Subjects Archives: Ecology

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.

A Polen Ekoloji seminar featuring John Bellamy Foster on the theoretical and historical background of Marx, the Anthropocene, and the metabolic rift.

It is inevitable that such an event, in which there is a race against time and the elements, should attract the interest and concern of tens of millions.

Even if Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito had not written Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, the left today would still need to take the idea of degrowth seriously. This is because, economist and anthropologist Jason Hickel explains, “while it’s possible to transition to 100 percent renewable energy, we cannot do it fast enough to stay under 1.5°C or 2°C if we continue to grow the global economy at existing rates.”

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

How is it that a country like Argentina, with its vast rural territory, longstanding agricultural tradition, and capacity to produce food for hundreds of millions of people, is plagued by hunger and malnourishment?

While a geopolitical tussle between Washington and Beijing over Zambia’s debt default has received significant international attention, Canada’s contribution has been largely ignored.

The 2019 Global Climate Strike—in which more than 6 million people from 150 countries partook—is a misnomer.

Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much-promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production.

In 2021, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) noted that Argentina remains ‘a major exporter of agricultural products’, which, at that time, accounted for nearly two-thirds of the country’s exports (as of April 2023, agricultural goods accounted for 56.4% of the country’s exports).

Or is Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation?

An innovative form of food distribution has been key for schools and communes.

Stuart Jordan responds to criticism of his article on ecology and entropy in Solidarity 672

Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.

A grassroots organization is building a new model for the production and distribution of food based on mutuality.

The recent Colorado River water deal reached between the three lower basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada is being celebrated by the corporate media as “historic,” although final approval by the Department of Interior is still pending.

A review of Daniel Goldhaber’s film adaptation of Swedish author Andreas Malm’s polarizing book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’.

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.

When I sat down with Eric Huntley it was under the premise of interviewing him about the new community garden that he has established—along with filmmaker and organiser Sukant Chandan—in the London borough of Ealing, just minutes away from where he and his late-wife, Jessica Huntley, ran their bookshop and publishing house.

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.