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03/06/23
Author: 
Nicholas Kusnetz
Submerged area is seen after flash floods in Sunamganj, Bangladesh. Photo by Muhammad Amdad Hossain / Climate Visuals

May 30, 2023

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

29/05/23
Author: 
John Clarke
Planet over profit - Wikimedia Commons

May 22, 2023

‘Capitalism in the Anthropocene’ provides essential knowledge and insight for today’s ecosocialist movements

John Bellamy Foster
CAPITALISM IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution

Monthly Review Press, 2022

23/05/23
Author: 
Elham Shabahat - Hakai Magazine
Scientists are concerned about how much damage sediment kicked up by mining equipment will do to seabeds and ecosystems closer to the surface. Photo via Shutterstock.

Just how harmful could these emerging operations have on oceans and marine ecosystems?

22/05/23
Author: 
Tom Malleson
Illustration - Tax the rich

May 16 2023

To fight 21st-century inequality, Canada needs 21st-century taxes that force billionaires and corporations to pay their fair share

Ward McAllister, a wealthy New Yorker, recently threatened that if the U.S. Congress were to move ahead with its plans to levy a high income tax, the plan would backfire because it would simply drive “rich men to go abroad.”

17/05/23
Author: 
Fiona Harvey
Forest fires approaching the village of Pefki on Evia island, Greece, in 2021. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images

May 17, 2023

UN agency says El Niño and human-induced climate breakdown could combine to push temperatures into ‘uncharted territory’

The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned.

The breaching of the crucial 1.5C threshold, which scientists have warned could have dire consequences, should be only temporary, according to research from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

10/05/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Mining for rare earth metals for ever more battery-driven gadgetry is a vastly destructive and ultimately doomed response to the climate crisis argues the author. Photo via Shutterstock.

"A competent civilization would also tax out of existence monster homes. They also represent another issue no political leader wants to tackle: rampant economic inequality."

May 10, 2023

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