Subjects Archives: Ecology

Health professionals and researchers working at the intersection of environment and health often bemoan the relative paucity of health considerations in climate policy, with health only recently (since 2023) starting to become more integrated into the formal UN climate negotiations.

‘It was the worst possible way to end the winter that was already worse than normal.’

Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science.

The planet, our democracy, our courts…

California now has about 550 more fire-friendly hours a year than it did in the 1970s.

The Sahel’s future will not be secured by border walls, bases, or markets, but by confronting the capitalist and imperialist structures that convert climate stress into dispossession and war.

The Jevons Paradox, Marx, the Modern Left, Deep Greens, AI and Collapse.

What emerges in Vida Café is not simply a set of solutions to a moment of crisis. It’s the outline of a different logic: one in which production, infrastructure, and care are organized by the people themselves, and where the capacity to respond to immediate needs opens onto the possibility of something more.

“We’re not finished learning about how to manage public lands, and this action, it kind of indicates that we’re done learning,” said Elizabeth Leger.

It is news media’s responsibility to reflect reality and to address the concerns of the communities they serve, regardless of the priorities of the administration in power. Failing to mention climate change where it is relevant will not stop it from occurring, but inattention will surely make it worse.

We have one tool to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere: the substitution of clean energy for fossil fuel.

A curious feature of capitalism is that it masks the social nature of its form of production, making it appear as if the commodities produced by “the aggregate labour of society” were actually produced “naturally”, autonomously, of their “own accord”, especially when they are encountered as finished products in the market to be bought and consumed (Capital, Volume 1, 165).

CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade.

Rising temperatures and overfishing have seen the U.K.’s iconic cod decline for over a decade. Now, consumers are warned to “completely avoid” eating the fish.

Ian Angus was interviewed by noted Marxist economist Michael Roberts about Angus’s new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

Before the war began in February 2026, there was some rare good news for Iran’s imperiled Asiatic cheetahs.

Critics say Trump’s administration has “just gone so much further” than previous Republican administrations in dismantling protections for endangered species.

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

While media coverage of Iran’s restrictions on passage through the Hormuz Straits focuses on fuel prices, closure is also disrupting crucial fertiliser supplies, risking catastrophe for billions.

A specific ideological register now dominates left-adjacent neoliberal climate politics: the grammar of responsibility and guilt, the aesthetics of urgency without adequate theory of causation, the displacement of structural questions onto individual conduct.