By William I. Robinson This article was originally published by Truthout AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, ushering in new class and power relations. The relentless drive by Big…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The release of massive strategic petroleum reserves in the US, China and Europe, along with austerity measures around the world, have kept the Hormuz crisis from…
By Michael Arria This article was originally published by Truthout The five-year plan is expected to cause 4,000 additional oil spills and the destruction of fragile ecosystems. The Trump administration…
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum Juan Cole After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein…
Abrahm Lustgarten for Propublica For many months, conservative lawmakers and political operatives have been targeting the scientists and lawyers behind the Climate Judiciary Project, a program meant to educate the…
H. Patricia Hynes for Informed Comment Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet – from…
For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals. Sharon Lerner Propublica The calculations done by scientists at…
Kevin Heath had hoped there would be solar panels by now on his family farm in southeastern Michigan, roughly 50 miles outside Detroit. About six years ago, he agreed to…
By Dr. Joakim Kulin and Dr. Ekaterina Rhodes , DeSmog. Belief in climate change is rising, but action stalls. New research reveals how subtle narratives are slowing policy – and…
For more than a century, industry blanketed parts of Omaha with toxic lead—an invisible residue that still lingers in soil, homes, and bodies. Now, as new reporting from ProPublica makes…
Maximillian Alvarez for TRNN Three years ago, on Feb. 3, 2023, the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history—took place in the…
By Katie Surma for Inside Climate News In one of his final acts before his death in 2024, Māori King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero helped galvanize Pacific Indigenous leaders to…
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Although President Trump calls solar and wind power a “scam,” falsely alleges that they drive up electricity costs (the opposite is true), and has…
The policy change says the “quiet part out loud,” one environmental advocate said.
When a new orangutan species was found near a Chinese-owned hydrodam in Indonesia, scientists and advocates launched a campaign to block the project. Then some who spoke against it lost…
