Subjects Archives: Environment

Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime.

Tech firms like Amazon and Google ‘have enormous responsibility’ for driving fossil fuel expansions, climate expert argues.

EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) issued an ultimatum to insurance bosses today as the climate group gears up for a week of protests across the country.

A growing grassroots movement against forest biomass is fighting to keep the West’s trees from being burned for energy during the transition away from fossil fuels.

Faced with the threat of mass redundancies, GKN automotive workers in Florence occupied their factory to save jobs and build green technology. Their actions can be an inspiration to British workers fighting similar fights.

Scientists warn: ‘The future of humanity hangs in the balance.’

The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.

Is it just our filter bubbles? Or is an understanding of the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) slowly making its way into the mainstream?

Microplastics are small plastic particles, usually measuring less than 5 millimeters, that come from the degradation of larger plastic products or are intentionally created for industrial purposes.

Most of the fires have been caused by deliberate burning of lands and improper disposal of highly polluting waste.

Burkina Faso will nationalize two gold mines at a cost of about US$80 million.

Colombia was found to be the deadliest country in the world, with 79 deaths in total last year—compared to 60 in 2022, and 33 in 2021.

It was only 3 years ago when a group of distinguished climate scientists led by Erin C. Pettit (Oregon State University) said Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf of the Thwaites Glacier/Antarctica, aka: Doomsday Glacier, could collapse “within as little as 5 years.”

The ‘degrowth’ debate raises critical issues to which only a Marxist approach can provide answers, argues the Marx Memorial Library.

The Argentine president’s reformist agenda seeks to eliminate environmental, social and human rights protection standards in order to attract foreign investment.Booming demand for lithium plays a key role in Milei’s new policy.

The post-Malabo process to determine the next decade of agricultural policy has so far been characterised by outside influence and exclusivity.

The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there.

Gavin Newsom’s ‘War on Rooftop Solar’ is a bad omen for the Country.

Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.

Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.