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Biodiversity under pressure

Rising heat may crash entire ecosystems

New studies show global warming is raising the risk of sudden, near total collapse of the wild populations that sustain human society. 

Book Review

Making room for humans in scientific ecology

20th century ecology moved from racism and eugenics to studies of undisturbed natural ecosystems. Today, ecological science must integrate social sciences.

Pandemic

Pulverized: Capitalism, Africa and Covid-19

In the Global North it is a 'novel threat.' In the South, it extends the common experience of brutal assaults accompanied by waves of illness and death