collapse of the old society

Indian capital imposes emergency measures including closing schools and offices and barring heavy vehicles

Only by shifting decision-making power away from bureaucratic institutions (like parliaments) and mechanisms (like the profit-driven capitalist market) towards grassroots participatory organs (such as popular assemblies and councils of delegates) that a new, much more sustainable, ecological, and de...

Conservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.

In closed hearing, lawyer Alison Battisson says Australia has a ‘terrifying’ record of detaining people unlawfully for indefinite periods

Dame Sally Davies says action on deadly antibiotic-resistant infections must be prioritised

Some 13% of Americans potentially get their drinking water from untreated groundwater sources with detectable concentrations of PFAS.

Delegates will meet soon in South Korea in their last scheduled gathering to get a grip on plastic pollution, with health and the environment on the line.

Why New York’s November wildfires are so alarming.

Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.

Climate scientists have long identified 1.5º of global temperature rise as a grave milestone for avoiding disaster

Murrumbidgee River, in New South Wales, had 55% less water in 2018 than it did in 1988, with the Lowbidgee Floodplain hardest hit

Donald Trump has 267 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House and is leading in key races left to be called, including Michigan and Wisconsin.

OP-ED. In an op-ed for 'Le Monde,' geographer Magali Reghezza warns of major risks posed by climate inaction: Each additional tenth of a degree exponentially increases hydroclimatic extremes.

The Destruction of our Fright Railways

A tracking project that has been in place since nations vowed to act on climate in 2015 sees a measurable increase in exposure to disease and dangerous conditions.

Prominent anti-vaccine figures convinced the district not to offer COVID shots at all.

New details emerged about ICE's 'Citizens Academy' program after the Center for Constitutional Rights published internal ICE documents.

Scientists have issued yet another clarion call regarding our seemingly unstoppable momentum toward climate catastrophe. In a recent article, The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth, some of the world’s leading climate scientists lay it out.

In fire-prone areas, water isn't the only thing used to quell blazes. Wildland firefighters also apply chemical or synthetic suppressants. Researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology Letters explored whether these suppressants could be a source of elevated metal levels sometimes foun...

Can thousands of pounds of sulfur dioxide pumped into the stratosphere reverse global warming? We may soon find out.

A group of scientists warned Monday of the greatly underestimated risk of a collapse of ocean currents in the Atlantic which could have catastrophic consequences for the Nordic countries as the region's leaders gathered in Iceland.

Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADR) on mutual aid organizing in Florida following recent hurricanes. On September 24th, category 4 Hurricane Helene began gouging its destructive path across the southeast causing flooding along the gulf coast of Florida even before slamming at landfall into...

Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on autonomous mutual aid efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene in Appalachia. This is about a storm some call Helene and others call Capitalism, Greed, Callous Neglect or the slow and then rapid degradation of the one and only Earth we’ve got. But it is also ...

Just designating key areas will not meet 30x30 target on nature loss, study says, pointing to oil drilling in parks

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) found that specific insecticides, called neonicotinoids, were found at high concentrations in some ground and surface water sources that could affect drinki...

Conspiracy theories in small-town Alabama

Forests once deemed resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change, researchers need to understand how trees die.

As the Cop16 biodiversity conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone

Only 32 of the 193 Parties to the CBD have submitted their updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) ahead of COP16.

A new report finds that one-quarter of the world’s crops are grown in places facing high levels of water stress, water unreliability, or both.

Grind culture has come for the teens.

Many climate scenarios bake in a temperature overshoot before technologies are used to scrub the atmosphere clean of emissions. Emerging science says that is probably a fool’s errand.

A prototype app called Impact describes “A Volunteer Fire Department For The Digital World,” which would summon real people to copy and paste AI-generated talking points on social media.

Yi Fuxian argues that the country’s efforts to mitigate the effects of rapid demographic aging are too little, too late.