Subjects Archives: Ecology

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. 

EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) issued an ultimatum to insurance bosses today as the climate group gears up for a week of protests across the country.

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.

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.

CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on insurance and climate.

Scientists warn: ‘The future of humanity hangs in the balance.’

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.

Andy Higginbottom reviews Adam Hanieh’s crucial new book, Crude Capitalism.

The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.

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.