New Future

JAKARTA — The mysterious death of Vian Ruma, a 30-year-old activist opposing a geothermal project on Flores Island, has intensified calls for stronger protection of environmental defenders in Indonesia, where attacks against them have more than doubled this year. Vian was found dead in Nagekeo district on Sept.

The era of US-led capitalist globalization seems to be coming to an end. For Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello, it’s time to build a new, more equal distribution of power and resources around the globe.

A national human ecology curriculum that begins with food education could help address our most pressing crises—from climate change to inequality—by teaching students how to live well and care for one another.

How can we become good ancestors? Permaculturist and educator, Kara Huntermoon, says the hobbies we pick up now can be skills we pass on to our children, even if we never have to use them ourselves.

A number of deep and fundamental compatibilities connect science to animism, possibly illuminating a route from where we now find ourselves to a better-integrated existence on Earth—without having to abandon what we learned to our great collective misfortune.

SOUTH WASILE, Indonesia — Rudy said South Wasile district police officers visited his home with PT Arumba Jaya Perkasa staff three times in June to recommend he take the company’s 20,000 rupiah offer, around $1.22, per square meter of his coconut grove.

Immigration raids and detention aren’t just political theater — they supply corporations with cheap, captive labor and help roll back protections for all workers. Behind the language of border security lies coerced labor that echoes the convict lease era.

Maximize profits, exploit nature, hoard money, and, like Buzz Lightyear, grow the economy to infinity and beyond! That’s the modern economic playbook. But for decades, one renegade country has taken a contrarian stance that actually cares about people’s wellbeing and environmental health: the Himalayan nation of Bhutan.

Union approval is at historic highs, yet density keeps falling. The problem isn’t messaging but the lack of strategy that can turn popularity into power.

GenZ protests against social media ban and elite corruption become mass uprising against state violence ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Soldiers are patrolling the streets of Kathmandu after protests against corruption and a sweeping social media ban escalated to open rebellion following the killing of 19 protesters. Parliament was stormed and torched on Tuesday

At the 13th Berlin Biennale, works from Zambia and beyond summon unseen forces to ask whether solidarity can withstand the gaze of surveillance.

China and the US are currently locked in a dangerous rivalry, but things don’t have to be this way. We spoke to Dan Wang, the author of a new book which argues the two nations should learn from one another.

Since the completion of an all-weather road eight years ago, Nepal’s remote Mustang region has become a mass tourism destination, reports Mongabay’s Abhaya Raj Joshi. The surge in tourists, combined with the impacts of climate change, could put the fragile Himalayan region at greater risk of future disasters.

Not just Israel’s leaders are responsible for the genocide but also all those who support them. The Gaza Tribunal held in London last week heard evidence of direct British government involvement in Israel’s crimes.

Following a single vessel’s progress from US prison ship to migrant workers’ barge, a new book highlights global capitalism’s reliance on brutally exploiting workers, degrading national democracy, and operating as a law unto itself.

A flaming projectile caused minor damage to Greta Thunberg and Kieran Andrieu’s boat on Monday night, and another hit a second boat on Tuesday. But organisers and participants say they remain 'resolute and undeterred' as they prepare to depart. Charlotte England reports from Tunis.

Big Microplastic Survey gathers data from 39 countries, uncovering widespread nurdle and bio-bead contamination.

BANGKOK — Forest clearance has begun to make way for a new irrigation dam deep in the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, in Cambodia’s western province of Pursat, Mongabay has learned.

We are not asking for reforms at the margins. We are demanding transformation at the roots. On this 10th of September 2025, at the historic 3rd Nyeleni Global Forum being held in Kandy Srilanka, we reaffirm this collective commitment of global social movements and civil society organizations to build an alternative that is rooted in our lived realities.

Atlanta, GA — A Fulton County judge found Tuesday that Georgia’s attorney general lacked authority to bring racketeering charges against protesters named in the sprawling Cop City RICO case, calling into question the foundation and future of the massive legal effort to criminalize a movement.