Subjects Archives: Ecology

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.

The era of growth at any cost has officially yielded to a model defined by three pillars: domestic demand, technological self-reliance, and a radical green transition.

As David Holt, Mayor of Oklahoma City, remarked to Politico last month, “If you had asked me about data centers five months ago, I would have said: ‘What’s a data center?”

Microplastics are pervasive pollutants that accumulate in marine ecosystems and enter the human food chain.

Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

In each country, the far right has its own characteristics: in many cases (Europe, the United States, India), the ‘enemy’—i.e. the scapegoat—is the Muslims and/or the immigrants; in some Muslim countries, it is some religious minority (Christians, Jews, Yezidis).

The Cuban Government, with China’s support, is rapidly deploying 5,000 solar systems, focused on hospitals, polyclinics and maternal homes, as well as water pumping stations and telecommunications nodes, to combat a severe energy crisis exacerbated by U.S. sanctions.

“We understood that producing green coffee was not enough. The only solution was to advance toward control over the entire production process.”

Wastewater handling varies by facility.

Modern environmental crises are not accidental byproducts of economic activity but expressions of a structural contradiction embedded within capitalism’s organization.

Local governments are not waiting for state capitols: at least 63 local data-center moratorium actions have been introduced, considered, or adopted across dozens of towns and counties.

In recent years, taxidermied and framed bats have become popular as Halloween décor and, oddly, as Christmas tree decorations, sold to customers in the U.S., as well as Europe and Canada.

India’s present-day rulers should exercise their prerogative to take independent decisions. But, for that to happen, as Rabindranath Tagore wrote, the mind should first be without fear and the head held high. 

Meet the coal plants that Trump and AI are restarting.

Our species’ origin and destiny are entangled with the roots and branches of trees.

“We asked ourselves: if coffee shapes our culture as growers, if it organizes our daily life, and if we already cooperate in so many ways, why shouldn’t we also come together economically?”

Guano, global inequality, and the long history of shifting environmental costs from centres of power to distant and expendable regions.

When nations with well-resourced intelligence gathering services, like the United Kingdom and Australia, choose to shield their citizens from the very real impacts of planetary warming and ecological disruption, they risk aligning themselves with climate denialism efforts like those occurring in the United States, such as current National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to excise any mention of climate change from the spy community’s most recent Annual Threat Assessment.

Conflict has torn Sudan apart.