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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·World News

Climate catastrophe demands a revolutionary struggle for democratic socialism

By Arne Johansson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna — ISA in Sweden The pitiful outcome of the Glasgow climate summit, COP26, has been greeted with anger and frustration by the world’s climate activists. Completely inadequate and ineffective market solutions mean a continued rapidly shrinking “carbon

Dec 28, 2021

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

A Socialist Climate Action Plan — For a World on Fire

Introduction We face the biggest threat to humanity in history. It is beyond all doubt, as reaffirmed by the latest IPCC report, that we are in the throes of a devastating existential climate and ecological crisis, caused by human activity — or

Dec 3, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis·The North

‘Blah, Blah Blah’ from Stormont on the climate crisis

“Blah, blah, blah” is how Greta Thunberg has described what we get from politicians across the world. This is strikingly seen at the COP26 climate conference where world leaders “lobbied” to water down reports which expose the urgency of the climate crisis.

Nov 17, 2021

Environment·World News

Greenwashing at COP26

By Per Olsson, ISA Sweden The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is a “global greenwash festival and a failure”, said Greta Thunberg when she spoke at the “Fridays For Future” event in Glasgow on 5 November. That demonstration was followed the next

Nov 12, 2021

Environment·World News

How bad is It? The acute threat from climate crisis

By Jonas Brannberg and Blythe Serrano, Members of the ISA from Sweden and United States In the two years after the great global climate strikes of 2019, Covid-19 has overshadowed the climate catastrophe facing the planet. Yet the coronavirus is in itself

Nov 2, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis

Full throttle towards climate catastrophe under capitalism

By Ben Samson Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are now 50% higher than at the onset of capitalist industry in the 1800s. Without urgent action, it will be 100% higher by 2060. At this point, the latest IPCC report predicts that

Oct 27, 2021

Environment·World News

Climate crisis: The implications of Hurricane Ida

By Jesse Shussett, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Imagine it’s 90 degrees outside, your wall-to-wall carpet is fully soaked in floodwater and it’s starting to mold. Your power is out so you have no air conditioning, not even

Sep 22, 2021

Environment·Uncategorized

Famine in Madagascar: Caused by climate change & capitalism

By Lucy Marron Madagascar is on the brink of the first famine in modern history to be driven by climate change according to experts. Over one million people on the island nation are currently experiencing severe food insecurity, with at least 30,000

Sep 16, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis·World News

Gulf stream slowdown shows need to end climate change & capitalism

By Haritha Olaganathan The Gulf stream’s warmth stretches from the tip of Florida northwards along the US East Coast. It is one of many currents in the thermohaline, or Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), an essential system credited for the hospitality of

Aug 21, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis

Climate change debate: The ‘overpopulation’ myth

By Manus Lenihan The latest report on climate change has been released to the accompaniment of terrible fires and floods around the world. It contains the most urgent warnings to date concerning the scale of the disaster we face. Yet there’s a

Aug 20, 2021

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