Social Environmental News: EnvironmentalBubble

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This year, the extent of ice melt in the Arctic has opened the Northeast Passage, a shipping route from the Atlantic Ocean in Europe to the Pacific Ocean along Russia’s far northern coastline, for ice-free navigation for the fourth time in recorded history.

Fiji Water isn't just devastating to the environment of Fiji, the planet that endures the cost of shipping it, and the environments of the places where it is consumed. It is also the product of a brutal military regime that monitors all outgoing Internet traffic from the island for criticisms of the water business and immediately arrests people who transmit them, bringing them in for intensive questioning and the occasional prison-rape threat, as journalist Anna Lenzer discovered.