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Emission reductions: Promises, promises, promises
COP30 meets ten years after the Paris Agreement, and Earth is warming faster than ever.
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Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises
Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions.
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Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed
Study shows U.S. death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050.
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Who is responsible for heat that kills?
The danger to human life lies not so much in heat as in heat waves, extreme events that have more than doubled in frequency and length in recent decades.
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Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is now very close to 429 parts per million.
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Global heating isn’t just getting worse. It is getting worse faster.
Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate.
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1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?
It may be ‘technically possible,’ to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen..
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Why we need to stop capitalism’s runaway train: Interview with Ian Angus
Michael Lavalette spoke to leading ecosocialist Ian Angus about capitalisms’ ecocide, Trump and what we need to do stop global heating.
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The deadly environmental toll of super-yachts and private jets
Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 8): Deadly heat
‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets
Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 6): China’s livestock revolution
The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable.
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Capitalism’s new age of plagues (Part 5): The pandemic machines
In March, Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, reported that chickens in one of its Texas egg factories had contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Type A–better known as Bird Flu. To stop the disease from spreading, the corporation slaughtered 1.6 million birds.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 4)
Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 3)
Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?
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Top geology body denies appeal, rejects Anthropocene proposal
Ruling ends formal discussion in official geological organization.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 2)
Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 1)
In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.
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Anti-Anthropocene vote is ‘null and void’
Commission chairs say organizers of ballot violated statutes and ignored scientific evidence.
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Nature’s heartbeat, visualized
A stunning animation displays the pulse of the Earth System’s metabolism.
