As the world moves towards electric cars and renewable grids, demand for lithium is wreaking havoc in northern Chile, says academic Thea Riofrancos

With dozens of countries struggling to manage both staggering debt and mounting climate disasters, some financial leaders are calling for green debt relief.

As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across Deaths of four frontline KwaZulu-Natal activists – and latest Durban oil refinery explosion – define 2021 battlegrounds On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for More

In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally…

The David and Goliath story of the Salvadorans who rallied together to prevent global corporation Pacific Rim from gold mining above the country’s main river and contaminating their water source

Importing millions of tonnes of crops and meat each year undercuts farming standards in the European Union and destroys tropical forests.

The pandemic is a tragedy for many people, whose pain we share. But the pause imposed on global capitalism due to COVID-19 also represents a major opportunity to bring about change: to build our future based on caring for life.

Actually existing capitalism has always relied on the globally uneven cheapening of labor and nature.

Since the late twentieth century, capitalist globalization has increasingly adopted the form of interlinked commodity chains controlled by multinational corporations…

For growth at any cost to become the only realistic basis for collective well-being, other forms of knowledge had to be suppressed or purged—recast as superstitious or irrational.

A panel the political economy of energy and green investment in Latin America, featuring Camila Gramkow (ECLAC-Brazil), Tom Perreault (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affaifrs, Syracuse Univ.) and Ruth Santiago (Attorney, Comite Dialogo Ambiental), moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen (University of Pennsylvania) And The Riofrancos (Providence College). Sponsored by Latin American and Latinx Studies, Sociology, and (SC)2 at the University of Pennsylvania. October 8, 2020. Event details: https://lals.sas.upenn.edu/events/green-new-deal-americas-camila-gramkow-eclac-brazil-tom-perreault-...

The world’s poorest will bear the worst consequences of the climate crisis. Redirecting international resources to address entrenched inequalities provides a way out.

In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF again tackled the issue of climate change, global warming and what to do about it. As it did last year, the IMF recognised that climate change …

World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth April 22nd, Cochabamba, Bolivia PEOPLE’S AGREEMENT Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is …

Welcome to the second installation of the Trillbilly Workers Party's Year Zero series, where we try to unravel some of the biggest political-economic questions of our day, and learn some things along the way. For this one we're joined by Timothy Mitchell, author of the Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011, Verso Books)who talks to us about how oil became central to the restructuring of the global economy after WW2, and then became central to the unraveling of that economy during the late 1960s and early 70s. We also look at what the future of energy politics might look ...

NATO will hold war games in Norway's Arctic Circle in March, where it will be supporting climate change-induced resource extraction and increasing the military tension with Russia.

Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.

Joint Cuba-U.S. study finds sustainable agriculture in Cuba keeps river pollution far below levels in U.S. waterways

The left’s increasingly ambitious environmental agenda is rethinking the mechanics of the international economy.

We can't let Trump's belligerence undermine the climate fight of our lives.

A look at 15 years of attempts to clean up Mexico’s most polluted waterway revealed that the country has neither the means nor the laws to preserve its environment.

The world situation is much worse than generally acknowledged. This December, the coinciding meetings of NATO and of the climate change Conference of the

Opinion | Foreign mining and energy companies that invest in the region have a responsibility to help protect local activists.

Law kept mining projects out of Argentina province – now water for wine-growers will be threatened in drought-stricken area

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…

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

The dark side of clean energy.