Climate and Environmental Crisis

COP26: Youth demand change, politicians protect fossil fuel industry

Two weeks of high-profile negotiations, against a background of climate catastrophes, ended Nov. 13 with little to show for the…

November 17, 2021

A union worker’s perspective from Puerto Rico – before and after Hurricane María

By Walberto Rolón I began lineman training in 1989 – a chance that for many of Puerto Rico’s youth is…

November 12, 2021

COP26: More “blah, blah, blah!”

Midway through the COP26 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, over 100,000 youth marched Nov. 5 to express consensus that…

November 10, 2021

Supply chain crisis: Driven by deregulation

Corporate media and the Biden administration have focused on major West Coast ports, specifically Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.,…

November 4, 2021

International Tribunal finds U.S. guilty of crimes against humanity

The International Tribunal on Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples was held Oct. 23-25 at The Malcolm…

November 1, 2021

Defend Apache people’s Oak Flats

Apache Stronghold activists rallied in San Francisco Oct. 21, the day before the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard…

October 25, 2021

Protests demand Luma out!

Philadelphia Activists protesting the privatization of Puerto Rico’s electric utility company and the devastating power outages affecting the island’s most…

October 20, 2021

Global Day of Climate Action

The climate crisis school-strike movement, Fridays For Future, called a Global Day of Climate Action for Sept 24. More than…

October 1, 2021

‘Hands off the Arctic,’ says U.S. archaeologist

This article is an interview with Workers World contributor, archaeologist Paddy Colligan, from a series on the Arctic, from The…

September 22, 2021

Despite dire conditions, U.S. deports Haitians

An Aug. 14 earthquake completely devastated southwestern Haiti, the country’s breadbasket. At least 2,200 people were killed, and tens of…

September 20, 2021