Subjects Archives: Ecology

Time to stop flogging it.

The shimmer of nuclear power seems to be growing brighter of late, ensnaring even those on the left.

The latest round of country climate plans ‘barely move the needle’ on future warming, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned.

Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism.

David Hundeyin is a Nigerian investigative journalist, bestselling author, and founder of West Africa Weekly, an independent Pan-African digital news publication focusing on West Africa and the Sahel region.

“Nature is the proof of dialectics,” Friedrich Engels wrote. The accelerating climate crisis brings us more proof of that assertion.

As a component of the total impact on the environment, called ecological footprint, a carbon footprint can be expressed as the amount of land or biocapacity required to absorb CO2 emissions.

Hurricane Melissa has left a trail of devastation through the Antilles with over 30 deaths in Haiti and Jamaica to date.

Opposition to data centres has been rapidly spreading internationally due to their fast-growing resource demands. DCs have been proliferating, driven by the popularity of artificial intelligence.

Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

It’s time to splash our faces with cold water, ask how and at what cost that water made it to our taps, and recognize that our economy can’t keep growing exponentially.

In The Graduate (1967), a family friend corners young Benjamin Braddock with one word of advice for his future: “Plastics.”

The effects of climate change are disproportionately felt by the working class, with billions of workers forced to toil in conditions of excessive heat.

We have all the evidence that the solutions are scalable, and [if we act decisively] we would become winners in terms of modernity, security, peace and health, but also in terms of equity.

One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature—returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results

Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

In 2009, scientists from Bicol and Kochi universities in the Philippines and Japan, respectively reported their study on the overfishing of three Siganid species in Lagonoy Gulf. These species belong to the same family as “Bataway.”  In fact,  one of the three is considered synonymous to the “Bataway” species.  

China is establishing a world leadership role via green energy as the consummate bargaining tool.

Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions.

Despite critiques that point out lack of market regulation, poor climate performance of markets, the social inequalities they reinforce and generate, and misuse/manipulation by actors uninterested in climate mitigation, VCMs are being considered as useful instruments for gender-sensitive climate change policy.