The Green New Deal will not work unless it dismantles neocolonial structures exploiting nature and people.

A declaration on climate crisis, energy transition and extractivism in Latin America.

With the rising awareness of the speed and scale of action needed to prevent climate breakdown, is a nervousness about our ability to meet the challenge. But one country’s experience at the end...

The crisis in Bolivia has an urgent message for environmental policy in the United States.

The Colombian energy company EPM has developed programs for people directly affected by the dam, but the wider effects of a drastically altered ecology and changed landscape have reverberated beyond the obvious immediate emergencies. To the activist Isabel Zuleta, the irrevocable loss of a place—including all the unresolved issues of the disappearances and the victims’ remains—is the worst, final act of violence against its people. “That is incredibly painful,” she told me. “Because we, the displaced, have fought for the right to return. Without the possibility of return, it can no longer b...

null

Climate disruption is shaping migration patterns -- of humans and birds alike.

When Indigenous people fight to defend and enforce land rights, they are protecting our collective future.

The Colorado River serves over 35 million Americans before reaching Mexico – but it is dammed at the border, leaving locals on the other side with a dry delta

In the last week, two widely-shared images have summed up deep-rooted problems at the heart of the Extinction Rebellion movement. One, a white man wearing a suit jacket being pulled off the top of …

President announces order in televised address after fare-dodging protest by students in capital widens

U.S. military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.

During the 1980s a series of shocking images and films appeared of massive devastation underway in the Amazonian state of Rondonia. There, an area of old g

The fires in the Amazon are within the historical average. That’s why we should worry.

In 2001, three frameworks for handling international crises emerged: the War on Terror, an ill-defined "responsibility to protect" struggling countries, and the Caribbean movement for reparations.

The Bolivian lowlands have been burning for over a month. Over 4 million hectares of biodiverse forests has already burned to ash–an area larger than Switzerland. Uncontrolled, the fires continue to spread across protected areas and Indigenous territories, provoking an incommensurable loss of life. The tragedy is increasingly referred to as an ecocide. The most […]

Climate change and man-made fires could set off a cycle of self-perpetuating deforestation, scientists warn.

Hundreds of young people from countries around the world have their own ideas about how to solve the climate crisis.

A 2,000km road and river odyssey in Brazil reveals consensus from all sides: Bolsonaro has ushered in a new age of wrecking

Elizabeth Peredo Beltrán (Bolivia) Translated by: Mark Cramer (Paris) These days I am immersed in rage, pain and despair. The Amazon is in flames, the Chiquitanía is gravely wounded and beneath the fires, many of our hopes●●●

No region has done less to contribute to the climate crisis than Africa—or stands to lose more.

null

In the mountains of Armenia, a previously bucolic spa town is home to a goldmine locals say threatens the country's biggest source of freshwater, and with it, an entire ecosystem.

“The Amazon is a territory of life, food, water, and cultures, not destruction, death, and exploitation” Over the past few days, peoples and governments from around the world have been witnessing the consequences of the recent and serious crimes committed against the Amazon rain forest. The thick clouds of smoke that covered the southeast of... Read more →

The climate crisis isn’t the only reason to kick fossil fuels – the prospect of a war to protect Saudi crude reminds us of that, says environmentalist and author Bill McKibben

China’s decision to stop recycling America’s waste has cratered the market, leaving plastic and other trash to pile up

As the world leader in renewable energy capacity and production, China has the potential to open up a path for global ecosocialist transition, if ...

The socialist island is a rare example of large scale reforestation, whereas the rest of the world moves in the opposite direction.

What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.