Subjects Archives: Environment

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate.

A significant economic slowdown into stagnation, alongside still relatively high inflation; a crippling debt burden for the majority of the world’s population eking out a bare living; and an accelerating climate crisis—none of these issues will be discussed in the Rockies or in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm.

​It may be ‘technically possible,’ ​to keep ​g​lobal heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen..

On the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, the findings of a new study have revealed that ocean acidification (OA)—which damages ecosystems like coral reefs—is not only getting worse, but crossed its “planetary boundary” roughly five years ago.

Nicaragua, with Chinese financing, launches its largest solar plant to date—powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrastructure for social good.

Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite.

Canada’s new liberal prime minister has given the lie to the notion that a green capitalism is possible with fossil-fuel friendly policies as the climate crisis intensifies, explains John Clarke.

New Delhi’s escalation over the Indus River isn’t just environmental–it’s strategic, existential, and signals a new front in the war of attrition with Islamabad.

At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

Temperatures hit 100°F in northern Minnesota, 112°F in Texas, and 115°F in Mexico.

In a major blow to the Paris ’15 climate agreement, last year witnessed one more nail in the coffin of the celebrated agreement to slow down CO2emissions by 2030, as CO2, for the first time in modern history, enters the scientifically established danger zone.

For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana.

The contradiction in the geographical distribution of Iraq’s population precisely reflects the contradiction in the distribution of wealth in capitalist society.

Park rangers are our most trusted federal employees, and national parks are America’s gift to the world… but the new Trump regime is choking them, depriving them of the personnel and resources they need.

Trump signed an executive order declaring all state laws that address climate change to be null and void.

Trump is bringing the contradictions of Canadian climate policy clearly into view.

One of the arguments in favour of a divine power–or god–is that life could not have arisen naturally and needed a touch of the divine to come into being.

A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative.