Subjects Archives: Ecology

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.

As temperatures in large parts of the Earth are soaring (cf. 52.3°C in Delhi, flames engulf large regions in California, tornadoes ravage the Gulf of Mexico states, severe drought starve populations in southern Africa and climate extremes continue to taking over large parts of the Earth.

In the past few years, whole towns have been wiped out by fire and flood, suburbs have been inundated by floodwaters or storm surges in Sydney and Melbourne, and extreme heat is putting more people in hospitals.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables.

CEOs state outright that profit must come first, even as this year’s deadly heat waves providing worrying evidence of the rising climate emergency, reports John Clarke.

While tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods grab headlines, extreme heat is the top weather-related killer, says FEMA.

This month brought yet another record-breaking spate of flash floods and deadly heatwaves across the U.S.

There is no path to a renewable future which leaves American hegemony in place.

New defence policy promises to expand NORAD, NATO amid vulnerable oceanic ecosystem.

Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts—and they overlap more than you’d think.

Addressing climate change requires a comprehensive, equitable, and pragmatic approach that prioritizes substantial emissions reductions and supports vulnerable populations most affected by global heating.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, and meteorologists expect a bad one.