Subjects Archives: Environment

Dems touting a bill to expand fossil fuel pipelines have not released any emissions projections showing what the bill would do to the climate.

In backing Joe Manchin’s “permitting reform,” the president could undermine his own EPA initiative.

It is incumbent upon us as a species to seriously consider radical alternative, anti-capitalist and ecological futures

As devastating as Trump (4 more years?) was for the environment, President Jair Bolsonaro’s MBGA or Make Brazil Great Again has one-upped Trump. He’s single-handedly destroying the world’s largest rainforest. It may be the single most important ecosystem for the survival of Homo sapiens. As such, with such a big important target to ravage, Bolsonaro’s making Trump look weak.

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Calamities are familiar to the people of Pakistan who have struggled through several catastrophic earthquakes, including those in 2005, 2013, and 2015 (to name the most damaging), as well as the horrendous floods of 2010. However, nothing could prepare the fifth most populated […]

Jackson, Mississippi is currently suffering through an unprecedented water crisis.

Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”

Dangerous heat waves to hit three times more often than today; tropical regions including India likely to face extreme heat conditions almost daily by the end of this century.

In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference.

McGuire: Around 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere in the last couple of centuries. This is acting as a blanket, keeping in heat that would otherwise head off into space.

Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis of climate change and housing shortages—two topics at the top of the list of discussions in the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

‘Time to call a spade a spade ….’

Luxury cruises are an expression of capitalism’s worst instincts.

Sanctions against Russia and Europe’s worst drought in 500 years are amplifying the energy crisis in countries such as Italy, France, and Germany.

The unprecedented move arrives as southwestern states wrangle over how to cut water use.

It’s not a mirage. Across China, heat waves are becoming more frequent, lasting longer, and getting hotter — with deadly consequences.

Nicolas Graham’s book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke

Because the changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for everyone are so big, they require determined social movements with wide participation. But while history shows that inertia and defeatism can become self-fulfilling, it also shows that governments ultimately have to respond to popular pressure–or be replaced by it.

Scenes and pictures have been circulating of broken earth, lacking moisture, cracked and yearning. But these are not from traditional drought-stricken parts of the planet, where the animal carcass assumes near totemic power amidst dry riverbeds or desert expanses.

Reservoirs in the Rio Grande Valley are running dry—sparking emergency water conservation measures.