Climate and Environmental Crisis

Big Oil poisons Houston working-class, oppressed communities for profit

The smell in the Manchester neighborhood of Houston is like hot coffee — nutty, bitter and sweet. This smell isn’t…

September 4, 2016

The human toll of global warming — Alaska to Louisiana

What ties together developments in the Alaskan village of Shishmaref, on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, with the extraordinary…

September 4, 2016

Letter of support to Standing Rock: Stop pipelines, climate change and capitalism

Following is a statement published in mid-August on the site of The Red Nation about the important environmental struggle in…

September 4, 2016

Native peoples block toxic oil pipeline

Aug. 23 — The start of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multi-state, 1,100-mile-long crude oil pipeline to be…

August 24, 2016

China, global warming and technological innovation

Any meaningful efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions, the main cause of global warming, must deal with the issue of…

August 11, 2016

Facing explosion of Zika in Puerto Rico, protest stops toxic spraying before it starts

There is widespread opposition in Puerto Rico to the imposition of aerial spraying of Naled by the Centers for Disease…

August 11, 2016

Zika, the Olympics and the Brazilian coup

More than 230 scientific researchers, bioethicists and health experts from around the world have written an open letter charging that…

June 24, 2016

Zika: Crisis of the poor

As the thermometer soars past 90 degrees and Zika arrives in the Southern states, summer won’t be fun and games,…

June 12, 2016

Detroit activists oppose increased fracking waste

Detroit residents and community activists have been organizing since last year to oppose the increased processing and dumping of hazardous…

May 27, 2016

Environmental, Indigenous groups protest climate change

Anacortes, Wash. - From May 13 through May 15, the group “Break Free Pacific Northwest” held a weekend of actions…

May 23, 2016