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El Niño is being supersized before our eyes
El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of floods, drought and extreme heat, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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Emissions, sea level and ocean heat reach record highs
Meteorologists’ report shows record and near-record temperatures across the globe in 2025.
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Sink the superyachts!
These toys of the ultrarich are environmentally destructive and multiplying fast. They should not exist.
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Why Socialists Must Understand Metabolic Rifts
At the Marxism 2026 conference in Toronto last month, Ian Angus spoke at a release event for his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.
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Social Murder: Pandemic profits and vaccine apartheid
In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a single pill of Daraprim, an antiparasitic drug used by cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750.00.
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Marxist theory and the global ecological crisis
Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.
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A new reign of climate chaos
Capitalism is pushing humanity beyond the ecological limits that made civilization possible.
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‘Huge transformation’ shrinks Antarctic sea ice to record lows
For decades, the Southern Ocean defied global warming trends – until 2015.
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Earth in 2050: A stark vision of environmental decline
UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctions, economic crises.
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Metabolic Rifts: Ian Angus Interviewed by Michael Roberts
Ian Angus was interviewed by noted Marxist economist Michael Roberts about Angus’s new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.
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A planet poisoned by plastic
Part Three of a series. Plastics are a delivery system for 16,000 potentially toxic chemicals.
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Deadly heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years after net zero
Study shows that the hotter climate regime will last centuries, not decades.
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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.
