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The Valencia floods have one clear culprit: Capitalism
Capitalism and Spain’s right wing parties are responsible for Valencia flooding deaths.
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Carbon markets and the new scramble for African land
Writing for ROAPE, Thelma Arko argues that while often presented as a solution to the climate emergency, the growth of carbon offset markets are fueling a new scramble for African land and perpetuating colonial-era exploitation. We must move beyond market-based solutions, Arko urges, to embrace strategies that centre on social equity, ecological integrity, and the rights of local communities.
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Blind Power: Nuclear plant’s irreversible impact on public and environment
Prerna Gupta talks to Dilnaz Boga about those affected by Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) in India’s thirst for electricity
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The deadly environmental toll of super-yachts and private jets
Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime.
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John Bellamy Foster Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”
Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”
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AI is pushing gas demand to ‘record highs,’ pipeline builder TC Energy says
Tech firms like Amazon and Google ‘have enormous responsibility’ for driving fossil fuel expansions, climate expert argues.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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Extinction Rebellion tells insurance firms to cut ties with fossil fuels or face protests
EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) issued an ultimatum to insurance bosses today as the climate group gears up for a week of protests across the country.
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West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass
A growing grassroots movement against forest biomass is fighting to keep the West’s trees from being burned for energy during the transition away from fossil fuels.
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The Italian workers occupying against climate crisis
Faced with the threat of mass redundancies, GKN automotive workers in Florence occupied their factory to save jobs and build green technology. Their actions can be an inspiration to British workers fighting similar fights.
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‘The insurance industry is the fossil fuel industry’
CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on insurance and climate.
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Climate crisis enters ‘critical and unpredictable new phase’
Scientists warn: ‘The future of humanity hangs in the balance.’
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John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Daniel Tutt on Georg Lukács and “The Destruction of Reason”
John Bellamy Foster speaks with Daniel Tutt about the work of István Mészáros and Paul Baran, contemporary irrationalist tendencies in left ecological thought, intensifying global class struggles, and the continued relevance of Georg Lukács’s The Destruction of Reason (1952), recently reissued with an introduction by Enzo Traverso by Verso in 2021.
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On Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism
Andy Higginbottom reviews Adam Hanieh’s crucial new book, Crude Capitalism.
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Vulture Fund Elliott chosen as winner of CITGO court-mandated auction
The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.
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Maybe we should be the ones grokking: Thoughts on Elon Musk’s xAI super-polluting supercomputer
Is it just our filter bubbles? Or is an understanding of the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) slowly making its way into the mainstream?
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Microplastics crisis: Pollution levels could double by 2040
Microplastics are small plastic particles, usually measuring less than 5 millimeters, that come from the degradation of larger plastic products or are intentionally created for industrial purposes.
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South America faces one of the worst waves of wildfires in recent years
Most of the fires have been caused by deliberate burning of lands and improper disposal of highly polluting waste.
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Burkina Faso nationalizes UK goldmines
Burkina Faso will nationalize two gold mines at a cost of about US$80 million.
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More than 2,100 land and environmental defenders killed globally between 2012 and 2023
Colombia was found to be the deadliest country in the world, with 79 deaths in total last year—compared to 60 in 2022, and 33 in 2021.