Geography Archives: Global

JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world.

Will the developed countries, the ones most responsible for this danger, finally face the situation, or will they wait until it is too late for everyone?

More than one quarter of all federal lobbyists are now lobbying on AI issues.

To understand why work feels so meaningless today, we need to look at what human labor had to become for capitalism to come into existence.

“Delinking means not submitting to the logic of the global capitalist system, and rejecting the inevitability of passively adapting to the requirements of integration into the world system”  (Samir Amin, Beyond US Hegemony? Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World, Zed Books, 2006, p. 27).

A new study suggests climate models may be overestimating how much carbon forests will absorb in a warming world, raising the possibility that global temperatures could rise even more than current projections anticipate.

At this hour, solidarity begins with a clear demand: the United States and Israel must end their illegal war, and they must retreat.

No longer is economics ‘a dismal science’ that Thomas Carlyle was claimed to have called it in the mid-19th century. 

The water will recede. It always does. What matters is what we do in the months it leaves us.

In 2024, dozens of prominent researchers wrote an article in Science that introduced the world to a dizzying concept: the existential perils of so-called “mirror-life,” a type of organism based on molecular structures not found on Earth.

We have to get back the kind of public intellectuals, real left intellectuals, Marxist intellectuals who are not just academics.

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.

Species that have evolved in stable environments, shaped by millions of years of constancy, may be the first to suffer.

IN June 2026, The Nature Index, one of the most well-regarded barometers of high-quality research, issued the annual Research Leaders rankings.

Meteorologists’ report shows record and near-record temperatures across the globe in 2025.

Oman’s lesser-known communist separatist guerrilla. Today in 1965, Dhofar’s independence movement took up armed struggle.

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.