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Today, multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs announced an updated energy policy that rules out financing for new oil drilling or exploration in the Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Campaigns at MIT, Harvard, Yale and University of California are demanding divestment from fossil fuels.

New research from Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson questions the climate and health benefits of carbon capture technology against simply switching to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Carbon capture technology is premised on two possible approaches to reducing climate

At UN conference, Greta condemns government and corporate refusal to take effective action to reduce emissions.

Historical capitalism cannot be understood aside from its existence as a colonial/imperialist world system in which the violent exercise of power is an ever-present reality. In order to uncover the…

In just over 6,500 words, Time Magazine makes the case for Greta Thunberg being 2019’s Person of the Year. For much of the left, this confirms that she is a corporate tool. Founded in 1923 by Henry Luce, Time was the flagship of the Luce empire. Print newsmagazines have gone into a steep decline with More

I am in Sydney, having just spent 6 days in Brisbane to the north. The area around, and to the south of, Sydney has been engulfed by extensive wildfires which have been burning since August. This includes 20% of the Blue Mountains world heritage area. According to The New York Times, in the middle of More

I am in Sydney, having just spent 6 days in Brisbane to the north. The area around, and to the south of, Sydney has been engulfed by extensive wildfires which have been burning since August. This includes 20% of the Blue Mountains world heritage area. According to The New York Times, in the middle of More

Uprisings around the world are a sign that societies are not meeting the needs of most of their people.

Current progress is not nearly enough to help limit global warming.

When it comes to environmental damage and the health of our natural resources, gender definitely plays a role: in who's affected, who can do what, and how we can move forward. The United Nations Environment Program puts it pretty succinctly, saying:…

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

Scandinavian countries may top every ranking on human development, but they are a disaster for the environment.

The dark side of clean energy.

If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels.

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

Major parts of the globe have already passed 2 degrees Celsius of warming, a Post investigation has found.

Few Green New Deal proposals include explicit attention to rural people and places. But a bold vision for rural America can challenge the ascendance of right-wing populism.

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Ecomodernists claim material growth can continue indefinitely without environmental damage. Degrowth advocate Jason Hickel says their arguments ignore both…

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...

By migrating in huge herds, bison behave like a force of nature, engineering and intensifying waves of spring greenery that other grazers rely on.

Experts are increasingly worried cap and trade is allowing California's biggest polluters to conduct business as usual.

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

There’s a new name for our burning planet.

The US is on a path to an unrecognizably hot future. Here’s what that looks like and how to change course. Last week, UCS released Killer Heat, a report analyzing how the frequency of days with a dangerously hot heat index--the combination of temperature and humidity the National Weather Service

As we glide along the path of our own destruction, this is how we normalise it – one tweet at a time.

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...