Pollution, not disease, is the biggest killer in the developing world, taking the lives of more than 8.4 million people each year, a new analysis shows. That’s almost three times the deaths caused by malaria and fourteen times those caused by...
US president Barack Obama announced major new regulations on pollution on Monday of this week. His supporters greeted it as a dramatic step forward in the fight against climate change. But the plan is far less ambitious than it sounds. The...
Shipping coal to China could wipe out the benefits of Obama’s climate-change policy The centerpiece of Barack Obama’s climate policy, announced this month, limits greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants largely by cutting the country’s...
Turkish IWW member Yusuf Cemal describes the atmosphere in Turkey, following Soma mining disaster. Can you describe the general atmosphere in Turkey at the moment? Where do you see the protests going from here? Any predictions for what the summer...
For anyone who sees themselves as more progressive than Nigel Farage, life under the new Australian government hasn’t been very exciting – but over the last few weeks we have seen what could be one of the great political shifts in the...
Think about the last time you got to the top of a mountain one mile high. Now think about descending that distance below the surface of the earth, foot by dark foot, far below all life, light or oxygen. You go down there to dig. What you’re digging...
Introductory note by Vancouver Ecosocialists: Much of the planned expansion of coal exports from the ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert is the therrmal coal that is strip mined in Wyoming. The following article looks at the dim commercial...
“Oil, tar sands, coal, natural gas: What’s behind the expansion drive of Canada’s and North America’s fossil fuel industries?” Presented at UCSB on April 11th, 2014
EASTSOUND, Wash. — FROM where I live on Orcas Island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle, I can see Cherry Point across the wind-whipped waters of the Salish Sea. This sandy promontory jutting into Georgia Strait has become the focus of heated debate...
Regulators in Washington state have decided to undertake a sweeping environmental review of a proposed coal export terminal on the Columbia River at Longview. The Millennium Bulk Terminals proposal would see construction of a port capable of...
