Environment

Patagonia Forest Fires

Reveal Imperialist Theft of Protected Lands By Aby L. Sène Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Thomas Sankara, once declared at the International Conference on Trees and Forests in Paris in February 1986 that the “struggle to defend the…

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Koch Network Pushes Trump to Accelerate AI

By Geoff Dembicki A political group created by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch earlier this year wrote to the U.S. government making requests about artificial intelligence. “To seize the moment and ensure that AI…



True Climate Justice Demands a Reckoning

with Colonialism By Nciko wa Nciko and Samrawit Gateneh The African Union declared 2025 to be the “Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. The African Court on Human and…


The Kids Who Sued America Aren’t Done Yet

They’re taking their climate case to the next level By Anita Hofschneider In 2015, nearly two dozen American youth sued the federal government, alleging that the United States violated their constitutional rights by facilitating the…


Claiming the Power to Protect

National sovereignty is at the root of the environmental struggle in Brazil By Miguel Enrique Stedile The battle to preserve our environment is intrinsically linked to the defense of our national sovereignty. How our country…


DRC in Flames, Big Oil in Fortune

By Babawale Obayanju The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems and one of the largest carbon sinks left on Earth, second only in size to…


Sand Mining Is a Booming Industry

This Mexican Community Is Paying the Price By Tamara Pearson Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, a Mazatec Indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been defending its river from gravel and sand dredgers for over a decade….


Lessons for Protesters from Standing Rock

The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment Commentary by Emily Atkin During the high-profile demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016, the FBI sent several informants disguised…