Gary Belan

Jul 5, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Gary Belan |Sagar Dhara |Mohd Khan |Marwan Asmar

A Bittersweet Rediscovery of the Rarest Kangaroo AliveIn the dense, emerald heart of the Wondiwoi Mountains, in West Papua the trees echo with the haunting refrains of the vogelkop superb bird-of-paradise. Underfoot, the ground is soggy and dense with mossy herbaceous fragrances and the scuttling of an eastern long-beaked echidna as she burrows into her subterranean domain. In 2018, an extraordinary moment was captured forever on camera in 2018.

Jun 13, 2024 | laprogressive.com | Gary Belan

Water is life. To ensure the health and well-being of our families and future generations, we must do more to guard the waters that run through our rivers. Water is life. To ensure the health and well-being of our families and future generations, we must do more to guard the waters that run through our rivers. It’s impossible to underscore the importance of healthy rivers: 60 percent of the drinking water supply in the United States comes from rivers.

Jun 12, 2024 | nationofchange.org | Gary Belan

This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Gary Belan is the senior director of clean water supply at American Rivers. It’s impossible to underscore the importance of healthy rivers: 60 percent of the drinking water supply in the United States comes from rivers.

Jun 11, 2024 | znetwork.org | Gary Belan

It’s impossible to underscore the importance of healthy rivers: 60 percent of the drinking water supply in the United States comes from rivers. And while your tap water may be clean, unfortunately, tens of millions of Americans don’t have the same assurance, and this problem is only escalating, particularly with so-called “forever chemicals” like PFAS . In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to the Clean Water Act with its ruling in Sackett v. EPA.

Jun 10, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Thomas Klikauer |Gary Belan |Joseph Benny |Danny Antonell

by Thomas Klikauer and Danny AntonelliScreenshot: German Public TV https://www.dw.com/en/german-authorities-to-expand-crackdown-on-right-wing-extremists/a-50833344Right-wing extremism is on the march almost everywhere in Europe. As Lenin once said: Fascism is capitalism in decay. So “What is to be done? How can we fight far-right extremism, in particular Germany’s most prominent neofascist political party the right-wing extremist AfD?