Climate and Environmental Crisis

Reforestation: Cuba leads the way

Before 1492, what is today the United States had about 1 billion acres of forests. From 1600 on, at least…

September 18, 2019

Indicting the Pentagon as climate criminal

Why is the vast global movement that focuses on the imminent crisis facing the planet -- the climate crisis --…

September 18, 2019

Labor and climate activism

The prevailing myths about U.S. workers and the organized labor movement — that labor and climate action are in conflict,…

September 18, 2019

How climate disaster impacts oppressed peoples

The following excerpts are from a statement the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network prepared for its summit meeting in Whitakers,…

September 18, 2019

Miles obligados a huir de Bahamas

9 de septiembre − Cuando el huracán Dorian se detuvo en Gran Bahamas y las Islas Abacos en las Bahamas…

September 17, 2019

‘No es demasiado tarde’ para resolver la crisis climática

La crisis climática se cierne como la Parca para todos nosotros, especialmente los jóvenes. Hemos nacido en esta crisis. Muchos…

September 17, 2019

BlackRock billionaire hit for rainforest destruction

Demonstrators gathered outside the Circa Center in Philadelphia on Sept. 5 where BlackRock, the world's largest investment firm, has a…

September 14, 2019

G7 hypocrites protest but exploit the Amazon anyway

Published in the Italian journal Il Manifesto on Sept. 3. Translation by John Catalinotto. Faced with the spread of fires…

September 14, 2019

Bears Ears fight exposes energy companies, U.S. genocide

Trump’s plan to steal 1 million acres from Bears Ears National Monument laid bare the entire history of U.S. genocide…

September 12, 2019

Democrats: No debate on climate crisis

In a small room at Hudson Yards, a ritzy, new Manhattan retail and housing complex, 10 Democratic candidates for president…

September 12, 2019