Subjects Archives: Ecology

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?

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.

Most of the fires have been caused by deliberate burning of lands and improper disposal of highly polluting waste.

Burkina Faso will nationalize two gold mines at a cost of about US$80 million.

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.

It was only 3 years ago when a group of distinguished climate scientists led by Erin C. Pettit (Oregon State University) said Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf of the Thwaites Glacier/Antarctica, aka: Doomsday Glacier, could collapse “within as little as 5 years.”

As hunger threatens millions in southern Africa, some of the governments in these wildlife-rich countries have started harvesting game such as elephants, hippopotamuses, buffaloes, zebras, and others to feed their citizens.

The ‘degrowth’ debate raises critical issues to which only a Marxist approach can provide answers, argues the Marx Memorial Library.

The Argentine president’s reformist agenda seeks to eliminate environmental, social and human rights protection standards in order to attract foreign investment.Booming demand for lithium plays a key role in Milei’s new policy.

The post-Malabo process to determine the next decade of agricultural policy has so far been characterised by outside influence and exclusivity.

The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there.

Gavin Newsom’s ‘War on Rooftop Solar’ is a bad omen for the Country.

CounterSpin interview with Keith McHenry on criminalizing homelessness.

Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.

‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’

Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.

The damage to Florida’s coral reef is irreversible, but that doesn’t mean we can give up fighting for it.

Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023.

To say capitalism kills is not hyperbole: it is simply incompatible with continuing life on Earth.

A £150 million waste-to-energy plant sited just 300 yards from a primary school and burning a staggering 150,000 tonnes of unrecycleable waste a year was brought to a standstill on Saturday as Climate Camp Scotland and local campaigners stood together on the picket line.