Climate Change
“Don’t Look Up” Is as Funny and Terrifying About Global Warming...
Adam McKay’s new movie may be the first film in 57 years to equal the comedy and horror of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece.
By Jon Schwarz
December...
As corporations fight to control the Pacific, Biden must act to...
By Andrea Folds and Jake Kornack,
Dec 6, 2021
Amid the global push for progress on climate change and the growing biodiversity crisis, the little-known International...
Updated Extinction Assessment Drives Fresh Call to ‘Save Life on Earth’
"Every new look at extinction shows that we're running out of time to save wildlife and ultimately ourselves."
By Andrea Germanos
December 9, 2021
The Biden administration...
Germany’s New Government Is in Thrall to Neoliberal Hawks
By Ines Schwerdtner
Dec.8,2021
Today, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz became leader of Germany’s new government. But with fiscal hawk Christian Lindner in charge of the...
‘Lighting the Fuse on a Massive Carbon Bomb’: Biden Rebuked on...
"It's hard to imagine a more dangerous, hypocritical action in the aftermath of the climate summit."
By Brett Wilkins
November 16, 2021
photo: U.S. Coast Guard/Flickr/cc
Climate and environmental...
Climate protesters shut down world’s largest coal port
17 Nov, 2021
Two climate activists in Australia have brought the world’s busiest coal port to a halt, strapping themselves to a massive piece of...
Climate conspiracy theorists say it is suspicious that every single research...
October 8, 2021
A group of climate change conspiracy theorists has uncovered a set of strange patterns and repeated terminology in research papers which they...
Leaders at COP26 Are ‘Massively Killing the Paris Agreement,’ Critics Say...
"The deal on the table is a death sentence for millions of those on the frontlines."
By Julia Conley
November 12, 2021
After nearly two weeks of negotiations,...
Cop26 was a failure. But the people’s alternative can still be...
Has COP26, which has wound up in Glasgow after two weeks of political showboating and grassroots protest, been a failure?
In one sense the answer...
Why are you asking us to compromise on our lives?
by Vijay Prashad
Nov.12, 2021
photo: Hwang Jeongeun
Dear friends,
Greeting from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Nothing useful seemed to emerge from the United...