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Environmental justice, health Indigenous and climate organizations urge Gov. Newsom and CalGEM to protect frontline communities over polluters’ profits BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— The oil industry […]

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Emile Chabal, author of a new biography of the massively popular and influential historian Eric Hobsbawm, explains how Hobsbawm’s Central European roots set him apart in Britain — and why he kept faith with communism through the devastation of his century.

Americans are suffering under an affordability crisis, while the climate crisis is making life more expensive. Both require urgent action — and both can be addressed simultaneously.

Register on Eventbrite here 6pm UK time, Thursday 5 November, on Zoom. Hosted by UCU Members for Ukraine and Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Too often Crimea is referred to as just a location on a map, a strategic location on the Black Sea. At this event, you will hear the lived realities of Crimea’s indigenous people, … Continue reading Reclaiming Crimean Tatar subjectivity in times of occupation and war (speaker event, 5 November 2026)

Senior figures from Britain’s armed forces, serving or retired, are openly intervening in national politics to demand a massive increase in military spending. The media rarely mentions their ties to private firms that stand to profit from the bonanza.

On July 22, Aurélie Filleau and her husband were given 10 minutes to get their children and a few possessions into the car before evacuating their house in Le Porge, a town near Bordeaux, France.  The family managed to bring their dog but left behind two cats and a parrot. “I wanted to protect them […]

Border wall construction in the Big Bend region puts Republican Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham in a bind: back President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda or respond to growing bipartisan opposition to the wall.  The Texas General Land Office manages 13 million acres across the state, much of it in far West Texas. Among its holdings […]

Blueberries, green beans, yellow squash, red onions, purple cabbage, oranges. At markets across Florida, colorful produce signals freshness and nutrition and attracts consumers.  Here, as in other states, food’s journey from farm to table begins by removing evidence of the farm. Namely: scrubbing away the soil that forms the foundation of our food system.  And […]

In 2008, in the depths of the Great Recession, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for “investment that fights climate change, creates millions of green jobs and spurs green growth.” He said what the world needs, in short, is a “Green New Deal.”

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The DNFSB recently came to Livermore with a message - it is being prevented from carrying out its mission.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—It’s hard to forget Uncle Bobo.  And on this humid October day, his nephew says it’s hard to remember him, too.  Devolin “Bobo” Webster, 66, died unexpectedly in his home Saturday morning as the remnants of Hurricane Isaias passed through the Magic City, more than 200 miles from where the category 2 storm made […]

Join the emergency protests at the US embassy in London on Friday 16 October, and at the US consulate in Edinburgh on Tuesday 20 October.

Incumbent New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman clashed over high energy costs in the state’s only gubernatorial debate, offering sharply different visions for how to keep electricity affordable as demand rises. Average residential electricity bills in New York rose 10 percent from 2024 to 2025, outpacing the national average. The state […]

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have a long friendship as seen in their meeting on June 28, 2019. Photo: Kremlin.ru CC 4.0 WHAT WAS EVIDENT to many observers from the onset of Donald Trump’s second presidency is now out in the open: Trump and Vladimir Putin are allies in Russia’s war to amputate and subjugate… Continue reading The Trump-Putin Axis

A new history traces the American idealization of homeownership. It lays bare the high social costs of organizing democracy around property values.

Coral-fringed tropical atolls are among the landforms most threatened by global warming, but many have a potential superpower: Healthy ecosystems may help them keep pace with rising seas. Atoll islands with native vegetation and thriving seabird populations are “naturally active systems that can change and adapt to their environmental conditions if they are allowed to […]

Metro DC DSA condemns in the strongest possible terms the Trump administration’s raid on Ilhan Omar’s home here in DC. We stand with Representative Omar in the face of this political persecution.

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More than 1 billion people per year were exposed to heat waves and fire pollution at the same time from 2010-2019, a sharp jump from the decade before it, according to a new study that highlights the growing public health crisis caused by global warming.  The research, published in Science Advances on Wednesday, is the […]

After two years of massive, student-led anti-corruption protests in Serbia, polls suggest their electoral list could win the October 25 election. It’s less clear how their ideologically diverse list can redirect protest energy into changing institutions.

A new study in the journal Seismica presents the first comprehensive seismic analysis of what happened during the disastrous flood in Nepal on Aug. 26. But exactly what triggered the mountainside to give way remains unclear.  A massive section of a Himalayan mountainside collapsed near the Nepal-China border, sending millions of cubic meters of rock […]