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Over 15,000 temperature records broken in warmest U.S. March
U.S. government scientists say that record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record, a record that dates back to 1895.
Alberta's killing fields: Scapegoating wolves for tar sands destruction
Over the last several months, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves, to conceal the impact of rapid industrial development on woodland caribou
If growth is the problem, why hasn't it been stopped?
Why, in the face of massive evidence that the constant expansion of production and resource-extraction is killing us, do governments and corporations keep shoveling coal for the runaway growth train? Ian Angus introduces Gareth Dale's critique of...
Eric Hobsbawm: The myth of "responsible capitalism"
Video: Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawmn interviewed on the BBC. Can capitalism change its stripes?
Bella Bella: Peaceful protest unnerves tar sands regulators; Youth launch hunger strike against pipeline
Video of Bella Bella residents' welcome to the government's pipeline review panel, and an eyewitness report on the protest and the regulators' cowardly response.
Liberalism and climate change: A remedial assessment
Whatever the slipperiness of its meaning, usage, or connotation over time, liberalism is and has always been, at bottom, a defence of capitalism. If we are serious about addressing climate change, it is long past time to move forward beyond...
Arctic climate change causing droughts, floods, and heat waves outside the north
A new study shows that rapid Arctic warming exerts a growing influence on the weather far beyond the Arctic Circle raising the probability of long-duration extreme events for many years to come.
Lakotas launch hunger strike against tar sands pipelines
Members of the Lakota Nation in South Dakota have launched a 48-hour hunger strike against the Keystone and Gateway pipelines, in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia
Ontario: Indigenous resistance turns back mining assault on sovereignty
Firm resistance by Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has forced the Ontario government to buy out mining leases, preventing another assault on Indigenous rights and lands
Marxist Ecology
The four laws of ecology and the four anti-ecological laws of capitalism
The ever-growing conflict between ecology and capitalism reflects the startling degree to which profit-making has become the primary and most powerful connection between human beings and between human beings and nature.
"We are the one percent!" Cops evict 'polluters'
Video: On March 24, mock corporate representatives erected an illegal occupation -- and the NYPD forces that usually defend the interests of the 1% had to evict the "corporate polluters" from UN grounds
Dirty Money: The true cost of Australia’s mineral boom
A valuable book that exposes the brutal devastation caused by mining companies and identifies the tycoons who benefit, the monsters in our midst.
Canadian Dimension review of Too Many People?
reviewed by Judy Deutsch. "Too Many People" is invaluable for people concerned about climate change, climate justice, environmental racism, and system change.
Saving resources and the environment: A modest proposal
by Fred Magdoff. If population growth is causing the environmental crisis, here's a simple 3-step solution that would actually work ...
Riots and role models
A UK government report blames last year's riots on the participants' "materialism and consumerism." They couldn't possibly have learned such anti-social values from Britain's ruling class. Could they?
Occupy climate change!
Occupy Wall Street is calling for a month of action leading up to Earth Day on April 22, to draw the Occupy movements further into the struggle to protect the climate, and to show the connections between the power of the 1% and the destruction of...
George Novack: The mission of humankind
[Quotes and Insights #32] "The present inhabitants of the earth are the raw material for the production of an authentically human race."
Michael Lebowitz: In the beginning is the dream
[Quotes and Insights #31] "That dream moves us – even as we catch only fleeting glimpses."
In Harm's Way
A new report from the IPCC provides extensive evidence that climate change is already increasing the frequency of droughts, floods, heatwaves and other extreme events, and shows how that combines with societal vulnerabilities to produce human...