Tag: ecocide

“Pure arrogance”: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for data center

Miranda Bryant in Muhos and Otanmäki   October 22, 2026 Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all […]

Lebanon files UN complaint over Israeli herbicide spraying in border areas

TRT World   June 14, 2026 Beirut says laboratory tests and chemical analyses confirmed the presence of glyphosate at high concentrations in villages along Lebanon’s southern border. Lebanon’s foreign ministry has said it lodged a complaint with the United Nations over Israel’s spraying of the herbicide glyphosate in Lebanese territory near the border earlier this year. […]

Israel’s Obliteration Ecocide from Gaza to Lebanon and Beyond

By If America Knew dot org  May 5, 2026 By Dan Steinbock, Reposted from Palestine Chronicle, March 2, 2026 Israeli military aggression has “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese report (which does not consider the impacts of Israel’s latest barrage of attacks this spring). In her foreword, Lebanon’s […]