BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Hiroko Yoshii. The Southern Ocean is 10% of the world’s oceans. Yet, it is arguably the most significant ecosystem of the planet for marine sea life as well as regulation of CO2 […]
An Interview with Joshua Frank BY KARL GROSSMAN Purchase Atomic Days from CounterPunch. Joshua Frank has written a powerful, extraordinary, must-read book, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America. In it, he exposes how […]
WHO SPONSORS OUR NEWS COVERAGE? A water fountain is seen near a playground at the grounds of the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on February 6, 2019. (Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto […]
BY PATRICK MAZZA Photo by Adam Wilson Upon our mastery of fire has humanity risen to global dominance. It is the most powerful tool employed by our toolmaking species, and the energy with which we make our […]
The Total Culzean platform is pictured in the North Sea, about 45 miles east of the Aberdeen, Scotland on April 8, 2019. (Photo: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images). “By encouraging greedy fossil fuel companies to […]
A parody ad for oil company Chevron features a voiceover that admits the company is “actively murdered” people across the globe over images typical of the fossil fuel industry’s “greenwashing” advertisements. (Photo: YouTube/Hyperobject Industries). Produced […]
BY ERIN MCCARLEY Image by Markus Spiske. One-third of Pakistan is underwater. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires […]
US Grain Lobby against Poorest Countries. Cereal Exported from Ukraine didn’t Reach People who Need it. UN Commissioner Said On the cover image the Jordanian UN commissioner Nada Al- Nashif Introduction by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio The […]
BY JEAN WYLLYS – JULIE WARK Photo by Nathalia Segato Less than a month before the general election on 2 October, it seems that things aren’t going well for incumbent president Jair Messías Bolsonaro. To begin with, […]
A Malawian woman tends to her maize field on February 14, 2018. (Photo: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images). AGRF, its donors, and African governments should be taking bold action to support resilient agriculture that works […]