Environment

Posts relating to environmental issues

Environment·Featured Articles·World News

El Niño adds fuel to the fire of climate catastrophe

By Isidora Durán Not a year goes by without climate scientists predicting record-breaking summer temperatures, and 2026 is no exception. Greenhouse gases are gradually warming the Earth towards catastrophic tipping points, but it is the sudden climate events intensified by this warming

Jun 8, 2026

Environment·News & Analysis

Commercial fishing trawlers and the destruction of marine ecosystem

By Varun Oceans make up about 71% of our planet. They are vastly unexplored and home to up to 2 million species. But those numbers are rapidly decreasing every day. People have been dependent on the abundance of seafood in the oceans

May 25, 2026

Environment·Theory & History

Emerald Isle or Island of Wounds? Colonialism, extraction, and extinction in Ireland

Ecosystems in Ireland and across the Earth are in a state of total or near-total collapse. This is not an inevitable result of human activity, but rather a direct result of the capitalist economic system. In this article, OISÍN HILL looks at

May 1, 2026

Environment

Fast fashion destruction & waste

By Ibitola Daniel When it comes to the ‘The Fast Fashion Crisis’, the first thing to dismantle is the notion that it is a select few ultra-fast fashion online retailers who are responsible for the overproduction of clothes. In fact, we have

Apr 29, 2026

Environment·Latest·News & Analysis

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan civilisation. But it doesn’t take an ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to predict the floods which have afflicted Ireland recently,

Feb 6, 2026

Anti-war·Environment·World News

Fighting green imperialism and the threat of fossil fascism

By Philipp Chmel While the world is burning, the rulers of this capitalist hellscape continue to carry out, support and enable the ongoing genocides against the Palestinians — with ever new levels of horror and cruelty — and in Sudan. They sacrifice

Dec 10, 2025

Environment·News & Analysis

“We Can’t Eat Money” – Indigenous resistance and capitalist disregard at COP30

By Lenn Viken As the category five man-made hurricane Melissa swept the shores and lands of Jamaica in late October this year, delegates from countries all over the world were preparing for the UN climate summit COP30, held in Belém, a large

Dec 2, 2025

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·Featured Articles·World News

Scorched earth capitalism: Wildfires bring apocalyptic scenes to Los Angeles

By Isi Stewart Duran At the time of writing, firefighters in Los Angeles are warning of ‘explosive fire growth’ and ‘critical fire weather’ in the city and its surroundings, where at least 27 people have been killed and at least 31 people

Jan 17, 2025

Environment·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Is capitalism destroying the planet?

By Eddie McCabe In the midst of the carnage of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg wrote of the crossroads capitalist society was standing at: “either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” This idea resonates profoundly today. What it means is

Sep 6, 2024

Environment·News & Analysis·The North

Lough Neagh: A case study in how capitalism kills the environment

By Oisín Hill Lough Neagh, Ireland’s largest body of freshwater, and the source of 40% of the North’s drinking water, is set for another year of poisoning by toxic blue-green algae. In summer 2023 a “bloom” of toxic sludge, formed from thick

Jul 25, 2024

Environment·World News

NATO military spending is a war on the climate

By Miranda Stewart At a time when reducing greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever, a recent report makes clear that NATO military spending targets are pushing the world in the opposite direction. The report, ‘Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military

Feb 9, 2024

1 2 3 … 12 Next