New Future

The Trump administration has made much of Harvard’s supposed failure to address antisemitism in the wake of campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, but the attacks on the university have less to do with “civil liberties” than consolidating power and punishing critics.

This is the first of a three-part series on underreported issues involving Canadian mining companies and Indigenous peoples or local communities. Read part one here. Shrouded in the lush vegetation of the páramo, the Andean tundra landscape, the quiet wetlands and moorlands of Quimsacocha in southern Ecuador are at the center of a dispute.

On Wednesday, Alejandro Vilca, a socialist deputy with the PTS, was tear-gassed during a weekly pensioners protest in Argentina. He offers a powerful example of socialists’ role in electoral politics.

Despite mounting evidence of gender-based crimes, Israeli and international women’s groups have largely ignored or denied the UN’s damning new report.

Every year, during the Northern Hemisphere spring and autumn, the skies over Lebanon are dotted with millions of birds on their epic migrations.

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has raised serious concerns over the European Union Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, saying it imposes a heavy administrative burden on smallholders while lacking clarity and consistency in its enforcement.

The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

Over the past few decades, the harvesting of the Cortez oyster in western Mexico’s Marismas Nacionales — or the Marshes Biosphere Reserve — in Nayarit state has shifted from suffering from a fishing crisis to seeing a successful effort in its reintroduction and breeding in the ecosystem.

Years into Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict, the rebellion faces internal fractures, waning support, and military pressure—raising the question of what future, if any, lies ahead for Ambazonian aspirations.

Dionicio Colque, 42, has fond memories of growing up on the edge of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It’s the world’s largest salt flat, spanning about 10,500 square kilometers (4,050 square miles). His family farmed potatoes on the outskirts of Colcha K, a community of around 1,000 residents in Nor Lípez province.

In “Henry James Comes Home, ” Peter Brooks investigates James’s complex accord with his homeland and its people.

Amphibians in Brazil’s Pantanal, one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse wetlands, could lose huge swaths of their habitat as the region dries out from climate change, a new study has found. Researchers studied the Upper Paraguay River Basin (UPRB), which stretches into parts of Paraguay and Bolivia and fully contains the Pantanal.

On Sunday the 13th April Kellie Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) held an anti-trans rally in Bristol, but met with strong resistance. on the 16th, the Sureme Court made a horrific ruling which will have dire consequences. Here we have a report back from Bristol and a short editorial on the ruling.

If you thought only humans had unique musical tastes that differed drastically across geographies and generations, think again. Researchers have long suspected that migration and population dynamics shape the musical repertoire of songbirds. Now, they have empirical evidence to back up this hypothesis.

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In two separate but related incidents, Kenyan authorities have arrested four suspects for illegally possessing and attempting to smuggle some 5,300 ants valued at about 1.2 million Kenyan shillings ($9,250), destined for the exotic pet trade. The ants, which included the giant harvester ants (Messor cephalotes), were being trafficked to Asia and Europe.

Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, responding to Samuel Farber’s “In Defense of Progress” from the new issue of Jacobin, defends philosopher Walter Benjamin and argues that “progress, ” as defined under capitalism, has come to threaten humanity’s very survival.

After 58 days on strike, Alamo United workers in New York City forced Sony to reverse its layoffs, reinstating all fired staff. Their victory shows what’s possible when workers unite as one fist.

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a quiet corner of northern New York state, the white pines of the Adirondack Forest Preserve rise like sentinels, untouched for more than 125 years. Their silence speaks volumes.

Elon Musk’s cuts may have “saved” the public less than half a percent of the national debt, but they are already making Americans poorer and sicker and forcing them to spend hours waiting on phone help lines.