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We can repair the Earth's ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.

The support comes as the climate policy fight broadens from energy and transportation to agriculture.

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.

Official Post from Richard Seymour: Climate change is the number one issue at this year's Labour conference. More important than Brexit, motions for a Green New Deal (GND) outnumbered motions on every other subject. When the causes and effects of climate breakdown are escalating, this reflects a proper sense of priorities. The call fo

The Case For Nationalization and Conversion of the Oshawa GM Plant It is a tragic irony that General Motors (GM) chose its hundredth anniversary in Oshawa

Bernie Sanders’s embrace of the New Deal legacy is an opportunity to dispel some pernicious historical myths about the New Deal’s relationship with socialism and its attitude toward the struggle for racial equality.

It’s not as if all VSCO Girls are sleeper climate champions. But as climate organizing has come to involve more people, it sucks the trends of the day up.

For just over 10% of a single year's military spending, we could build enough green electricity for every household in the country.

An international declaration of the Trotskyist Fraction—Fourth International on the Global Climate Strike taking place from September 20 to 27.

“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 →

Dana Nuccitelli: On 5 November 1965 climate scientists summarized the risks associated with rising carbon pollution in a report for Lyndon Baines Johnson

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As Greta Thunberg says, “We cannot solve an emergency without treating it like an emergency.” We have to “act as if the house is on fire, because it is.” That does not mean we simply need a New Deal painted green, or a Marshall Plan with solar panels. We need changes of a different quality and character. A new vision of what humanity can be is emerging. It is coming from the streets, from the schools, from workplaces, and even from inside houses of government. When the future of life is at stake, there is nothing we cannot achieve.

With a swiftly changing climate comes rapidly rising sea levels, storm frequencies, and increased human inequalities. In the face of constant climate-induced instability, women are not only on the

This group of environmental justice leaders and national environmental organizations have come together to lay out a shared vision for national climate policy priorities that will benefit everyone, especially the most at-risk communities.

Christopher Ketcham’s “This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West” is a politically explosive and beautifully written chronicle of the ongoing struggle to preserve publicly owned land in the West. This is home to iconic endangered species such as the grizzly bear, the wolf, and the wild horse. Much of the More

People around the world are feeling terror grief, and despair. The threat of climate change is real. But it doesn’t mean humanity will slide inevitably into barbarism and extinction. “Disaster Communism” offers a way out. A response to Jonathan Franzen.

Tropical Depression Imelda was nowhere near as widespread as Hurricane Harvey. But in some areas, the flooding was worse.

It involves unbuilding our mistakes—and building an equitable, just, and sustainable future.

Nearly 1,000 employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to demand the company go to zero emissions by 2030.

A new study arrives at some disturbing numbers.. For years, scientists have struggled to figure out exactly how much methane is trapped under the ice at the north and south poles and what it would

A reduction of economic activity is necessary and just – and can lead to human flourishing.

We know who’s responsible for the climate crisis: rich people. Nowhere is this clearer than in aviation, with billionaires’ private jets ravaging the planet. We need to ban them now.

If celebrities, billionaires, and executives decided to give up private jets and yachts, we’d know they actually care about climate change.

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

Extinction Rebellion is overwhelmingly shaped by the concerns, priorities, and ideas of middle-class white people. If it doesn't tackle white supremacy, it doesn't serve us.

There is a new IMF paper out on climate change and what policy instruments are available to do something about it. I write this post from Brazil, where the fires in the Amazon rage on and the Bolsonar…

However a Green New Deal frames guidance on state and local policy, farmland protection must be central—foundational—to its goals and funding priorities.