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Lakes and reservoirs have lost 22 gigatonnes a year since 1992, driven by factors including global heating and human consumption
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s – chiefly because of the climate crisis and human consumption – intensifying (...)
How genetic engineering and weed killers accelerate capitalism’s assault on insect life
“Plants are, of course, the basis of almost every food chain, and by developing methods of farming that almost entirely eradicate weeds from arable fields, such that crops are often close to pure (...)
Even in death, a tree helps others live.
Trees can die suddenly or quite slowly.
Fire, flood or wind can cause a quick death by severely damaging a tree’s ability to transport water and nutrients up and down its trunk.
Sometimes a serious insect attack or disease can kill a tree. This kind of (...)
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The (...)
A new generation of superkillers is destroying billions of essential insects worldwide Between December 2018 and February 2019, more than five hundred million honeybees were found dead by beekeepers in southern Brazil. If wild bees had been counted, the death toll would likely have been many (...)
Many people saw their eating habits change during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Some ate more frequently or experimented with healthier recipes. Others ordered more deliveries.
But human diets weren’t the only ones to change. In a recent study, we found that lockdown triggered changes in the diets of (...)
The world’s insects are among the principal victims of capitalist agricultural concentration
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In the years following World War II, global capitalism went into overdrive, with devastating effects on the biosphere. Powered by fossil fuels (...)
What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University (...)
The Pacific Ocean climate pattern is the opposite of El Niño.
It was anchovy fishermen in Peru who first noticed and named El Niño events in the tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. Their catches would fluctuate and the largest declines were seen near Christmas when the ocean was at its (...)
Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking.
When academic Kohei Saito submitted his manuscript on Karl Marx, the ecological crisis and arguments for degrowth economics, he hoped it might introduce at least (...)
The rapid decline of Earth’s most numerous animals is a major threat to the biosphere
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“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called (...)
Green Left’s Susan Price spoke to Canadian ecosocialist Marc Bonhomme about the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15), which took place in Montreal from December 7‒19.
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Susan Price: COP15 in Montreal received far less media attention than COP27 in Egypt. Why is (...)
Who would have bet that the COP15 on biodiversity, which ended in Montreal this Monday (December 19), was going to stumble on the question of funding, would have risked nothing. The problem of the final sprint is understood as follows:
“The main objective of the Montreal conference is to reach (...)
A statement from a variety of campaigning organisations about the debates at COP 15 on biodiversity in Montreal from December 7-19 issued during the debates there
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1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or (...)
• On December 13, the US Department of Energy announced that the National Ignition Facility had reached a “milestone”: the achievement of “ignition” in nuclear fusion earlier in the month.
• While the step has been described as a milestone in clean energy, generating electricity commercially or at (...)
“At the front of the gathering, Indigenous delegations from Quebec and Western Canada, but also from South America and Africa, led the way. […] The march brought together 3,500 people, according to the Collectif COP15, the CBD Alliance and the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, as well as (...)
After China withdrew last summer due to covid, COP15 on biodiversity was transferred to Montreal, where its permanent secretariat is located. It will be held from December 7 to 19. This COP is much less publicized than the one on climate, although the current catastrophe it is supposed to (...)
Alan Thornett offers his thoughts on a troubling end to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh.
COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held last month in Sharm El-Sheikh to confront the planetary emergency caused by climate change, failed spectacularly in (...)
Last week’s COP27 summit in Egypt ended with the world still on track for a disastrous rise in global temperatures. But a new climate policy from Brazil after Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat was one ray of hope for those on the front lines of the climate crisis.
s world leaders gathered for this year’s (...)
Experts say biggest economies must pledge more cuts to carbon emissions but hail agreement to set up loss and damage fund
The world still stands “on the brink of climate catastrophe” after the deal reached at the Cop27 UN climate summit on Sunday, and the biggest economies must make fresh (...)
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