketelitian, kesabaran, dan kemampuan membaca pertandingan secara menyeluruh.

Di balik kisah kemenangan besar, terdapat banyak cerita mengenai hasil yang tidak pernah diperkirakan sebelumnya. Tim unggulan dapat kehilangan poin di menit-menit akhir, sementara tim yang dipandang sebagai underdog justru tampil luar biasa. Situasi seperti inilah yang membuat kemenangan pasaran parlay terasa begitu istimewa. Bukan semata karena nilai kemenangan, tetapi karena perjalanan menuju hasil tersebut dipenuhi dinamika yang sulit ditebak.

Pendekatan yang berlandaskan analisis tetap menjadi fondasi utama. Memahami performa tim dalam beberapa pertandingan terakhir, kondisi pemain inti, strategi pelatih, hingga jadwal yang padat merupakan bagian dari proses pengambilan keputusan. Pengalaman menunjukkan bahwa keputusan terbaik biasanya lahir dari informasi yang lengkap, bukan sekadar mengikuti opini populer.

Strategi Cerdas di Balik Kemenangan yang Tak Terduga

Banyak orang mengira kemenangan parlay hanya bergantung pada keberuntungan. Faktanya, berbagai pengamat olahraga dan pemain berpengalaman memiliki pandangan berbeda. Mereka menempatkan riset sebagai langkah pertama sebelum menentukan kombinasi pertandingan. Data statistik, tren performa kandang dan tandang, serta rekor pertemuan menjadi referensi yang membantu mengurangi keputusan emosional.

Dalam praktiknya, kejutan tetap menjadi bagian dari olahraga. Sebuah pertandingan dapat berubah hanya karena satu kartu merah, pergantian pemain yang efektif, atau gol pada masa tambahan waktu. Faktor-faktor tersebut membuat hasil akhir sulit diprediksi secara mutlak. Namun, justru di sinilah daya tarik parlay muncul. Kombinasi analisis yang matang dengan dinamika pertandingan menciptakan pengalaman yang penuh tantangan.

Dari sudut pandang pengalaman, banyak pemain berpengalaman memilih jumlah kombinasi yang masih realistis dibanding mengejar peluang kemenangan besar dengan terlalu banyak pilihan. Pendekatan tersebut membantu menjaga kualitas analisis pada setiap pertandingan. Mereka juga cenderung menghindari keputusan tergesa-gesa hanya karena mengikuti tren sesaat di media sosial.

Aspek kredibilitas informasi juga memiliki peran penting. Mengandalkan statistik resmi, berita terbaru mengenai kondisi pemain, serta perkembangan tim dari sumber tepercaya akan menghasilkan keputusan yang lebih rasional.

Kemenangan pasaran parlay yang tidak terduga sering kali lahir dari kombinasi disiplin, kesabaran, dan kemampuan membaca peluang secara objektif. Hasil besar memang dapat terjadi dalam satu malam, tetapi proses di baliknya biasanya dibangun melalui kebiasaan menganalisis setiap pertandingan dengan cermat. Mereka yang konsisten mengevaluasi hasil sebelumnya juga memiliki peluang lebih baik untuk meningkatkan kualitas prediksi pada kesempatan berikutnya.

Pada akhirnya, parlay bukan sekadar mengejar kemenangan, melainkan menikmati proses memahami pertandingan dari berbagai sudut pandang. Setiap laga menghadirkan cerita, statistik, dan strategi yang berbeda. Ketika seluruh analisis berpadu dengan momen-momen tak terduga di lapangan, lahirlah kemenangan yang memberikan kepuasan tersendiri. Inilah alasan mengapa pasaran parlay tetap menjadi salah satu bentuk hiburan olahraga yang terus menarik perhatian banyak penggemar, sekaligus mengajarkan bahwa persiapan yang matang selalu memiliki nilai, meskipun hasil akhir tetap ditentukan oleh jalannya pertandingan.

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This meeting is for people who:

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The criteria for this meeting were set by the City of Toronto, which is funding this project.

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Your experiences will help us identify the changes, services and resources undocumented care workers need. We will also share information about services and support available in Toronto.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, issued an executive order Tuesday that puts a moratorium on the construction of large-scale data centers.

The pause, which will last up to a year, is the nation’s first statewide ban on data centers, which have drawn increasing concern from lawmakers and citizens based on their impact on electricity prices and the energy grid.

“As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it’s my responsibility to take action and lead,” Hochul said in a statement.

Technology companies have invested billions of dollars to build data centers all across the country, driven in part by the computing demands from artificial intelligence.

In her executive order, Hochul directed the state Department of Public Service to issue no new permits for large-scale data centers for a  year. During that period, the agency will conduct an environmental analysis on the impacts of data centers, along with a proceeding to “require data centers to either pay more for their energy or supply their own.”

New York lawmakers passed a more extensive data center moratorium last month, but Hochul has not said whether she will sign the bill.

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Maine Governor Janet Mills, also a Democrat, vetoed a measure earlier this year that would have been the first statewide data center ban.

In a news release, Hochul also directed the state’s economic development agency to develop a framework that local communities can use to negotiate with tech companies that seek to construct data centers. That framework will focus on infrastructure improvements, child care investments, direct financial support, and labor and wage standards.

She also announced plans for a fund that would require data centers to invest in New York’s grid infrastructure and clean energy supply. And she called on lawmakers to repeal the state’s sales tax exemptions for large data centers.

Across the country, data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols. Several cities and counties will vote on ballot measures this year to restrict the development of new data centers.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline New York governor orders first statewide data center moratorium on Jul 18, 2026.

Each week, Food Tank is rounding up a few news stories that inspire excitement, infuriation, or curiosity.

700,000 Dead from USAID’s Dismantling

An estimated 700,000 people have died from the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to Atul Gawande, USAID’s former Assistant Administrator for Global Health.

During a recent interview on The New Yorker Radio Hour, Gawande discussed what has happened in the aftermath of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts to USAID.

Elon Musk has repeatedly stated there’s no evidence that the cuts caused a single death. But Dr. Gawande says this simply isn’t true.  While the closure of USAID means that we also lost some of the best data and tracking systems, it is clear that the abrupt disappearance of aid supporting nutrition security and maternal health has led to devastating consequences. 

It takes years to recover the expertise and infrastructure of our global public health systems, eradicate preventable diseases, build surveillance for pandemics, reduce malnutrition, Gawande says. “And if we’re divided about that and it becomes political fodder, the institutions can’t function and we won’t be able to make a way forward. He argues it’s important to return to a place “where we believe that these kinds of institutions are what we all want.”

Ugandan Farmers Push Back against East African Oil Pipeline

A group of farmers in Uganda filed a lawsuit in the UK High Court against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. 

In the lawsuit against the UK-registered company, the farmers allege the $5.6 billion project violates legislation that protects citizens’ right to a clean and healthy environment. They argue it affects more than 100,000 people—mostly producers—through land acquisition and threatens biodiversity by crossing through freshwater systems and protected habitats.

Avaaz, an NGO supporting the farmers, calls the litigation the “first-of-its-kind” and says it is a “global test case for whether new fossil fuel megaprojects can still be forced through despite mounting legal, financial, climate, and community opposition.” 

The project is being built to carry crude oil from Ugandan fields to Tanzania. According to developers, the 1,444 kilometer pipeline is nearly 80 percent complete. Avaaz says this is the “final chance to stop one of the worst oil pipelines on the planet.”

U.S. Farmers Win Right to Repair

Farmers in the United States secured the right to repair last week when the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with John Deere. 

Previously, faulty equipment could only be fixed by dealers authorized by John Deere. The company also kept independent repair companies from accessing the necessary tools. This drove up costs for farmers and increased wait times. 

Under the settlement, which was filed as part of a lawsuit in January 2025, this changes. The decision “enables farmers to do what they’ve done for generations—fix their own tractors and other farm equipment—without having to pay an authorized John Deere dealer to do it for them,” says Daniel Guarnera, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition.

‘Super’ El Nino May Cause Food Price Shock into 2028

Economists warn that the extreme weather events expected from El Niño may cause a nearly 16 percent spike in global food commodities that lasts into 2028.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs say countries are already seeing changes—with some regions of India receiving just a quarter of their usual rainfall—and the global impacts are likely to ramp up as we reach the end of 2026. 

The Iran war has already pushed world food prices to the highest levels in three years and El Nino means that supply chains now face “two shocks at once.” According to the Italian bank UniCredit, climateflation is “back on the agenda” as El Nino compounds the effects of the climate crisis.

A School Farm Program in Kenya Pays Off

In Kenya’s Kajiado County, one school has more than doubled enrollment thanks to a farm pilot program. 

Inaarok Lukuny Comprehensive School is one of four schools in Kajiado and Isiolo counties that were selected to convert unused land into working farms as part of a project led by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation alongside university partners, government agencies, and local groups. Inaarok converted dry, uncultivated land into a four-acre farm growing maize, beans, cowpeas, green grams, and leafy vegetables.

Inaarok’s head teacher says that the farm has allowed them to integrate more nutritious foods into school meals, which helped boost enrollment from 240 to more than 525 students over the last year.

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