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Environment: We need a plan B by Laura L. Klure, 30 January 2012
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Poisoning the Planet's Web of Life by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 12 May 2021
Canada's Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau's Support by Yves Engler, Jacobin, 7 May 2021
Commodity trading: the shadowy industry destroying the planet by Joseph Baines, Sandy Brian Hager, openDemocracy, 4 May 2021
New UN Report Highlights 'Absolutely Critical' Need to Dramatically Slash Global Methane Emissions by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, 6 May 2021
Nuclear Climate Change: Washington Heats Things Up by Brian Cloughley, Information Clearing House, 6 May 2021
Study Warns of 'Rapid and Unstoppable' Sea Level Rise If World Misses Paris Climate Targets by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, 5 May 2021
We have no answers; we have questions. Urgent ones by John Holloway, ROAR, 1 May 2021
Brazilian Amazon released more carbon than it absorbed over past 10 years by Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, 30 April 2021
Nobel Laureates Urge Humanity to Stop 'Taking Colossal Risks With Our Common Future by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, 29 April 2021
The Red Deal: Indigenous action to save our Earth by The Red Nation, ROAR, 25 April 2021
The maximum speed limit in towns will be reduced to 30 km/h in most streets from 11 May by Francisco Jiménez, Sur in English, 23 April 2021
How Earth Day Is Being Co-Opted by Corporate Interests by Simone Lovera, Common Dreams, 23 April 2021
Fossil fuels cause several million deaths each year by Sustainability Times, ZNet, 23 April 2021
Study Reveals Rapid Melting of Glaciers Has Shifted Earth's Axis by Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams, 23 April 2021
We're All Weird Naked Murder Monkeys, CaitlinJohnstone.com, 22 April 2021
Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed by Colin Todhunter, ZNet, 21 April 2021
Therapists Are Seeing More Patients Struggle With Climate Anxiety by Isobel Whitcomb, Truthout, 18 April 2021
Málaga: City's planned new low-emissions zone to take 20,000 cars off the street a day within the first five years by Jesús Hinojosa, Sur in English, 16 April 2021
97% of Earth's Land No Longer Ecologically Intact, Study Finds by Julia Conley, Common Dreansm 15 April 2021
Greenpeace Says Biden Tax Plan for Fossil Fuel Subsidies 'Simply Not Good Enough' by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 7 April 2021
'Wall Street Is a Primary Villain' in Climate Crisis, Analysis Shows by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 7 April 2021
Strategies for the new climate war by Simon Pirani, People and Nature, 6 April 2021
Study Sounds Latest Warning of Rainforest Turning Into Savanna as Climate Warms by Malavika Vyawahare, Common Dreams, 3 April 2021
Scientists Say Humanity Now at 'Dawn of What Must Be a Transformative Decade' by Jon Queally, Common Dreams, 22 March 2021
Youth Activists in Over 800 Cities Worldwide Gear Up for Friday's Climate Strike by Leanna First-Arai, Truthout, 18 March 2021
Jason Hickel introduces Degrowth – book review by Mark H. Burton, MR Online, 18 March 2021
Women and nature: Towards an ecosocialist feminism by Jess Spear, MR Online, 15 March 2021
Biden's Trade Policy With India Could Accelerate Global Climate Catastrophe by Samantha Agarwal, Truthout, 13 March 2021
'We're Destroying Our Life-Support Systems': Study Suggests the Amazon Now Contributes to Warming by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 12 March 2021
Ten Years After Fukushima: The Experts Examine Lessons Learned and Forgotten by Ali Ahmad, Aditi Verma, Francesca Giovannini, Common Dreams, 11 March 2021
Global Obsession With Economic Growth Will Increase Risk of Deadly Pandemics in Future by Tom Pegram, Julia Kreienkamp, The Conversation, 6 March 2021
Approaching a Risky 1.5°C Global Overshoot by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 5 March 2021
Bill Gates Can't Save the Planet by Grace Blakeley, Jacobin, 3 March 2021
'The Time Is Now': Survey Finds Overwhelming International Support for Greater Environmental Protection Ahead of UN Climate Conference by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, 1 March 2021
Global heating, droughts and storms fuel violence against women by Orthalia Kunene, People and Nature, 1 March 2021
Biden, Climate Change, and China by Michael Klare, TomDispatch, 25 Fedbruary 2021
Electric cars are no panacea. The government's focus on them is a sham by Simon Pirani, People and Nature, 23 February 2021
Devastation from winter storm that wreaked havoc in Texas felt across North America by William Quartemaine, World Socialist Web Site, 22 February 2021
'No Safe Amount': Environmentalists Sound Alarm Over Texas Refineries' Release of Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds of Pollutants During Storm by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, 21 February 2021
A century without war is needed to survive environmental threats by Geoff Tansey, Paul Rogers, openDemocracy, 21 February 2021
Cold truth: The Texas freeze is a catastrophe of the Free Market by James K. Galbraith, MR Online, 20 February 2021
'Words Are Not Enough': Biden Pushed to Take Bold Climate Action as US Returns to Paris Agreement by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 19 February 2021
Ecocide! by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 19 February 2021
UN Head Decries 'Senseless and Suicidal' Destruction of Nature as New Report Urges Systemic Solutions by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, 18 February 2021
Winter Storms Offer a Taste of the Climate Chaos Ahead If We Don't Cut Emissions by Leanna First-Arai, Truthout, 17 February 2021
Can We Exit This Road to Ruin? by Craig Collins, CounterPunch, 15 February 2021
Study Warns Emissions Cuts Must Be 80% More Ambitious to Meet Even the Dangerously Inadequate 2°C Target by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 11 February 2021
Bernie and AOC Are Right: Joe Biden Should Declare Climate Change a National Emergency by Luke Savage, Jacobin, 11 February 2021
Covid, climate, and ‘dual metabolic rupture' by Neil Faulkner, MR Online, 4 February 2021
Obsession With GDP, Disregard of Nature Leading Towards Ecosystem Collapse: Report by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams, 2 February 2021
The Climate Change Lawsuits Against Big Oil by Daniel Farber, Consortium News, 2 February 2021
Dangerous Distractions by Tetet Lauron, Katja Voigt, Nadja Charaby, Nessim Achouche, ZNet, 30 January 2021
Biden's climate orders by Tina Landis, ZNet, 30 January 2021
Climate crisis: world is at its hottest for at least 12,000 years – study by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, 27 January 2021
Stopping Climate Change Is Not Enough, We Must Also Address Climate Impacts With Effective Strategies by Joel Clement, Common Dreams, 27 January 2021
Biden Asks Congress to End $40 Billion in Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels by Jake Johnson, Consortium News, 27 January 2021
Biden's First Climate Actions Are a Result of Years of Indigenous Activism by Mike Ludwig, Truthout, 26 January 2021
Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity's Ability to Reproduce by Sharon Lerner, The Intercept, 24 January 2021
Complex Life Threatened by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 22 January 2021
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says by Tess Riley, ZNet, 22 January 2021
The US Is Back in the Paris Agreement, But More Is Needed to Stave Off Disaster by Leanna First-Arai, Truthout, 21 January 2021
Countries adapting too slowly to climate breakdown, UN warns by Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 14 January 2021
With Alarming New Assessment, 17 Scientists Offer 'Cold Shower' to Wake Up Humanity to Hot World by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 13 January 2021
No time to spare for the Paris climate promise by Mary Robinson, Social Europe, 12 January 2021
You Don't Want to Imagine an Ocean Without Coral Reefs, But You Might Have to by Vijay Prashad, CounterPunch, 1 January 2021
Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020 by Chloe Brimicombe, Elliott Sainsbury, Gabrielle Powell and Wilson Chan, The Conversation, 30 December 2020
Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Has Made It Worse by Leanna First-Arai, Truthout, 30 December 2020
Is Society Collapsing? by Kirkpatrick Sale, CounterPunch, 25 December 2020
Tomgram: Lachmann, Schwartz, and Young, Is a Green New Deal Planet Possible? TomDispatch.com, 10 December 2020
A warning on climate and the risk of societal collapse by Gesa Weyhenmeyer, Will Steffen and others, The Guardian, 6 December 2020
Scientists say net zero by 2050 is too late by Pip Hinman, MR Online, 16 November 2020
The Return of Nature by John Bellamy Foster, Review by Peter Critchley, MR Online, 16 November 2020
A Troubling Discovery in the Arcticc by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 6 November 2020
Europe's hidden biodiversity crisis by Laura Hildt and Patrick ten Brink, Social Europe, 21 October 2020
Exxon Spends Millions on Facebook To Keep the Fossil Fuel Industry Alive by Christine MacDonald, In These Times, 20 October 2020
Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 20 October2020
An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment Under Israeli Colonization by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan, Defend Democracy Press, 17 October 2020
New Documents Reveal How the Animal Agriculture Industry Surveils and Punishes Critics by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, 10 October 2020
Boundless Dying Trees by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 29 September 2020
Greenwashing Capitalism Won’t Heal the Planet by Collective 20, ZNet, 21 September 2020
California’s Apocalyptic ‘Second Nature’ by Mike Davis, ZNet, 15 September 2020
Trump Scoffs at Plea to Take Climate Change Seriously Amid Fires, Mocks Science Instead by Robert Mackey, The Intercept, 15 September 2020
US Fires as Metaphor by Finian Cunningham, Information Clearing House, 15 September 2020
“These Are Climate Fires”: Oregon Firefighter Ecologist Says Devastating Blazes Are a Wake-Up Call. Democracy Now! 14 September 2020 (video and transcript)
Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon Is Evacuated, California Burns, and Louisiana Sinks by Juan Cole, Common Dreams, 12 September 2020
'Nature Is Unraveling': New WWF Report Reveals 'Alarming' 68% Plummet in Wildlife Populations Worldwide Since 1970 by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 10 September 2020
“This Is Climate Change”: West Coast Fires Scorch Millions of Acres & Blot Out the Sun, Democracy Now! 10 September 2020 (video and transcript)
Brazil's 63,000 Fires by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 8 September 2020
‘Green' billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans' documentary by Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone, 7 September 2020
‘This is a problem across the whole of the nation’: 60% of population living with air pollution above legal limits by Harry Cockburn, Independent, 6 September 2020
Nothing has changed and the Amazon burns again by Manuela Andreoni, openDemocracy, 21 August 2020
Canadian ice shelf area bigger than Manhattan collapses due to rising temperatures by Reuters, The Guardian, 7 August 2020
The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation by Thomas Nicholas, Galen Hall and Colleen Schmidt, openDemocracy, 14 July 2020
'We Will Sue,' Vow Green Groups After Trump Guts Nation's Key Environmental Law by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, 15 July 2020
Humanity on Track to Soon Hit 1.5ºC Paris Accord Limit as Atmospheric CO2 Nears Level Not Seen in 15 Million Years by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 9 July 2020
Europe losing forest to harvesting at alarming rate, data suggests by Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 1 July 2020
ROAR Roundtable: COVID-19 and the climate crisis by ROAR Collective, 23 June 2020
The Final 100 Seconds by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 22 June 2020
Swords into ploughshares; planes into ventilator parts by Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper, 5 June 2020
10C Above Baseline by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 22 May 2020
Notes from the Editors, Monthly Review, 1 May 2020
Now is the Perfect Time to Fight Climate Change by Sonali Kolhatkar, CounterPunch, 24 April 2020
Thirteen theses on the imminent ecological catastrophe and the (revolutionary) means of averting it by Michael Löwy, Defend Democracy Press, 23 April 2020
Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases by Daniel Ross, Truthout, 19 April 2020
The Rift of Éire by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, 1 April 2020
Coronavirus Matters, the Stock Market Doesn't, and Thinking It Does May Literally Kill Us by Jon Schwarz, The Intercept, 6 March 2020
All the Devastating Epidemics That Coronavirus is Distracting Us From by Tamara Pearson, CounterPunch, 6 March 2020
The Climate Movement Has Gained Unprecedented Momentum Since 2018 by Sharon Zhang, Truthout, 6 March 2020
Why Do Cars Kill More People in Unequal Nations? by Sam Pizzigati, CounterPunch, 4 March 2020
Native Activists Are Forging a Just Transition to Renewable Energy by Winona LaDuke, Truthout, 1 March 2020
Pence Hates Science. Tasking Him With Coronavirus Response Could Cost Lives by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout, 28 February 2020
Trump touts biodefense strategy but slashes funding to detect and combat outbreaks like coronavirus by Matt Field, MR Online, 28 February 2020
Forever-Chemicals Tap Water by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 28 February 2020
Why COVID-19 is more insidious than other coronaviruses by Nicole Karlis, AlterNet, 28 February 2020
Globalization, Coronavirus and Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains by F. William Engdahl, Information Clearing House, 28 February 2020
First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds 'warm water coming from all directions' by Jeff Tollefson, Nature, 20 February 2020
Menace on the Menu in Post-EU Britain by Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, 14 February 2020
We Should Be Wary of Blaming Overpopulation for the Climate Crisis by Heather Alberro, Consortium News, 12 February 2020
'The Saddest Thing Is That This Won't Be Breaking News': Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 12 February 2020
These three post-Brexit bills bulldoze a hole through environmental protections by Fiona Harvey: The Guardian, 12 February 2020
A year of record climate disasters in Africa by Nnimmo Bassey, People and Nature, 10 February 2020
'Consitent With a Mass Extinction': New Study Warns Climate Chaos Driving Rapid Decline of Bumblebees by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 7 February 2020
Coronavirus Epidemic: WHO Declares a “Fake” Global Public Health Emergency by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 31 January 2020
China’s virus response has been ‘breathtaking’ by Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 30 January 2020
Calling for Spread of 'Facts, Not Fear,' WHO Declares Global Health Emergency as Coronavirus Cases Confirmed in 18 Countries by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, 30 January 2020
Critics: Trump EPA's Formal Assertion Glyphosate Poses No Risk to Human Health Indication of 'Troubling Allegiance' With Bayer/Monsanto by Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams, 30 January 2020
Inequality makes climate crisis much harder to tackle by Larry Elliott, The Guardian, 26 January 2020
Global Groundwater Is Threatened by Unsustainable Practices Amid Climate Crisis by Daniel Ross, Truthout, 26 January 2020
A Climate Time Bomb With Trump's Name Inscribed by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 24 January 2020
Australian bushfires to contribute to huge annual increase in global carbon dioxide by Adam Morton, The Guardian, 24 January 2020
'The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced': Doomsday Clock Now 100 Seconds to Midnight by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 23 January 2020
Wildfires show us how the climate emergency is already affecting Europe by
Big Pharma Is Literally Poisoning Us by Thom Hartmann, Truthdig, 20 January 2020
Despite Trump Vows, Coal Industry Falling as Wind Power Surges in US and Worldwide by Juan Cole, Common Dreams, 19 January 2020
The Pesticide Industry’s Playbook for Poisoning the Earth by Lee Fang, ZNet, 19 January 2020
Ozone Layer Recovery Is Being Undermined by Pollution From U.S. Companies by Sharon Lerner, The Intercept, 18 January 2020
How Nottingham is racing to be the UK’s first carbon neutral city by Colin Drury, Independent, 18 January 2020
Here's the Truth: Trump's Economy Is an Absolute Disaster for People and the Planet by Joseph Stiglitz, Common Dreams, 17 January 2020
Gone Fishing? No Fish but Plenty of Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis by Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, 17 January 2020
'Scale of This Failure Has No Precedent': Scientists Say Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 16 January 2020
Barcelona announces €563 million plan to reduce greenhouse gases by Clara Blanchar, El País in English, 16 January 2020
Madrid Central scheme sees city pollution fall to 10-year low by Miguel Ángel Medina, El País in English, 15 January 2020
'Unquestionably Alarming Signs': New Data Confirms Earth Just Had Hottest Decade on Record by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams, 15 January 2020
Like Adding 'Five to Six Hiroshima Bombs of Heat Each Second,' Study Shows Oceans Warming at Record Rate by Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams, 14 January 2020
Driving into a city should become as antisocial as smoking by Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian, 14 January 2020
The War on the War on Cancer by Sharon Lerner, The Intercept, 12 January 2020
Mega Droughts Engulf Countries by Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 10 January 2020
Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet by George Monbiot, The Guardian, 8 January 2020
'Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,' 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, 6 January 2020
We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires by
A Growing Movement Shows There Is an Alternative to Capitalism by Laura Flanders, Truthout, 2 January 2020
This can be the year when we recharge nature – and ourselves by George Monbiot, The Guardian, 2 January 2020
The Lost Decade by John Vidal, ZNet, 1 January 2020