Climate and Environmental Crisis

With the global climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion protests

Extinction Rebellion, a grassroots environmental organization, called for civil disobedience protests around the world starting April 15 to spotlight the…

April 25, 2019

Planning can save the planet: China chooses renewable energy

The very corporations that are responsible for the problem are denying global warming, with immediate consequences for the whole world.…

April 23, 2019

Fossil fuel projects grow along Columbia River

The Columbia River, stretching from Alberta, Canada, and serving as a large portion of the border between Oregon and Washington…

April 2, 2019

Climate change is driving social change

The terrible news on unfolding climate change can have opposite effects on people: despair, lassitude and denial -- or angry…

March 29, 2019

In Houston, chemical fires cause immeasurable pain, illness, fear

Houston, TX -- The morning of March 17 saw dark black billowing smoke begin to cloud the skies of east…

March 27, 2019

Around world, students, pupils skip classes to protest climate policies

The following article was published in the March 16-17 issue of Junge Welt, a progressive German daily newspaper. Excerpts were…

March 21, 2019

Impact of global warming on Arctic community in Nome, Alaska

Nome, Alaska, had back-to-back blizzards followed by rain, ending a February that saw temperatures in the upper 20s or low…

March 11, 2019

The key to climate change

Almost a century and a half ago, Karl Marx’s closest collaborator, Frederick Engels, wrote about the degradation of the environment…

March 5, 2019

WW Commentary: Carbon tax NO, green jobs YES!

This is a critical time for the world. What happens over the next few decades can determine the health of…

December 20, 2018

What could be more urgent?

In all the dire news about the increased severity of climate change and its catastrophic effects, the most important element…

December 1, 2018