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The left should embrace de-growth, but it’s the rich that need to sacrifice…

On ecologist Garret Hardin, author or ”The Tragedy of the Commons,” and his lasting influence on the environmentalist far right.

Part Three of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.

Fires are not unusual in Siberian forests, but the concern about this year’s blazes is their scale and their proximity to population centers. Siberia also saw massive fires last year, the year before, and the year before that. The most recent fires were preceded by temperatures upward of 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the long-term average for the area. That fits within the pattern of what scientists expect as the global climate changes. As average temperatures rise, heat waves are becoming longer, more frequent, and more intense.

Neither liberal nor conservative, the true ideology of Silicon Valley is an unwavering belief in the power of technology.

POWER challenges participants to think about how infrastructure relates to life across a series of intersecting concerns, including democratic governance and climate justice.

Decades beyond its intended lifespan, and in the midst of a changing climate, the Mississippi River’s shipping infrastructure faces an uncertain future.

At the core of both his writing and activism is the insight that we can’t imagine a harmonious future without confronting the destruction in our past.

If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline.

Carbon cycles regulate the Earth's temperature and provide essential elements of life. Now capitalist industry and agriculture is disrupting those vital life support systems

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.

We shouldn’t ask whether we must get out of capitalism so that humans can survive. We must ask how and when.

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.

On September 27, activists will walk out of school and work, suspend commercial activity and boycott banks.

At first glance, the two strikes might not appear to have much in common. But the working class is the only social force that can reorganize the economy. Workers need to take the lead in the climate strike.

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

After two devastating hurricanes, some island residents are ushering in a new age of renewables.

Governor Jay Inslee exposed as a climate change hypocrite.

Climate change is severely straining the world’s oceans, creating profound risks for coastal cities and food supplies, a U.N. report finds.

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●●●

With natural gas dependency on the rise, thousands of miles of pipe connect New York City to a vast and dangerous geography of extraction.

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

Party members back Green New Deal motion including nationalisation of big six energy firms

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During Climate Week, why not show we can have economic and environmental justice?