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Slightly warmer temperatures caused Atlantic superstorms
A hundred thousand years ago, slightly warmer temperatures and CO2 levels lower than today led to dramatic superstorms and sea-level rise in the western Atlantic Ocean
“There is no convincing alternative explanation”
The new U.S. Climate Science Special Report is unequivocal: climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, especially greenhouse gas emissions, and it is getting more dangerous every day
John Bellamy Foster on Jacobin and Ecomodernism
The editor of Monthly Review responds to 'socialists' who view the environmental crisis as a problem of technology, not a fundamental rift in society's relationship with nature.
MR Press launches pathbreaking new books on ecosocialism
Kohei Saito, Ian Angus, Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams offer powerful, historically grounded arguments and a way forward for society and the earth
Lancet report: Health impact of climate change impact is ‘the major threat of 21st century’
The health of millions of people across the world is already being significantly harmed by climate change, a major new report finds.
Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record
'The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5 million years ago, the temperature was 2-3°C warmer and sea level was 10-20 meters higher than now.'
Sustainable agriculture versus corporate greed
Fred Magdoff reviews a new book in which Australian activists explain what’s wrong with corporate profit-centred agriculture and propose a manifesto for a people-centred alternative.
Economic reconstruction, debt cancellation and self-determination in Puerto Rico!
One month after Hurricane Maria: 'We need an adequately funded program of economic reconstruction (including the transition to renewable energy), the powers to carry it out and a true process of political self-determination.'
Mexican activists demand: Stop Canadian mega-mines now
Victims of mining tell Trudeau: Canadian mining corporations damage health, contaminate and destroy environments, dispossess indigenous people, and harass, smear and assassinate critics. Get out now!