Subjects Archives: Environment

“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.

Study shows U.S. death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050.

In her thought-provoking blog, Celiwe Mxhalisa shines light on how capitalism has moved beyond exploiting natural resources to commodifying its own waste and pollution. This shift has created a new form of exploited labour, termed “counter-productive labour,” exemplified by recycle-for-pay activities that extract value from the dross of capitalist production. Mxhalisa views this new exploitation as a harbinger of doom, intensifying the incoherence of a system that produces more rubbish than goods in the name of profit.

The danger to human life lies not so much in heat as in heat waves, extreme events that have more than doubled in frequency and length in recent decades.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have risen over the last two centuries, with current and accumulated emissions per capita from rich nations greatly exceeding those of the Global South.

The Africa Climate Summit is a greenwashing front for a new wave of colonialism. Under the guise of “nature-based solutions,” corporations like the Gates Foundation are pushing schemes that will turn the continent into a carbon sink for the world’s worst polluters.

“Accelerating climate disruption is the greatest threat to the human future: our safety and well-being, our homes and communities, and how and where we live and work,” a group of leading Australian military and security experts says.