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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Microplastics

    How microplastics threaten marine ecosystems and the food chain

    Originally published: Observatory on March 23, 2026 by Erica Cirino (more by Observatory) (Posted Mar 25, 2026)

    Microplastics are pervasive pollutants that accumulate in marine ecosystems and enter the human food chain.

  • Vincent_van_Gogh

    The hidden costs of light pollution: How the night sky—and life on Earth—is at risk

    Originally published: Observatory on January 8, 2026 by Reynard Loki (more by Observatory) (Posted Jan 10, 2026)

    Artificial light may illuminate our cities, but it casts shadows over wildlife, insects, and human health while erasing the stars from our skies. From disrupted ecosystems to sleep loss, the urgent fight to reclaim the night affects everyone.

  • Conservation Innovations

    Conservation Innovations: How sustained resistance is saving one of the Earth’s most critical rainforests from corporate greed

    Originally published: Observatory on June 19, 2025 by Laurel Sutherlin (more by Observatory) (Posted Jun 25, 2025)

    As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

  • Food

    Our food system is the bullseye for solving the World’s climate challenges

    Originally published: Observatory on July 25, 2023 by Reynard Loki (more by Observatory) (Posted Aug 23, 2023)

    The industrialized food system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but it is not a major topic at climate talks.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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