Artificial upwelling is a geoengineering climate solution with a long history. The concept: mimic natural ocean upwelling by pumping cold, nutrient-rich seawater up from ocean depths via pipes to the surface. There it can cause a growth surge in CO2-absorbing plankton, nourishing aquaculture and tackling climate change.
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An essay by Patrick O’Donoghue on the situation in St. Cloud, Minnesota following a knife attack by an African immigrant, the backlash against the Somali community that followed, and the resistance to that backlash. The piece explores how the anti-refugee far right is using Islamophobia as a cover for their attack on the working class, compares and contrasts this anti-immigrant sentiment with the historical anti-German sentiment that helped form St Cloud's history of tension and resistance, and analyzes the city's economic conditions. It puts forward a call for community working class unity to push for housing, wages, and jobs, and against attempts by the far right to push cultural warfare. Originally posted: October 16, 2016 at Twin Cities General Defense Committee
At a May 24 meeting in Paris against imperialism, the Far Right, and the genocide in Gaza, railway worker Anasse Kazib spoke about the importance of internationalism. Only a united working class — including students, workers, and the oppressed — can fight for a world without war, borders, and exploitation.
BERLIN — Islamist fighters affiliated with ISIS have left a Mozambican wildlife reserve following a series of deadly attacks that claimed the lives of at least 10 people, including two wildlife rangers, according to the head of the country’s National Administration of Conservation Areas.
An article by Chris Wright about the failed Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, a Communist Party USA written and labor union backed bill introduced in the US Congress multiple times during the Great Depression. Originally posted: September 23, 2020 at Hampton Institute
Mining was banned in northeastern Minnesota due to the irreversible damage it would do to the state’s fresh water. A last-minute provision to the Republican budget bill will allow a Chilean magnate with ties to the Trump family to mine the protected lands.
Hudson’s Bay Company, Canada’s oldest retailer, didn’t die of natural causes — it was gutted by private equity. Stripped of assets and loaded with debt, it leaves behind job losses, endangered pensions, and a hollowed-out legacy reduced to branding rights.
The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará state to enable boats to pass during the dry season, as part of wider efforts to build a massive waterway for commodities.