New Future

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.

The recent advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on states’ obligations regarding climate change was celebrated globally for providing clarity on countries’ legal obligation to prevent climate harm, but was also appreciated by island nations for its additional certainty on their maritime boundaries remaining intact regardless of sea level rise.

“Never, ever say anything negative about an elephant or a gorilla. Elephants may attack people’s property, destroy their crops, and even kill them. Always take the side of the elephant. Big cats have public-school accents. Hyenas are fair game and have vaguely Middle Eastern accents.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — African leaders met Monday in the Ethiopian capital for the second Africa Climate Summit, where they proposed a new way of thinking about climate adaptation funding and called for the continent to be viewed not as a victim, but as an investment opportunity.

In the rainforest, much of life dwells in the tree canopy. But getting up there to study it isn’t easy. By the time a human has clumsily lumbered up from the ground, most of the critters have scattered.

In May, Indonesia’s state-owned electricity monopoly, PLN, vowed to increase its complement of natural gas power plants as part of a gambit, it said, to make its power supply cleaner and more reliable.

Arrests outside Parliament risk centring liberal freedoms instead of Palestinian survival ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Its 9pm, last Saturday . I’m standing on the pavement in the dark, watching the arrests. Police vans queue down the side of Parliament Square, engines idling. Police in high-vis jackets wade through the crowd of chanting singing

When the going gets tough, the tough get going — but for people in the Itasin-Imobi community, the going has been tough for far too long. Situated in the midst of Ogun state, Nigeria, this quiet fishing and agrarian community has been facing challenges that have tested its resilience to the limit.

The ouster of French prime minister Bayrou is a first victory for all those who want to mobilize against the government's plans. While President Macron will try to regain control, workers must continue to organize from the below to overthrow him and enforce their demands.

ADDIS ABABA — African leaders attending the Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa this week have called for a new global partnership that treats the continent as an engine of climate solutions rather than a recipient of aid. Summit host and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed set the tone at the opening on Sept.

Where were the public price listings? How could I be charged the same for two and a half hours as if I’d parked all day?

Elon Musk is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire. Still, liberals are hand-wringing about the potential pitfalls of wealth redistribution. In truth, we should have stopped the rise of the economic superelite long ago. Better late than never.

Spectre Editorial Board member Izzy Plowright interviews Rohan Shah about the roots of our contemporary moment in economic restructuring of 1970s and ’80s.

FORT BRAGG, U. S. — In 2024, I was scuba diving in Northern California’s Casper Cove where the Watermen’s Alliance, a group of ex-abalone sports divers, has been culling purple urchins since 2020. It had been six years since abalone season shut down, following the region’s kelp forest collapse.

As ICE launches “Operation Midway Blitz” and Trump doubles down on his threats to send in the National Guard, the city’s best hope is the working class, not Mayor Johnson.

The past few days has seen a series of protests in Nepal. Around the world this has been reduced to a reactionary response by youth to a "social media ban".

José Martí spent much of his short life outside Cuba, preparing a struggle to liberate his country from Spanish colonialism. The ideas and example of Martí would inspire a second struggle against US neocolonial domination after his death.

Tropical vulnerability The last six millennia have seen much higher ‘carrying capacities', soil fertility, population densities, and urbanisation in the tropics than in the temperate zone.