Subjects Archives: Ecology

“This heatwave is a dress rehearsal… they are getting more frequent, stronger and lasting longer. Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.”

Stand.earth analysis finds Microsoft’s energy-growth rate fastest among competitors, pollution growing 20% year-over-year.

Scientists warn that AI-generated and AI-enhanced wildlife images could contaminate citizen-science databases, distort species records, and undermine conservation research.

The sanctions death toll, an estimated 40,000 in 2017-18 and more than 100,000 in 2019, according to CERP and UN expert Alfred de Zayas, respectively, never received attention from the media, but the victims of the quakes are portrayed as the government’s fault.

Guinea-Bissau’s geography had always made it profitable for smuggling–particularly in the Bijagós archipelago, with its more than eighty islands and complex coastal waterways.

These toys of the ultrarich are environmentally destructive and multiplying fast. They should not exist.

At the Marxism 2026 conference in Toronto last month, Ian Angus spoke at a release event for his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food.

The U.S. has arrived at a crucial juncture for public health and climate governance.

Fire survivors say using prediction markets to gamble on wildfire is “morally reprehensible.”

IT IS RARE that a single scientific paper shapes how people think about a challenge as daunting as climate change. But one, known as “Wedges,” published 22 years ago by researchers at Princeton University, told an irresistible story. 

Phosphate fertilizer is essential to industrial agriculture. Washington’s war on Iran has disrupted the routes that carry Gulf oil, gas, petrochemicals and fertilizer to the world market.

The ground had hardly stopped shaking before Washington began advancing its agenda.

Venezuela is rebuilding amid an information war that obscures the effects of sanctions, frozen assets, and decades of U.S. economic warfare–and turns human suffering into another pretext to discredit the Bolivarian process.

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These two conflicts, the aerial and the environmental, are interconnected. Both reflect a struggle for survival shaped by a Pakistani state that has prioritized military spending over water security, geopolitical interests over ecological planning, and the interests of large landowners over those of small farmers.

Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism’s inability to deal with it.

The earthquake in Venezuela, heartbreaking by every measure, has been made far more lethal—both in its immediate impact and long-term consequences—by factors directly attributable to U.S. imperialism’s ongoing, multi-level assault on the country and its people.

With extreme weather events worsening each year, and the world on track to surpass by 2030 the Paris Agreement’s attempt to limit global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, connecting these disruptive and deadly events to climate change is a key part of the story.

On June 24, Venezuela shook under the successive impact of two earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.