BY EVE OTTENBERG Mesquite Dunes and Grapevine Mountains, Death Valley National Park. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. For those climate change denialists who argue humanity is too puny to affect the earth system, take a look at […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Markus Spiske. Republican lawmakers in the US Congress are unabashedly pro-global warming: “Bring it on! We’ve got air conditioners in our cars, offices, and homes… no sweat!” Not one Republican in […]
A boy covers himself with a cloth while walking along a street in Chennai, India on June 19, 2023. (Photo: R.Satish Babu/AFP via Getty Images) “The consequences of climate injustice are starkly visible,” said Amnesty […]
BY ALLIYAH LUSUEGRO Photo by Joanne Francis Just a few weeks ago, I couldn’t step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask. As the smoke from wildfires in Canada swept across the eastern U.S., tens of millions […]
While lecturing workers about ‘consumer choices’, western environmental lobbies give a free pass to the planet’s real polluters. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1548269752&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true As finance capital attempts to turn supposedly environmental carbon measurements into financial packages […]
BY PATRICK MAZZA Hansen’s Warning June 23 is a significant date in history, when climate scientist James Hansen went up on Capitol Hill to warn us human-caused climate disruption had arrived. That was 1988. Fossil fuel […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by NOAA. The evidence is starting to build that all bets are off on predictions that humanity has a decade, or more, of clear sailing before global warming turns vicious enough to […]
BY STAN COX Image: Priti Gulati Cox. In a May 30 essay for the New York Times titled “The New Climate Law Is Working. Clean Energy Investments Are Soaring,” one of the architects of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), […]
BY BILL HATCH Photo by Sonaal Bangera The Doomsday Clock, established in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, has moved closer to midnight than at any time in its history. The scientists see the world in […]
BY JOSHUA FRANK Photograph Source: United States Department of Energy – Public Domain On the edge of Washington state, just a few miles from the great Columbia River, boiling radioactive sludge is seeping out of a […]