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Our political and economic systems are twisted to undermine food security for some for the benefit of others.

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

Business as usual is what’s doing us in. We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in the midst of an enormous physical crisis. Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere…

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

Listening to the climate’s clock.

Typically, we measure emissions that occur within a geographic boundary. But consumption-based accounting tells a different story: that affluent communities depend heavily on polluting activity that o…

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The International Life Sciences Institute, with branches in 17 countries, is funded by giants of the food and drug industries.

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

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

The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them.

A review of Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’ published on 11 June 2019 by Verso Books.

On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch.

Extractivist governments are stoking destruction in the Amazon and beyond. International alliances and Indigenous technologies can help protect the biome and support its 30 million inhabitants.

A looming environmental crisis unfolds in Syria, with makeshift oil refineries, crop fires, damaged water infrastructure and poor waste management.

Free public transport is not a pipe dream. It exists in over 100 cities across the world - and has transformative impacts.

[Note: This is an archived version of TUED Bulletin 88. Please click here for the latest list of union statements and actions in response to calls for global climate solidarity actions.]August 19,

The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope

Major CBS News poll released as part of Covering Climate Now, a collaboration of more than 250 news outlets around the world to strengthen coverage of the climate story

Nearly half a century after the Clean Air Act instituted the world’s most stringent emissions controls, the problem of air pollution is far from being solved in the US or anywhere else. Pollution has proved much more persistent, and exposure to it much more damaging, than anyone expected. Today, 91 percent of people worldwide live in areas where air pollution levels exceed the World Health Organization’s recommended limits. The result is a global health emergency, as three new books reveal in sobering detail.

Categorised in: The Water Paradigm and a new way forward Published: 8 Jun 2019 Given the impasse in climate politics, maybe it is time to reframe the problem and start again. One way of doing this is …

In his polemic, Mike Haynes argues that if socialists of the Global North are to address the climate crisis, they must also adjust their expectations of what a world with prosperity for all will look like.

Official Post from Richard Seymour: This is an English-language version of an interview with Gabriel Delacoste of Brecha.When I saw the pictures of the Amazon burning, I thought you were the person to…