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- COP-out 29: The Baku BetrayalThe 2024 climate summit was a disaster for the developing world, a betrayal of both people and planet---READ-->>
- Extreme heatwaves exceed forecasts, kill thousandsNew research shows that climate models underestimate regional heating by large margins---READ-->>
- Atlantic circulation weakening much faster than predictedAMOC redistributes heat around the world; Slowdown will disrupt climate and ecosystems---READ-->>
- Extreme heat weakens land’s power to absorb carbonDisturbing research suggests nature is losing the ability to absorb greenhouse gas emissions---READ-->>
- CO2 from burning fossil fuels sets new global record‘No sign’ of transition; CO2 removal captures only one-millionth of new emissions---READ-->>
- Warming turns ordinary dry spells into unprecedented droughtsAs Earth warms, droughts are getting bigger, drier and more frequent---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2024On capitalism and climate crisis, restoring forests, waters in revolt, and a dangerous billionaire---READ-->>
- The deadly environmental toll of superyachts and private jetsEvery week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime---READ-->>
- COP or CON? Big Conservation corrupts biodiversity protectionColonial, abusive and ineffective, but hugely profitable for certain actors---READ-->>
- Basic physics explains why storms are getting strongerClimate is not just changing, it HAS changed. Historical assumptions no longer hold.---READ-->>
- Ubiquitous plastic: A deadly threat to human healthEvery year, millions of tons enter our lungs, blood, and brains---READ-->>
- How climate change destroyed a tar sands boomtownFire Weather: A remarkable account of the reality of disaster in modern neoliberal society---READ-->>
- Overshoot-and-return: A dangerous climate change illusionOnce the 1.5°C limit is passed, there will be no going back---READ-->>
- Global water supply faces unprecedented stressThe hydrological cycle has accelerated, becoming more erratic and unpredictable---READ-->>
- 485 million years of heat, carbon dioxide, and human survivalHumans and our hominid ancestors have only lived in the most recent cool period---READ-->>
- Climate crisis enters ‘critical and unpredictable new phase’Scientists warn: ‘The future of humanity hangs in the balance.’---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2024New books on oil, empire, the science of death, fungal health threats, degrowth, and socialist strategy---READ-->>
- The environmental cost of Israel’s genocide in GazaWestern support of war means support for unprecedented environmental destruction---READ-->>
- Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of controlFour years on, nothing has been learned from COVID-19---READ-->>
- Methane emissions rising faster than everAtmospheric concentrations of methane are now the highest they’ve been for at least 800,000 years---READ-->>