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. …
And it’s on course to get even worse, with weakening environmental protections …
In addition to the coronavirus pandemic, and the deadly racism of our society that is being highlighted in the streets, June has brought another danger: hurricane season. …
This year we will surpass 418 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere …
Climate disruption is just one of the ways human life is threatened due to the massive destruction to the environment …
A recent study found that when temperatures increase past 89.6°F, tropical forests end up releasing CO2 …
Last week floods breached two dams near Midland, Michigan, forcing 11,000 people to evacuate …
Super Cyclone Amphan devastated parts of Bangladesh and India last week. …
Environmental activists around the world are calling for a “Green Recovery” after the coronavirus pandemic ends, to address the even larger crisis looming over us: climate change. …
Amidst a global pandemic, with the climate crisis still looming in the background, the Trump administration has dismantled a number of environmental protections. …
Covid-19 and the Global Food Chain with Raj Patel …
Agribusinesses are destroying massive amounts of food while people across the United States are standing in lines at food banks …
A recent study finds that global warming will impact humanity even more intensely, and sooner than previously thought. According to the research, for every 1ºC increase in global temperature, one billion people will be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat. …
According to a new paper by the University of California, Berkeley, high carbon-emitting industries have much lower import taxes than cleaner industries. …
The federal government just gave the fossil fuel industry at least $50 million dollars of taxpayer money, which probably won’t have to be paid back. …
Global greenhouse gas emissions are expected to drop by nearly 8 percent this year, due to COVID-19 lock downs. This is the largest drop ever recorded …
There has been a wave of COVID-19 infections in the meatpacking industry throughout the country. …
On March 25, the EPA announced it is rolling back environmental protections in response to the coronavirus. …
The Smithfield pork-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a huge eight-story meat processing plant that employs 3,700 workers. …
3.7 million. That’s how many gallons of milk are being dumped each day by U.S. dairy farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. …
Montana Governor Steve Bullock is allowing construction to begin on the infamous Keystone XL oil pipeline in Montana. …
Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants that have closed because of the coronavirus. …
California’s roughly 400,000 agricultural workers are deemed essential, but often without proper safety measures or guaranteed benefits …
Rain in the 2019-2020 season has been well below average in California, and the outlook for the rest of 2020 is for it to be drier than average, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. …
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and richest person on the planet, recently announced in an Instagram post that he is planning on donating $10 billion to combat climate change. “Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. …
For many years, Newark NJ has had a big problem with lead in its drinking water. Lead is hazardous and most dangerous to children. It can cause brain damage and many other serious problems.
One positive takeaway from the world’s response to the coronavirus epidemic is that it’s entirely possible to successfully combat two other existential and intertwined global crises: climate change and air pollution. …
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