‘Growth imperative’ versus ‘climate imperative’

Attempts to use capitalist markets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ignore the fact that fossil fuels are the lifeblood of the capitalist economy, and the strongest forces in the market are fossil fuel producers

In defense of Murray Bookchin

Ian Angus reviews 'Recovering Bookchin' -- An important book on the anarchist environmentalist that redeems his reputation and provides an invaluable overview of the political project he called social ecology.

Did McGill University whitewash asbestos?

Industry-funded research at one of Canada's largest universities has been used to cover up the overwhelming scientific evidence that asbestos is deadly

Oceans on the brink of ecological collapse

Marine scientists say the health of the oceans is in crisis. A 'deadly trio' of emission impacts may have already initiated a mass extinction event, a mass die-off of species and catastrophic loss of biodiversity.

An open letter to the UK Green Left

Green Left activist Sean Thompson says ecosocialists should leave the rightward-moving Green Party, and join the effort to build a new political party of the left in Britain.

Colombian peasants mobilize to block giant El Quimbo dam

Interview: How laborers, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers have united to block construction of the giant El Quimbo Dam, a multinational project that would destroy the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of peasant families in southern Colombia.