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Iraq – Rising temperatures increasing poverty and unemployment
The contradiction in the geographical distribution of Iraq’s population precisely reflects the contradiction in the distribution of wealth in capitalist society.
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America’s national parks are among the victims of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to drown our government in a bathtub
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.
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Trump declares all state environmental laws to be null and void
Trump signed an executive order declaring all state laws that address climate change to be null and void.
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Canada’s support for LNG is support for Trump’s new form of fossil-fuelled fascism
Trump is bringing the contradictions of Canadian climate policy clearly into view.
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Advancing the boundaries of science: From Oparin, Haldane, Bernal to today
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.
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Discovery of immense methane leaks in Antarctica
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.
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The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.
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Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report
The Trump administration told U.S. government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report—the latest move to withdraw the U.S. from global climate action and research.
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Cuts to U.S. weather and climate research could put public safety at risk
Firings and budget cuts could slow emergency disaster response and weaken resilience efforts.
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How climate denial is fueling a U.S. homeowners insurance crisis and risking a 2008-style financial meltdown
New research reveals that rising insurance costs, reckless building, regulatory inaction, and big banks’ fossil fuel investments are driving a dangerous cycle that jeopardizes homeowners—and financial stability for everyone.
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A day without NOAA, a day without the National Weather Service?
What is your morning routine? Wake up, maybe make coffee, tea, or other morning beverage or meal, check the weather.
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Clean waters and green mountains are as valuable as gold and silver mountains: The Seventh Newsletter (2025)
What new worlds can science fiction imagine? From clean energy to ecological transitions, this newsletter explores how Global South writers and policymakers alike imagine–and create–futures beyond colonialism, pollution, and environmental destruction.
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“Under the eye of the big bird”
A science fiction novel about the future of nature and technology reviewed by Ian Parker.
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Socialism or barbarism–a statement of fact
Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
The collective energy demand of data centres in the United States is so high that Microsoft recently reached a deal to reopen Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history.
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The ocean surface is warming four times faster than in the 1980s
Ocean temperatures were rising at a rate of 0.06 °C per decade, whereas now they are increasing by 0.27 °C every ten years.
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Environment: Accelerating towards a collision with the climate
Human societies are setting themselves on a collision course with climate-induced catastrophes. Lithium-ion batteries will soon be facing competition. How to deal with x and the conflicts it creates?
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Around 242 million children missed school last year because of the climate emergency, says UN
UNICEF said the world’s schools and education systems were “largely ill equipped” to deal with the effects of extreme weather.
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78 miners found starved and dehydrated to death in South African police operation against unlicensed mining
The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine’s Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water supply in its attempt to crackdown on unlicensed mining.
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Sarah Glynn & John Clarke – “Climate Change is a Class Issue”
In January 2024, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2050 climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in damage.