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          Nutrient Drought

          The ocean is becoming more stable – and that’s not good news

          April 10, 2021

          A growing rift in the ocean's metabolism disrupts circulation and starves essential organisms

          Greenhouse Gas

          Carbon dioxide levels now at highest level in 3.6 million years

          April 8, 2021

          Despite pandemic shutdowns, atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane levels surged in 2020

          The First Cod War

          Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3

          April 5, 2021

          How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire

          Rising Waters

          Tipping points confirmed for massive Antarctic glacier

          April 2, 2021

          A small rise in ocean temperature may trigger catastrophic collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

          Six More Books

          Ecosocialist Bookshelf
          March 2021, Part Two

          March 25, 2021

          Marx on stealing wood, Human development in the Anthropocene, Solar energy, Nature dialogs, and two on food

          Overfishing

          Protect fish to produce more food and reduce greenhouse gas

          March 25, 2021

          New research confirms that reducing fishing is the best way to get more benefits from the oceans.

          Book Review

          Can ‘ethical investing’ save the world?

          March 15, 2021

          Superbanker Mark Carney quotes Oscar Wilde on value and price, but ignores his socialist conclusions

          Reading matters

          Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2021

          March 13, 2021

          Six new books that are worth reading ... and one that isn't

          Green Investments?

          The financialization of environment protection

          March 11, 2021

          Pollution markets and green finance are forms of profit accumulation, not practical tools for sustainable development.

          Exploiting the New Land

          Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2

          March 8, 2021

          While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.

          Book Review

          GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power

          March 4, 2021

          Why does GMO soy dominate Argentine agriculture? 'Seeds of Power' exposes the forces that have overwhelmed voices of resistance.

          Book Review

          The Ministry for the Future: A passionate call to save the earth

          March 1, 2021

          Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel delivers a powerful vision of Earth in crisis and Earth transformed, but fails as a program for change

          UN REPORT

          Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency

          February 18, 2021

          Urgent appeal to end the 'senseless and suicidal' war on nature by transforming social and economic systems

          Deadly heat

          Global Ice Melt: Much Faster Than Predicted

          February 18, 2021

          Glaciers are disappearing up to twice as fast as previous studies estimated, with disastrous effects on many communities

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          Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change

          February 11, 2021

          The transition to green energy does not have to be powered by destructive and poisonous mineral extraction.

          Reading matters

          Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2021

          February 9, 2021

          Pandemic Century; Outlaw Ocean; America’s Dirty Secret; Deep Carbon; Clean Energy; Another End of the World

          Commodity cod & factory ships

          Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1

          February 3, 2021

          Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.

          Book Review

          Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship?

          February 2, 2021

          Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence.

          A practical legal maxim

          ‘The health of the people should be the supreme law’

          January 25, 2021

          An ancient principle of justice points to solutions for today’s four-fold mega-crisis

          Public Meeting, February 6

          Crisis in the Amazon: A Planetary Challenge

          January 24, 2021

          Can the world's most important rain forest be saved?

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