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Canada’s political elites are climate criminals in the pocket of Big Oil
The promises of environmental stewardship from Canada’s political establishment clash with its support for fossil fuel interests.
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33,147,744 people in the United States currently face extreme weather alerts
Climate change is making weather more extreme. This tool shows how many people across the United States face risks right now from wildfires, flooding, tropical storms, or extreme heat.
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Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war
More and more, desperate people seeking refuge in Europe are not just fleeing from economic disaster and war. Many are also refugees from climate collapse.
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Beyond the Greece Boat Disaster: Tracing the Roots of the Migration Crisis
Today’s immigrant policies and political discourses across most parts of the Global North are reminiscent of a colonial Othering.
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Global warming and water privatization
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recently declared a state of emergency in the capital, Montevideo, due to water shortages.
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Insurance industry refuses policies to those most in need as climate change unfolds
State Farm recently announced that it is halting new insurance policies for homeowners in the state of California, where the agency is currently the top insurance provider, due to rising “catastrophe exposure” coupled with inflating construction costs.
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Europe – fastest warming continent in world since 1980s, says WMO
Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 °C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO Regions
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Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames
Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.
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Sabotage in the time of the Anthropocene
A review of Daniel Goldhaber’s film adaptation of Swedish author Andreas Malm’s polarizing book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’.
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How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
Under current climate change policies, billions will face life-threatening heat. But a global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 4% in the first quarter of 2023, reaching a record high for the first three months of the year.
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Climate change increasing La Niña & El Niño severity
During La Nina events, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are lower than the long-term average, causing cooler global temperatures and vice-versa for El Nino.
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Discussing ecology and entropy
Workers’ Liberty organises a monthly Marxist ecology reading group. This month they discussed a chapter on “Entropy and ecological economics” from ‘Marxism and Ecological Economics’ by Paul Burkett.
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The terrifying math of the incoming El Niño
We are, right now, living in a dangerously warmed climate.
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A planetary health perspective on menstruation: menstrual equity and climate action
Historically, blood-shedding has often been associated with heroic acts of valour. However, menstruation is not praised and cherished in the same way. Rather, menstruation is shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and stress, despite being a natural physiological process that occurs in a quarter of the global population.
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‘The End of Organized Humanity’
Noam Chomsky lays out the coming apocalypse without taking direct action to quell the climate crisis.
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Here comes everyone: climate, class and the movement we need
As thousands prepare to surround parliament to demand climate action, Feyzi Ismail explains the scale of the crisis and the strategy the movement needs.
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While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa
The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth.
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Universal public services: The power of decommodifying survival
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.
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The U.S. Navy and climate change
If one were only to read the headlines over the last two years, it might seem as if the U.S. military is late to the problem of climate change. However, as a large emitter of greenhouse gasses (51 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents in 2019 alone), the U.S. military has been researching, anticipating, and planning for the effects of climate change for decades.