JUNE 5. 2025
The latest substitute for real resistance shows that the Democratic Party still refuses to learn.
Sending scuba divers down to survey corals is time-consuming and expensive. In recent years, scientists have developed other methods to determine what kinds of corals are down there just by collecting water samples, sometimes right from the surface. These rely on analysis of the DNA that the corals secrete into the water.
May’s federal election delivered a setback for the Greens, Australia’s largest left-wing party. But they’re doubling down on a program centered around the cost-of-living crisis and redistribution.
Before 1988, Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government officials, developers or explorers accidentally stumbled upon a camp, the protocol was to make contact — a move that can upend societies and spread deadly diseases.
Fires raged across the Amazon rainforest, annihilating more than 4.6 million hectares of primary tropical forest—the most biodiverse and carbon-dense type of forest on Earth.
Today advocacy groups and consultants influence political parties more than voters and members. In The Great Retreat, political scientist Didi Kuo shows that this has hollowed out democracy and facilitated the rise of the Right.
It may be ‘technically possible, ’ to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen. .
Exclusive: In a recent letter, senior civil servants reminded concerned staff of their options, including consulting staff counsellors, complaining to HR and simply going away. Rivkah Brown reports.
At a May 24 rally in Paris against imperialism, the Far Right, and the genocide in Gaza, trans activist and revolutionary socialist Sasha Yaropolskaya spoke on the urgent need to fight militarism and chauvinism with a united, international working class. Organized, the workers and oppressed of the world can not only resist capitalists’ attacks — they can go on the offensive.
The rise of doomers, preppers, and antinatalists on the Left reveals something deeper than the hollow posture of rebellion: a collapse of belief in tomorrow. A Left that chants “No future” isn’t just demoralized — it’s unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.
At least 200 people have been confirmed dead and 500 more remain missing after flash floods devastated a Nigerian market town, media reported.
Elon Musk is reconnecting with his country of birth.
In December 2024, a camera trap installed in Dehing Patkai National Park in northeast India’s Assam state captured a rare scene: a clouded leopard with a Bengal slow loris in its mouth.
Africa's biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.
The UK’s solar farms and rooftops generated more electricity than ever before in the first five months of 2025, as the country enjoyed its sunniest spring on record.
Over the last several decades, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed pharma companies to sell hundreds of drugs to patients without adequate evidence that they work and, in many cases, with clear signs that they pose a risk of serious harm.
In Monroe County, a decision against expanding Bloomington would be a costly disappointment for growth advocates. However, it would align the city with the aspirations laid out in its comprehensive plan, toward a steady-state future.
Plastic is everywhere, and its presence in our lives has grown in the last few decades, as the oil and gas industry ramped up its production to unprecedented levels. The resulting plastic pollution crisis has now entered a new phase in the form of microplastics.
KLAMATH, California — The Pacific Ocean fog hung densely over the narrow mouth of the Klamath River in this coastal rainforest in northern California. Redwood, Douglas fir and alder disappeared into the mist. Seals bobbed nearby, hungry and waiting. An osprey swooped overhead, breakfast clenched in its claws. It was late July, 2024.
The methods we use, and the words that come with them, seem to be widening the distance between us. What we call the climate is really the earth, and measurement doesn’t always equal understanding.