Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns 'carbon offset' schemes that steal forests
Túpac Amaru Declaration
Global heating
Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season
Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season
1.5º out of reach
Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises
Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions
heat kills
Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed
Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050
Extreme Weather
Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme
Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water
Social Murder
Who is responsible for heat that kills?
New study identifies corporate culprits in deaths from rise in extreme heat waves
Breaching Planetary Boundaries
60% of Earth’s land area is now out of the safe operating zone
Structural changes have pushed a majority of land ecosystems into precarious conditions
Stop Greenwash
Protecting communities from carbon markets
Carbon markets and offsets have failed to actually reduce emissions after decades of trying
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025
Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language, & planning
Worldwide, 2.1 billion people still lack safe drinking water
Universal access to safe water and sanitation is increasingly out of reach
Red-Green Library
Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.
Big tech & fossil fuels
Microsoft versus the planet
Ex-employees highlight how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.
Fiery Red Interview
For an ‘ecommunist’ alternative to degrowth and luxury communism
If the working class does not tackle capitalism, then reactionary solutions will be imposed
Decisive Action Needed
‘Climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people’
Statement adopted by the Global Tipping Points Conference, June 30-July 3
Fact or fantasy?
Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?
Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?
New Climate indicators
Global heating isn’t just getting worse. It is getting worse faster.
Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate
Summer Reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2025
Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein's socialism
Overheating
1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?
It may be ‘technically possible,’ to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen..
Greenwash
Carbon capture company emits more than it captures
CCS illusion only delays the elimination of fossil fuels
Who Rules?
Some thoughts on Nature and the German Peasants’ War
“The domain forest and other woods have been removed from our use, contrary to ancient tradition.”