Athens: Squatters face prison after years of repression

Campaign launched to cover appeal costs for Koukaki Squats Community ~ Kate Moschou ~ As their appeal trial approaches, members of the Koukaki Squats Community in central Athens have launched a funding campaign to help cover mounting legal costs. Several comrades face 6.5 years in prison after being convicted on three misdemeanour charges, following

Of cats and boxes: A paradox of Schrödinger’s paradox

From Chiapas, thoughts on the refusal to walk into traps—and the rebellion to fight our way out ~ ͶÀTIꟼAƆ ⅃Ǝ ~ Erwin Schrödinger , who apparently wasn’t very fond of house cats, proposed a theoretical exercise for quantum physics. The approach is simple, although its implications are very complex. A cat has been placed

Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation

Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity continues to decline. Communities are too often displaced in the name of conservation.

Indigenous Amazonians win landmark ruling against mercury pollution in Colombia

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has issued a historic ruling, finding in favor of Indigenous leaders who say their communities in the country’s Amazonian region are at risk of losing their identity and disappearing due to mercury contamination from gold mining.

Community patrolling reduces crime numbers in the Amazon, study shows

A study conducted in the Brazilian Amazon has found that community-based volunteer patrolling efforts in two protected areas were associated with an 80% reduction in recorded environmental crimes from 2003-13.

Oil and plastic pollution from shipwreck raises concerns, legal scrutiny in India

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s southern state of Kerala, local residents were first bemused, then baffled.

Antarctic coalition wins €1m prize for safeguarding a fragile frontier

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), an advocacy group focused on the world’s coldest and most remote region, has received the 2025 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. The 1 million euro ($1.

Global March to Gaza Violently Repressed by Egyptian Authorities

Thousands of people departed Cairo on June 13 in an attempt to break the siege of Gaza and demand an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people.