Dam, Dam, Dam!
Is There a Place for Hydropower in a Warming World?
How the US Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-pipeline Movement
Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.
After Another Year of Record-Breaking Heat, a Heightened Focus on Public Health
With heat deaths surging in Texas, Arizona and across the nation, researchers model a myriad of heat effects on the human body and focus on the disproportionate impacts suffered by…
As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments Avert Their Eyes
The onrush of other crises is no excuse for ignoring climate change.
Human Rights Watch Blames Louisiana Regulators for Low Birth Weights in Cancer Alley
In the most polluted areas, a quarter of babies are born underweight. The watchdog group wants the EPA to intervene.
Why More Than 60 Indigenous Nations Oppose the Line 5 Oil Pipeline
The 70 year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill into the Great Lakes.”
How Big Oil Is Taking Us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride
With the World the Hottest in 125,000 Years, We're Being Gaslighted.
False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and…
Paying People to Replant Tropical Forests − and Letting Them Harvest the Timber − Can Pay Off for Climate, Justice and Environment
By Jefferson S Hall, Katherine Sinacore, and Michiel van Bruegel / The Conversation Tropical forest landscapes are home to millions of Indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers. Just about every square…
Super-Rich 1% Match Carbon Emissions of the Poorest 5 Billion People, Oxfam Report Reveals
New report exposes how the ultra-rich 1% maintains massive carbon emission discrepancies with the poorest 66% of the globe.
Emissions of Richest 1% Will Cause 1.3 Million Heat Deaths: Oxfam
"The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction and it is those who can least afford it who are paying the highest price."
The Last 12 Months Were Hottest the World Has Experienced in Last 125,000 Years
Global average temperatures over the past year were 1.32 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels.
The Illusion of Green Capitalism
Green Capitalism Will Not Solve Climate Change or Any of the Other Problems Driving Us Toward Extinction.
Human Existence Is in Danger. The UN at the Crossroads
By Partido Humanista de Chile / Pressenza In 2015 the UN (United Nations), whose main functions are to maintain international peace and security, protect human rights and support sustainable development…