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18/01/23
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Logs piled up awaiting conversion to wood pellets at a factory now owned by multinational Drax Group. Photo from Stand.earth.

Jan. 18, 2023

The closure of a Prince George pulp mill is yet another warning we’re running out of trees.

18/01/23
Author: 
Jake Johnson
A demonstrator is seen holding a sign at a climate protest in Manhattan on October 29, 2021. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Jan. 18, 2023

"It is business as usual for most banks and investors who continue to support fossil fuel developers without any restrictions, despite their high-profile commitments to carbon neutrality."

Top banks in the United States and around the world have made a show of embracing net-zero emissions pledges, portraying themselves as allies in the fight against the global climate emergency.

17/01/23
Author: 
Rob Miller
The brave new frontier of artificial intelligence could bring the promise — and chaos — we have seen with social media. Photo by Tara Winstead/Pexels

 

". . . I asked ChatGPT what it thought about clearcutting old-growth forests."

 

Jan. 17, 2023

17/01/23
Author: 
Philip Oltermann
Garments from the Realitywear collection shown at the spoof launch event. ‘This announcement is not by Adidas and not correct,’ a spokesperson for the sportswear company said. Photograph: Realitywear

Jan. 16, 2023

Adidas has had to deny it appointed a former Cambodian union leader as its new co-CEO and launched a Derelicte-style collection of garments pre-worn by factory workers, as a spoof launch event at Berlin fashion week sent confusion around the fashion world.

14/01/23
Author: 
CBC The Current
Bill McKibben

Website editor: Ecosocialists will find this interview lacking on such questions as consumption, profit and inequality and yet: "Is your faith in governments or in individuals to force that change? Neither, my faith is in movements.  I think the most important thing individuals can do is be a little bit less of an individual and join together in movements with others large enough to make change happen"

 

 

 Jan. 13, 2023

11/01/23
Author: 
Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif
‘Pakistan is suffering not just from flooding, but from recurring climate extremes.’ People queue for food in Sehwan. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Jan. 6, 2023

The apocalyptic rains and floods that hit Pakistan last summer claimed 1,700 lives, left a swathe of territory the size of Switzerland under water and affected 33 million people – more people than live in most European countries.

10/01/23
Author: 
John Woodside
(L-R) Liberal MP Gudie Hutchings, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speak as they arrive on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022 in Stephenville, N.L. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Jan. 10, 2023

Allegations of patronage and a cozy relationship between a billionaire and a Canadian premier are threatening to upend a multibillion-dollar green energy project.

09/01/23
Author: 
Virginia Fontes
Brazil SOS

January 9, 2023 

Lula’s victory raises many hopes, despite the alliances made too early with a motley array of forces, including those who helped to topple Dilma Roussef in 2016, and those who welcomed Lula’s April 2018 jail sentence.

09/01/23
Author: 
The Associated Press
Some stormed the Congress building, climbing on top of its roof and breaking the glass in its windows. (Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images)

Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his electoral defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital on Sunday, just a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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