in 57 German Cities By Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting…
Ecological Restoration By Josephine Woolington In 2000, Sam Lea converted his once-productive Willamette Valley onion field back into wetlands. The third-generation Oregon farmer excavated several ponds and largely left the land alone. Soon, willows arrived…
The world isn’t ready yet to meet people’s changing needs By Julie Watson TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)—Worsening climate largely from the burning of coal and gas is uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in…
By Jason Hickel We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to…
By Lisa Sorg It took nearly two hours for dozens of opponents of a proposed liquified natural gas plant in Person County to explain how the project—aspects of which have been crafted in secret—would harm…
By Dan Gearino Natural gas may be on the way out in Massachusetts. State utility regulators on December 6 issued a sweeping ruling that sets a framework for reducing the use of gas for heating…
Extreme Heat Labor Laws By Anne Blythe As the sun dipped toward the horizon, pulling the last streaks of daylight from the sky over North Carolina’s capital city, dozens of migrant workers raised flickering tealights….
By Keith Brower Brown EDITOR’S NOTE: On November 20, UAW ratified new contracts at Ford, Stellantis and General Motors. The six-week UAW simultaneous “Stand Up Strike” won substantial gains such as cost of living adjustment,…
By Ellen Isaacs At least 75,000 marched in New York City on September 17, quite impressive, inspiring to be a part of. As compared to previous marches, last seen pre-Covid, there were more people of…
The media aren’t telling the whole story By Jonathan Cook The reality of the West’s trademark current foreign policy – marketed for the past two decades under the principle of a “Responsibility to Protect” –…