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26/10/22
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Timothy M. Lenton, Johan Rockström, Owen Gaffney, Stefan Rahmstorf, Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen & Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
An aeroplane flies over a glacier in the Wrangell St Elias National Park in Alaska. Credit: Frans Lanting/Nat Geo Image Collection

Nov. 27, 2019 |Correction Apr. 9, 2020

26/10/22
Author: 
Linda Geddes
A glacier undergoing submarine melting in south-west Greenland. Photograph: Donald Slater/University of Edinburgh/PA

Oct. 19, 2022

Analysis of Arctic lake suggests viruses and bacteria locked in ice could reawaken and infect wildlife

The next pandemic may come not from bats or birds but from matter in melting ice, according to new data.

Genetic analysis of soil and lake sediments from Lake Hazen, the largest high Arctic freshwater lake in the world, suggests the risk of viral spillover – where a virus infects a new host for the first time – may be higher close to melting glaciers.

26/10/22
Author: 
David Harvey
Crises of Capitalism

Here's a very excellent video adaptation of a 2010 David Harvey presentation which explains the 2008 economic crisis and how the financialization of capital (among other things) helped to contribute to that crisis.

In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system?

Watch Here

26/10/22
Author: 
Martin Lukacs
Anjali Appadurai

Oct. 26, 2022

A ‘culture of cheating,’ party insiders say, stopped climate activist Anjali Appadurai from becoming premier

It was early September, and a top official in B.C.’s New Democratic Party had put in a call to the Ottawa office of Canada’s largest labour organization. The caller was panicked.

“We fucked up,” they said, according to a source familiar with the call.

25/10/22
Author: 
Sonia Furstenau
Coastal GasLink is preparing to drill a path for its pipeline under Wedzin Kwa, or the Morice River. Photo via Gidimt’en Checkpoint Twitter.

Oct. 25, 2022

Given the company’s environmental record, the government should stop work on the pipeline rather than subsiziding it.

As Coastal GasLink drills under the Wedzin Kwa (Morice River), I have been reflecting on my visit to Wet’suwet’en territory this summer. My colleague, Green MLA Adam Olsen, and I had the great honour of being invited to the territory as guests and witnesses.

22/10/22
Author: 
Mike Ludwig
A CSX freight train is seen in Orlando on September 14, 2022. PAUL HENNESSY / SOPA IMAGES / LIGHTROCKET

Oct. 22, 2022

A potential showdown between organized labor and Wall Street looms over the world of freight trains: An influential railroad workers group is urging fellow union members to reject a tentative labor agreement that has prevented an industry-wide strike, and to fight for public ownership of railroads. Negotiations are tense, and the unions are telling members that every vote counts.

22/10/22
Author: 
Vaughn Palmer
David Eby holds a news conference Friday after being named NDP leader to replace John Horgan. PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG

Oct. 21, 2022

Disgruntled Appadurai supporters gear up to take control of NDP, riding by riding.

VICTORIA — Premier-designate David Eby wrote to NDP members this week in an effort to patch things up with Anjali Appadurai supporters after her ouster as a candidate for the party leadership.

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