Author: Injusticeto Team

The ongoing fires ravaging Los Angeles, U.S., have killed at least 25 people and burned more than 12,000 buildings. Many of the structures destroyed were homes, mansions of the rich and famous and middle-class homes alike. Irrespective of the wealth of their owners, most homes destroyed likely had one thing in common: plastic. As Mongabay contributor Alden Wicker reports, modern homes that survive fires often remain uninhabitable due to the toxic chemicals released by synthetic furnishings and building materials. By 2022, more than $16 billion in plastic building materials were sold globally each year, a 50% increase in…

A Kenyan government minister has alleged that the country’s national intelligence agency was behind the abduction of his son last year, as criticism against the rising cases of abductions continues.Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi said that it took a call by President William Ruto to have his son released by the National Intelligence Service (NIS).Muturi is the first member of the cabinet to publicly criticise the government’s handling of the spate of abductions in Kenya.In a statement to the police crime investigations unit on Tuesday, Muturi gave a detailed account of how his son, Leslie, was abducted on 22…

BBCCouncillor Paul Walker says the town is multicultural and harmoniousAn investigation has been launched after graffiti bearing offensive Nazi symbolism appeared on the side of buildings in Staffordshire.Swastikas were daubed onto the side of a corner shop in the Horninglow area of Burton-on-Trent, and nearby homes were also defaced.The attack happened at about 16:00 GMT on 23 November, according to police, who are appealing for information.CCTV images show a man wearing a hood, spraying paint onto the wall of a shop on the corner of Balfour Street and Horninglow Street.It was not immediately clear why the shop and house on…

After years of halting progress, New York Governor Kathy Hochul finally signed the state’s climate superfund into law in the waning hours of 2024. The landmark legislation follows the “polluter pays” approach that a traditional, federally regulated superfund applies to ground and water pollution, and it expands the doctrine to the costs of damages from climate change, where greenhouse emissions are the analogous pollution. The law seeks to recover $75 billion from major oil and gas companies over the next 25 years, in $3 billion annual installments. New York’s law is the second of its kind in the U.S. to…

Jakarta’s age-old problem of air pollution reached record heights in 2023, posing significant health risks to its residents. Rafsi Albar scrutinises the government’s response through a human rights lens. The Indonesian public is appalled by the worsening air quality in Jakarta. The city has, for years, been plagued by worsening air quality. However, recent months have been the worst in city history. Recent reports by IQAir consistently rank Jakarta as one of the top 10 most polluted cities since May 2023, with June 14 and August 9 being the days it peaked as the world’s first most polluted city. This problem extends…

Janina RosinaJanina Bacchetta has started making a self-portrait with the threadWhile sorting through her late mother’s belongings, Janina Bacchetta had a shock when she discovered an old reel of brown cotton thread, the colour of which had been named after a racial slur.She was immediately triggered back to an early memory of experiencing racism – one that she did not understand at the time.The textile artist, from Gloucestershire, also known as Rosina Nina, has since set her mind on renaming and “reframing” the thread in a project called The Power of Words.With each reel she will quilt portrait pieces, as…

Transcript: As more people buy EVs, charging them could strain the electric grid – especially if everyone charges at times when electricity use is already high. Cody: “Typically, electricity demand is at its highest when people are getting home from work, turning on the lights, cooking dinner, running laundry.” Kendall Cody is with a startup called WeaveGrid. She says when demand is high, utilities sometimes need to turn on backup power plants, which often use dirtier fossil fuels. And it’s expensive. So WeaveGrid developed software that utilities can offer to customers who own EVs to optimize the times when they…

On January 9, 2025, the Polish government adopted a resolution that enables senior Israeli officials to participate in events commemorating the Auschwitz concentration camp’s liberation on January 27. This could include welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for atrocities in Gaza, and contradicts Poland’s legal obligation as an ICC member to comply with all ICC arrest warrants.The move followed discussion in the government on the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and comes despite Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s recent pledge to restore the rule of law in Poland and as the country takes the helm of the…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A witness broke down in tears as she described children carrying heavy objects on hilly terrain at the home of a West Virginia couple who were later arrested after two of their five adopted children were found locked in an outbuilding. The trial of Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz began Tuesday on more than a dozen counts that include forced labor, civil rights violations, human trafficking and gross child neglect. In her opening statement, assistant prosecutor Madison Tuck said evidence will show the couple forced the children to work and used them “physically, emotionally…

[Read in English here] El Año Nuevo comenzó con uno de los incendios forestales más terribles de la historia: una tormenta de fuego en el área metropolitana de Los Ángeles que ha causado la muerte de al menos cinco personas y ha reducido miles de viviendas a cenizas. Dos grandes incendios de más de 10.000 acres -el de Palisades al oeste y el de Eaton al norte – se intensificaron debido a la extrema sequía y a los vientos de Santa Ana con ráfagas de hasta 100 mph. El climatólogo Daniel Swain declaró a CNN que el incendio de Pacific…