Subjects Archives: Ecology

The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. This is worsening inequalities, both nationally and internationally.

Of all the issues currently facing humanity, there is none so existential as the climate and environmental crisis. 

The U.S. climate movement claims to fight for change while systematically silencing radical action. This isn’t resistance. It’s controlled opposition dressed in green.

AI doesn’t run on magic—it runs on energy, water, and massive physical infrastructure.

Fox News’ America Reports hosted Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to repeal the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, which affirmed that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare and which has served as the legal foundation for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act.

As climate collapse accelerates, its unequal impacts reveal the class divisions at its core.

Against Trump’s threat to raise tariffs against imports from China, the Chinese government announced a temporary moratorium on the export of certain rare earth elements to the U.S.

In 1958 the assistant headmaster did the Bible reading at the morning assembly of the Karachi Grammar School (Pakistan), founded in 1848 by the Church of England. The reading from Acts 17:23 concerned St. Paul’s declaration upon seeing the Athenian monument to an unknown God. “What you worship but do not know—this is what I […]

Despite this dire backsliding on climate policy, with consequences that are clear as day, it’s business as usual in the realm of business news.

Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas.

John Foster’s early research looked at how money and power work. He studied how big companies grow and affect the economy. His first book, The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism, explored these ideas.

As record-breaking heat waves sweep across the country this summer, a new national poll reveals an overwhelming majority of Americans are linking the punishing temperatures to climate change—and voicing deep concern about the government’s ability to respond.

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is now very close to 429 parts per million.

On the morning of January 21, 1960, 431 black and six white coal miners were entombed in a sudden collapse at Clydesdale Collieries near Coalbrook in Sasolburg, Free State Province.[1] The first rockfall took place at about 4:30 p.m. No one was killed or severely injured. While the rock still creaked and split, many of […]

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

Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate.

A significant economic slowdown into stagnation, alongside still relatively high inflation; a crippling debt burden for the majority of the world’s population eking out a bare living; and an accelerating climate crisis—none of these issues will be discussed in the Rockies or in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm.

​It may be ‘technically possible,’ ​to keep ​g​lobal heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen..

On the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, the findings of a new study have revealed that ocean acidification (OA)—which damages ecosystems like coral reefs—is not only getting worse, but crossed its “planetary boundary” roughly five years ago.

Nicaragua, with Chinese financing, launches its largest solar plant to date—powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrastructure for social good.