Geography Archives: Global

Despite 14 member states voting in favor, the U.S., as a permanent member, exercised its veto for the fifth time since October 2023.

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down.

There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on.

In a new study, led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and published today (18 November) in Nature, an international group of authors who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on ‘natural carbon sinks’ like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use will not actually stop global warming.

Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South”

Crisis is endemnic to capitalism, writes Alex Snowdon in his monthly Marxism 101 column.

The streaming giant’s move has sparked criticism from entertainment workers and activists.

Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’–a right that is intimately tied to liberalism–cultivates a politics of anger.

Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate.

Understanding and truth are our best weapons against an exploitative society based on lies.

Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania.

The BRICS declaration presumes that the international institutions in their current state are flawed because they are dominated by imperialist countries and are not representative enough; but they are flawed because their very essence is flawed, no matter how they are governed.

Simply put, lawfare is war by other means that achieves conquest using laws and judges instead of bombs and bullets.

Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist.

AI is creating a bonanza for tech companies and is being cast as a cleaner way to wage war, but the human cost is devastating.

The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many.

Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime.

A tireless fighter for justice, Lowkey’s tracks have become anthems in the anti-war movement, particularly in the struggle for Palestine liberation. “Soundtrack to the Struggle 3” is no different and provides a political snapshot in time, taking on issues such as the genocide in Gaza, the persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, and the pervasive surveillance power of our smartphones.

My engagement with Marx in this book is ultimately an act of critical dialogue–of thinking with as well as across and through his texts toward multiple unforeseen destinations.

The UN special rapporteur on health accused world leaders of bankruptcy for failing to stop the genocide in Gaza.