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Massive New Port in Peru Threatens Amazon

07/12/25
Author: 
Inside Climate News
Link: 
Georgina Gustin
The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

Dec. 1, 2025

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.

 Eleventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.

CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.

Category: 
Agriculture
Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Fisheries
Forestry
Global
Protest - Revolt
Social
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The Many Faces of (In)Equality

06/12/25
Author: 
Sam Gindin
Link: 
The Bullet
Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality,

Dec. 5, 2025

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Global
Labour - Unions
Social
USA
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The Crofton Mill Closure Highlights Multiple Government Failures

06/12/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Link: 
The Tyee
Premier David Eby visited the Crofton pulp mill in 2023 to announce government funding to help the facility. The company returned the money after it curtailed paper production. Photo via BC government.

Dec. 5, 2025

Raw log exports, capital flight and shuttered mills signal the fall of BC’s forestry sector.

The provincial Conservatives wasted no time calling for Forests Minister Ravi Parmar’s head this week after Domtar announced it would soon shutter its Crofton pulp mill.

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British Columbia
Capitalism
Ecology/Environment
Forestry
Global
Indigenous Peoples
Labour - Unions
Social
USA
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France recalls Canadian lentils as Carney weakens pesticide rules

06/12/25
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Link: 
National Observer
Illustration by National Observer/Ata Ojani

Dec. 5, 2025

Canadian lentils are exposing simmering tensions between Carney's European trade ambitions and his government's proposal to eliminate a key part of Canada's pesticide risk assessment, observers say. 

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Agriculture
Canada
Ecology/Environment
Environmental Groups
Global
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How popular is ecosocialist transformation?

06/12/25
Author: 
Jason Hickel
Link: 
/jasonhickel.substack.com
suspension bridge

In US and UK

Dec. 4, 2025

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Category: 
'Alternative' energy and less energy
Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Ecosocialism
Global
Labour - Unions
Social
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'Godfather of AI' Predicts Mass Unemployment

04/12/25
Author: 
Preston Fore
Link: 
MSN
Tech giants are “betting on AI replacing a lot of workers,” warns ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton—but adds that anyone confident about long-term tech predictions are kidding themselves. © GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images

Dec. 4, 2025

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Canada
Capitalism
Global
Industry Spin
Labour - Unions
Social
USA
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Floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand leave more than 1,140 dead

01/12/25
Author: 
News Agencies
Link: 
Aljazeera

Dec. 1, 2025

Torrential rain has left Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia under water.

watch video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/1/floods-in-indonesia-sri-lanka-thailand-leave-close-to-1000-dead

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Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Global
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Did the climate world misread Carney?

01/12/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Dec. 1, 2025

Mark Carney, the central banker, was the thought leader the climate movement needed: someone who could translate the reality of climate change into the language of finance. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure. To state the obvious, these are not the decisions of a climate champion. 

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
Global
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A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit

01/12/25
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
The plan to daily pump 1.4 million more barrels of bitumen includes expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, shown here being buried in Abbotsford, BC, in 2023. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Dec. 1, 2025

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Lo and behold, Prime Minister Mark Carney, a global banker, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a petro-populist à la Donald Trump, have big energy plans for Canadians.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Energy
Global
LNG - Fracking
Nuclear
Oil - Pipelines
Social
Tar Sands
USA
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Canada Calls Its Reactors Peaceful. It’s Not So Simple

28/11/25
Author: 
Michael Harris i
Link: 
The Tyee
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, announces $3 billion in funding for a new kind of nuclear reactor with Ontario Premier Doug Ford in Ontario on Oct. 23. Photo by Laura Proctor, the Canadian Press.

Nov. 28, 2025

A venerable anti-nuclear war group says Carney’s SMR funding could fuel a new arms race.

With the planet running a carbon-induced fever and desperate to replace fossil fuels, Canada is one of the countries turning to nuclear energy.

Not everyone is pleased. That includes a 45-year-old organization known as the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

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Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Environmental Groups
Global
Nuclear
Social
War/military
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