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- 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-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024A new translation of Marx’s Capital, the role of animal poop in Earth’s life support systems, and more---READ-->>
- Deaths at sea: Mass media mourns the rich, ignores the poorThe sinking of a super-yacht gets mass coverage, while thousands of refugees drown in darkness---READ-->>
- Maasai people protest forced evictions and loss of rights‘Like Apartheid.’ Tanzanian pastoralists expelled from traditional lands, denied voting rights---READ-->>
- China adopts guidelines to speed green transitionCPC promises ‘remarkable results’ in all areas of economic and social development by 2030---READ-->>
- Extremely hot days double for half a billion childrenAcross 100 countries, over half of children experience twice as many heatwaves as 60 years ago---READ-->>