BANGKOK — Ouk Mao, a Cambodian environmental journalist, was reporting on the continued logging of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary when he was attacked on March 24 by a group of men he identified, includ...

Bernie Sanders is back on the road. He's touring the country on an "anti-oligarchy" crusade, warning that billionaires are running the show and that we,

Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s materi...

Die Freie Universität Berlin hat einen Vortrag der UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese abgesagt. Der Freitag dokumentiert einen Aufruf von Wissenschaftsorganisationen und NGOs zur Verteidig...

Brazil's government on Tuesday approved joining OPEC+, a group of major oil-exporting nations, signalling the country's evolution into a major oil state just nine months ahead of hosting the United Na...

Con il ritorno dell’austerità si torna a intervenire sui contratti e sul funzionamento degli atenei in generale. Precarizzazione e accentramento di potere sono forme di governo della scarsità di fondi

Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...

Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis

There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we expl...

La Silla viajó a Caquetá, Meta y Guaviare donde el uso de la tierra son el centro de los diálogos de paz con las disidencias de las Farc.

Emily O’Reilly says she was “never at ease” with members of the president’s cabinet who are “intelligent people” but “not elected.”

While emissions from burning fossil fuels get a lot of attention, surprisingly little is known about the growing quantity of fossil carbon in our buildings and products.

Today, Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, has taken a major step away from oil and gas. Munich Re has committed that as of 1 April 2023 it will no longer invest in or insure contracts/projects ...

European Commission scientific advisers say technology to offset global heating could wreak havoc on weather

As Brussels tries to tackle the migrant crisis, the Italian leader is pressing other nations to re-establish ties with Syria to deal with more than a million people displaced by the Israeli-Hezbollah ...

Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population

After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…

Former history teacher says the ‘horizon is brightening’ as all political rivals pledged to work together to move the country forward

Selbst Menschen, denen Klimaschutz wichtig ist, halten die Uno-Gipfel inzwischen für überflüssig. Die Baku-Konferenz gab ihnen Auftrieb. Doch bei allem Reformbedarf: Sie abzuschaffen, wäre zutiefst an...

As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start.

More than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state, where the fighting began last year, researchers say.

Despite the escalating climate crisis, COP29 won't be discussing military emissions and the outsize role they are playing in the destruction of the planet

By relying on natural carbon sinks such as forests and peatlands to offset emissions, governments can appear closer to goals than they actually are

Last year, Germany’s Foreign Office spelled out guidelines for a “feminist” foreign policy, focused on defending marginalized women. Today in Gaza, this same ministry is arming the deadliest war on wo...

The health of the planet and its people are at risk. The deterioration of the global commons—ie, the natural systems that support life on Earth—is exacerbating energy, food, and water insecurity, and ...

Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...