Climate and Environmental Crisis

Extreme weather and mass incarceration deaths

Houston Across the hottest places in the U.S., people in prisons, jails and detention centers often face unbearable and sometimes…

July 20, 2022

Icebergs, SCOTUS and EPA − a WW commentary

Before I understood what it all meant, I thought it was awe-inspiring to see icebergs in the ocean waters around…

July 6, 2022

Famine fueled by greed stalks the world’s poor

According to Oxfam and Save the Children, 1,500 people — mainly children under age 5 and elders — are dying…

June 30, 2022

In Massachusetts, residents, activists unite to fight green-washing corporation

Boston Protesting corporate greed and destruction of the environment, a crew of activists from Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, and western…

May 30, 2022

Famine in East Africa – hundreds of thousands threatened

Food prices are soaring worldwide. Not just prices of wheat and other grains, which is where the U.S. and its…

May 26, 2022

Cómo opresión de clases impulsa crisis climáticas: un comentario de WW 

Publicado originalmente en Workers World/Mundo Obrero, el 30 de septiembre del 2020, este artículo es aún más oportuno después del…

May 20, 2022

COVID-19, global warming, war can starve the world’s poorest

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, two-thirds of the families in the 70 poorest countries, the ones that the…

May 19, 2022

How class oppression drives climate crises–a WW commentary

Originally published in Workers World, Sept. 30, 2020, this article is even more timely after Earth Day 2022. The U.S.…

April 27, 2022

Heat waves melt ice at both poles of Earth

This updated article first appeared on workers.org March 30, 2022.   The climate crisis is real. Millions of people throughout…

April 21, 2022

Heat waves melt ice at both poles of Earth

The climate crisis is real. Millions of people throughout the world are suffering and dying from floods and rising sea…

March 30, 2022