The rapid expansion of data centers across the United States, driven by the AI and crypto boom, presents one of the biggest environmental and social challenges of our generation. They are exponentiall...

AI's Environmental Footprint

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

Ashley Dawson thinks about the future through Nicholas Beuret’s “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” and Thea Riofrancos’s “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism...

More rooftop solar, green schools, better mass transit, new investments in coastal resiliency, and so much more are now possible.

Washington, DC — With details emerging of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) latest campaign, “Operation At Large,” Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director of Detention Watch Network issued the...

Scotland used to be a petrostate, heavily dependent on revenues from North Sea oil. Yet now it generates over 100% of its overall energy consumption from renewable power. It is home to the world's fir...

Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.

From price gouging to risky developing to insurance dysfunction, the dynamics of private housing markets are making the Los Angeles fire disaster considerably worse. We don’t need to prioritize real e...

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To avoid intensifying the current climate collapse, we need a massive and rapid buildout of renewable energy. But where will the money for this energy transition come from? Are existing programs like ...

I always loved what my wedding ring represents, until I learned that making it generated at least 20 tonnes of waste on its journey from the earth to my finger

The following is an excerpt from Environmentalism from Below. The assertion of a right to move is a central element of movements for environmentalism from

Selective engagement will replace liberal internationalism.

Why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are employing to halt climate change are failing—and what we could be doing instead.

To avoid intensifying the current climate collapse, we need a massive and rapid buildout of renewable energy. But where will the money for this energy transition come from? Are existing programs like ...

The Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) brings the grassroots food and farming movement together around agroecology and food sovereignty every January.

We explore the responses to the killings of Jordan Neely and Brian Thompson as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contending in our society today.

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Ashley Dawson about his new book, Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for O...

The state is due to unveil a “cap and invest” program — its biggest effort yet to fund climate initiatives. But fears about hiking prices may limit its…

What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities. More than a year into...

Lithium mining in Serbia pits locals against corporate giants like Rio Tinto and the EU’s green ambitions. With water supplies at stake and authoritarian tactics on the rise, the conflict in the Jadar...

Google recently announced that it has ordered 6 or 7 small nuclear power plants to provide electricity for its data centers. What are we to make of this apparent revival of interest in the nuclear ind...