Hurricane Sandy hit eastern Jamaica directly, causing severe damage to crops and public infrastructure, but the IMF won’t give up its insistence on austerity measures.
Haiti suffered the worst damage of the Caribbean nations that Sandy affected, even though the storm’s center never passed over the country.
Media bloviators argue about whether superstorm Sandy was "caused by" climate change, oblivious to the obvious reality: such extreme weather events are climate change!
"Mandatory evacuation" set a dangerous precedent for executive power and displacement of the poor—but will the "Frankenstorm" at least be a climate-change wake-up call?
Mexican drug cartels that use cattle ranching to launder narco-profits as well as Chinese-backed illegal timber gangs are eating into Guatemala's vast Maya Biosphere Reserve.
President Evo Morales signed a new "Law of Mother Earth" that extends the agrarian reform, bans GMOs, and establishes a Climate Justice Fund to remediate impacted lands.
Arctic sea ice cover this month fell to the lowest summer minimum extent since satellite records began in 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of the Alaskan village of Kivalina's claims against energy companies for greenhouse emissions it says threaten its existence.
Both parties represent global empire and corporate rule. But it is also clear that this election is turning into a referendum on whether the USA should be a white republic.
Romney’s new energy plan is billed as a drive towards “energy independence”—yet ironically mirrors the plan Obama unveiled two years ago to lift current restrictions on offshore drilling.
Islamophobes are portraying the outburst of ethnic violence in Kenya's Tana River Valley as part of a global jihad—ignoring the ecological roots of the conflict related to climate change.
From Richmond, Calif., to the Gulf Coast, to the Niger Delta to the Ecuadoran Amazon—how many more disasters until a public seizure of the oil industry is finally at least broached?
