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Over 15,000 temperature records broken in warmest U.S. March
U.S. government scientists say that record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record, a record that dates back to 1895.
Alberta's killing fields: Scapegoating wolves for tar sands destruction
Over the last several months, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves, to conceal the impact of rapid industrial development on woodland caribou
If growth is the problem, why hasn't it been stopped?
Why, in the face of massive evidence that the constant expansion of production and resource-extraction is killing us, do governments and corporations keep shoveling coal for the runaway growth train? Ian Angus introduces Gareth Dale's critique of the "the growth paradigm."
Eric Hobsbawm: The myth of "responsible capitalism"
Video: Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawmn interviewed on the BBC. Can capitalism change its stripes?
Bella Bella: Peaceful protest unnerves tar sands regulators; Youth launch hunger strike against pipeline
Video of Bella Bella residents' welcome to the government's pipeline review panel, and an eyewitness report on the protest and the regulators' cowardly response.
Liberalism and climate change: A remedial assessment
Whatever the slipperiness of its meaning, usage, or connotation over time, liberalism is and has always been, at bottom, a defence of capitalism. If we are serious about addressing climate change, it is long past time to move forward beyond liberalism and beyond social democracy.
Arctic climate change causing droughts, floods, and heat waves outside the north
A new study shows that rapid Arctic warming exerts a growing influence on the weather far beyond the Arctic Circle raising the probability of long-duration extreme events for many years to come.
Lakotas launch hunger strike against tar sands pipelines
Members of the Lakota Nation in South Dakota have launched a 48-hour hunger strike against the Keystone and Gateway pipelines, in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia
Ontario: Indigenous resistance turns back mining assault on sovereignty
Firm resistance by Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has forced the Ontario government to buy out mining leases, preventing another assault on Indigenous rights and lands