CLIMATE & CAPITALISM

OCTOBER 28. 2024

The deadly environmental toll of superyachts and private jets

Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than poor people produce in a lifetime…

OCTOBER 22. 2024

COP or CON? Big Conservation corrupts biodiversity protection

Colonial, abusive and ineffective, but hugely profitable for certain actors…

OCTOBER 20. 2024

Basic physics explains why storms are getting stronger

Climate is not just changing, it HAS changed. Historical assumptions no longer hold.

OCTOBER 19. 2024

Ubiquitous plastic: A fast-growing health threat

Every year, millions of tons enter our brains, blood, lungs…

OCTOBER 16. 2024

How climate change destroyed a tar sands boomtown

Fire Weather: A remarkable account of the reality of disaster in modern neoliberal society…

OCTOBER 14. 2024

Overshoot-and-return: A dangerous climate change illusion

Once the 1.5°C limit is passed, there will be no going back…

Global water supply faces unprecedented stress

The hydrological cycle has accelerated, becoming more erratic and unpredictable…

OCTOBER 10. 2024

485 million years of heat, carbon dioxide, and human survival

Humans and our hominid ancestors have only lived in the most recent cool period…

OCTOBER 9. 2024

Climate crisis enters ‘critical and unpredictable new phase’

Scientists warn: ‘The future of humanity hangs in the balance.’…

SEPTEMBER 17. 2024

The environmental cost of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Western support of war means support for unprecedented environmental destruction…

SEPTEMBER 15. 2024

Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of control

Four years on, nothing has been learned from COVID-19…

SEPTEMBER 10. 2024

Methane emissions rising faster than ever

Atmospheric concentrations of methane are now the highest they’ve been for at least 800,000…

SEPTEMBER 1. 2024

Deaths at sea: Mass media mourns the rich, ignores the poor

The sinking of a super-yacht gets mass coverage, while thousands of refugees drown in darkness…

AUGUST 26. 2024

Maasai people protest forced evictions and loss of rights

‘Like Apartheid.’ Tanzanian pastoralists expelled from traditional lands…