Due the extreme drought, across creeks in Northern California lay rotting carcasses of the Chinook salmon, a fish that historically would rest for weeks in these waters after completing their upstream journey. …
Even in the face of an existential crisis for humanity, the Democrats are still unable to challenge the fossil fuel interests that dominate our global economy. …
Environmental activist Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to 8 years in prison as a “terrorist” for sabotaging the Dakota Access pipeline. …
The western United States is experiencing extreme droughts while the capitalist system exacerbates climate change. …
With disasters like Hurricane Ida, we can now see the outlines of our future if we allow the world to continue as it is – and it’s terrifying… …
Baltimore’s two wastewater treatment plants have been releasing large quantities of partially-treated sewage into rivers flowing into the Chesapeake Bay for about a year without detection. …
Biden’s “bipartisan” infrastructure plan is useless when considering the climate crisis. …
Capitalism has caused this mess, and to save our planet and ourselves, we need to envision and create a new and more sustainable system for meeting human needs. But change will only come about if WE, regular working class people, fight for it. …
As global heating continues, wildfires of unprecedented scope and devastation are blazing in many countries. …
Activists fought against a pipeline project in Tennessee and won: the Byhalia Connection Pipeline has been cancelled. …
Climate activists protested against Biden’s ineffective climate proposal. …
Demonstrating the absurdity of capitalism, Amazon destroys millions of unsold items every week. …
A record-setting heat wave hit the Western United States last week in California, Nevada, Utah, …
We are facing a crisis like never before. The current organization of production, especially the …
The ongoing megadrought in the western U.S. is a symptom of capitalism. We need to get rid of this system in order to solve these kinds of problems. …
The Biden administration continues to defend mining and oil projects, because it represents the capitalist system. …
We can’t rely on capitalists to stop building oil pipelines. Only a mass movement can. …
Reports released this week demonstrate the urgency of the climate crisis. …
If we can fly a helicopter on Mars, why can’t we clean up our own planet? …
As Taiwan experiences a severe drought, its government is rationing water for residents and farmers, but its large semiconductor manufacturing company is relatively unaffected. …
Andreas Malm’s recent book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency lays out the overlapping causes of both …
On Earth Day, remember that the environmental crisis facing our planet is ultimately caused by capitalism. …
Japan plans to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. …
Effects of climate change are already visible, yet no serious efforts to mitigate it are being made under the capitalist system. …
The Piney Point disaster was completely preventable, if the system didn’t prioritize profit over all else. …
The disaster in Texas is just another reminder of what’s in store for us if we continue to leave our future in the hands of those who run a system guided by the drive for profits, regardless of the impact. Our future depends on our determination to come together and fight against this system – to fight for a world that represents all of our interests. …
Capitalism is in a state of emergency, bringing all of humanity to the precipice. There is still a window of opportunity for the revolutionary power of the proletariat to intervene and carve out a path towards socialism. But that window is closing, and time is not on our side. …
The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …
Russia, China, and the U.S. are battling it out to see who can sink …
Global heating is raising sea levels around the world, although at different rates in different …
We don’t have until 2050 to respond to climate change. …
We can’t rely on the courts to protect us – they won’t …
Since 1944, the United States and Mexico have shared water across their border, with the …
Early this month the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, published his view of the state of the world and he doesn’t think it’s pretty. …
What if researchers worked together to fix our plastic waste problem? …
All the Democrats have done for climate change is pay it lip service. …
Wildfires have scorched more than five million acres, an area the size of Connecticut, as …
Since 1970, the planet’s wildlife populations have decreased by an average of 68 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2020 Living Planet Report. …
Reports of orcas ramming boats near the coasts of Spain and Portugal have been flooding in. …
As if the COVID pandemic wasn’t enough for Californians to deal with, the state is now seeing record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and smoke. …
2020 has indeed been the worst year. But further events like the ones that define this year will not end with it, unless the root cause – capitalism – is removed. …
A massive heat dome hovering over the southwest of the U.S. is causing record-breaking temperature spikes in California. …
On August 17, the Trump administration opened up the coastal plane of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling …
Climate change is quickly melting the sea ice that polar bears depend on as their hunting ground …
Joe Biden recently announced his policy proposals for addressing climate change. So what does this supposedly revolutionary plan entail? …
We’re only halfway through the year and 2020 is already expected to break global temperature records. …
It was recently announced that the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest oil pipeline out of North Dakota, will be shut down, as well as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. …
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of oil and gas companies on Monday when they approved fast-track permitting for pipeline construction …
The South Pole is warming at a rate three times faster than the rest of the globe. …
On June 20, the city of Verkhoyansk in Siberia hit a record high temperature over 100 degrees. …
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