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When BaRupOn LLC, a California-based developer, bought land in East Texas for a 700-acre industrial campus in 2023, the company received a warm welcome from the state. The developer set out to build numerous data centers and rare-earth manufacturing facilities at the site, as well as its own power plants. At first, Gov. Greg Abbott’s […]

Global frameworks on chemicals must also reach the family living beside poorly managed waste, the child drinking contaminated water, the young person whose health is harmed by pollution. Africa should not be expected to choose between development and the health of its children.

What happens behind the scenes at an aquarium? Our young author investigates, recounting the harms that were observed. What does captivity mean for wild things? They ask you to think about positive and negative effects on the animals and sea creatures before your next visit to a zoo or aquarium.

The distance between a climate conference and a village can be measured in kilometres. But sometimes the bigger distance is between a decision and the person who has to live with its consequences. If climate justice is about who gets to decide Africa's future, young people must be at the centre.

If peace starts with opportunities, then what kinds of opportunities are needed for young people to develop skills to respond to local needs? Opportunity can build resiliency and peace and hope. Read these reflections that came from attending the Nairobi Youth Skills for Peace conference.

Fossil fuel production continues, planetary oceans and vegetation absorb less CO2, and global warming accelerates, driving disasters and migration. Industrial and political leaders kowtow to fossil giants and heap blame rather than aid onto displaced peoples.

COP17 on Biodiversity is under way right now in Yerevan, Armenia. Is enough being done to reverse biodiversity loss? Also, an official definition of ecocide, apps to feed your curiosity about birdsongs and birds, the world of funga, weather maps from real-time Earth observatories, and more.

This story was originally published by Civil Beat. The Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney is expected to soon have an investigator working full-time on contractor fraud cases targeting survivors of the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire, county officials say. Mayor Richard Bissen asked Maui County Council Chair Alice Lee to introduce legislation to authorize the […]

The Trump administration was dealt its first major defeat in Minneapolis. But this wasn’t foreordained — it happened because the city’s anti-ICE movement was disciplined in response and refused to play into Donald Trump’s hands.

As socialists expand our footprint in Congress, we will need to articulate a distinctive agenda for US foreign policy — a vision different from both the wanton imperialism of MAGA and the feckless imperialism of mainstream liberals.

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter.  Sign up to get it every Friday. The midterm elections are upon us. While most of the country has its eyes on who will control Congress, there’s plenty at stake for clean energy at the bottom of some voters’ ballots, too. Here are five…

Israel imprisoned Khalida Jarrar, a historic leader of the Palestinian left, five times, almost always without charge or trial. She tells Jacobin about how women prisoners copied a library by hand and how Israeli censors never let in Antonio Gramsci.

The Republican Party looks headed for losses in November. But Trumpism will outlast the midterms and even Donald Trump’s own presidency. Defeating it will take a left politics that speaks to working people’s economic pain.

Recent protests in northern Italy draw inspiration from France but also reflect grievances over poverty wages and an out-of-touch government. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s only answer is to demonize the protests, ignoring the discontent behind them.

A proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution on the ballot this November is aimed at cutting property taxes. But the amendment would also affect funding for local governments and the state agencies responsible for flood control and water supply and conservation across this vulnerable, low-lying peninsula. Amendment 3 would raise the homestead property tax exemption, […]

PHOENIX— Koral Casillas’ American Dream was simple: Leave her corporate job to start a local business serving her community.  Five years ago, she did just that. She’s now the co-owner of two local Phoenix businesses—Monsoon Market, a purveyor of local goods, and Strip Mall, a coffee and wine shop. But this summer, Casillas said, she […]

In what might have been his last hearing as chair of Pennsylvania’s House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection committee, long-time Democratic state Rep. Greg Vitali seemed to have little interest in soaking it all in.  During the October hearing, Vitali instead furrowed his brow as he watched a parade of witnesses discussing “roadspreading,” a practice […]

When the only candidate who can stop the far right heads a ticket with bourgeois parties, can the left vote for that ticket without joining the bloc behind it, and where does it draw the line?

An idea from fifty years ago offers solutions to today's economic, technological and environmental crises, writes Adrian Smith

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