Burning plastic Indonesia
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Burning Plastic for Heating, Cooking, Poisons Poor Families

PERTH, Western Australia, January 8, 2026 (ENS) – A new Curtin University-led study has shed fresh light on the number of households in developing countries that are burning plastic as an everyday energy source, giving rise to serious international health, social equality, and environmental concerns. […]

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Land Use/Forests

West Bank Farmers ‘Cut Off’ from Their Heritage Olive Trees

THE WEST BANK, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from the olive trees that have sustained his family for generations. Like thousands of Palestinian farmers, he faces growing restrictions from Israeli forces and settlers, who have made the olive harvest season – which runs from September to November – a time of uncertainty and struggle. […]