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Dan Boscov-Ellen interviews Joshua Frank about ecosocialism and the often overlooked costs of the transition to renewable energy.

The Bureau of Land Management is pushing to expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert. Advocates say it would decimate vast biodiversity.

The Bureau of Land Management is pushing to expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert. Advocates say it would decimate vast biodiversity.

LA’s early diversions nearly destroyed Mono Lake, which lost half its volume and dropped 45 feet. Toxic dust began to swirl, and gulls’ nesting grounds disappeared. It wasn’t until the mid-1970s that ...

The UK Green Party’s former leader Caroline Lucas recently nailed the Labor Party for “burying the most explosive report” of the year by UK military and intelligence sources. The concealed report warn...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with journalist and author Tara Lohan about her new book, Undammed: Freeing

If you have a flair for the ostentatious, the Yellowstone Club, the ultra-elite billionaires’ colony in Big Sky, Montana, may be for you. You’ll get to rub shoulders with titans of tech and capital li...

In the first quarter of 2026, China’s emissions grew by 2%, largely due to wasted wind and solar energy. That said, even if China has made alleged gains in fossil fuel emissions, it’s still far from c...

Utah politicians celebrate as the executive pen prepares to slash our monuments this afternoon—while the administration works to erase the history of how they got the land in the first place.

It’s dry, hot, and windy. The dust is swirling. My buddy Colby and I are in the heart of the blazing Mojave to visit California’s most expansive open-pit mine. Owned and operated by the Australian min...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank sit down with Gilbert Achcar to discuss Israel, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and the

We’re in for it. At least that’s the dire warning from scientists about the El Niño conditions now brewing in the Pacific Ocean. What’s actually in store

The first major swell of the year pummeled Southern California this week, and onlookers flocked to ritzy Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach to watch adrenaline junkies attack the Wedge – a mutant wave ...

The road is dusty and trash-strewn. My friend and collaborator Colby Groves is hanging out the car window as I drive, gazing at a patchwork of solar panels lined up behind a chain-link fence. “This ha...

The news alerts were ominous. A chemical tank at an industrial site in Garden Grove, fifteen miles south of where I live, could blow at any moment. A nervous Orange County Fire Captain warned of two p...

Ocean temperatures have been steadily rising. As someone who spends a lot of time in the ocean, I can attest that it has been exceptionally warm this year. And the data backs it up. Surface temperatur...

We often laud China for its boom in renewable energy projects, but seem to ignore the fact that it’s still building coal-fired power plants at a faster pace than any other country. Experts are questio...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg are joined by Thomas Zietzoff to talk about his new book, No Option But Sabotage

Let’s start with the bad. Carbon dioxide levels just hit a new record of 431 parts per million. Some of you may remember that 350 was the safe upper limit for atmospheric carbon. Oh, how times have ch...

Let’s start with the good news. As of 2025, coal is no longer the dominant energy source worldwide. It’s been at the top for over 100 years, but it’s been

Last month, on March 24, Idris Robinson, a philosophy professor at Texas State University, filed a lawsuit against the university for wrongful termination and for violating his right to free speech. T...

On March 13th, buried in the New York Times’s coverage of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict was a headline that would have been easy to miss amid the din of

There has been “no accountability whatsoever for violations of the laws of war,” says researcher Ramzi Kaiss.

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

With nine nuclear-armed nations and roughly 12,000 nuclear warheads on this planet, worries about nuclear war are unavoidable. However, the danger of a nuclear disaster at a seemingly “peaceful” nuclear facility is often ignored.

Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such...

US and Iranian negotiators met in Geneva earlier this week in what mediators described as the most serious and constructive talks in years. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, spoke publicly of “...

The SCOTUS rejection of Trump’s tariffs changes little. The empire's decline persists, and with it, its extension to the US economy as a whole. And it will continue whether or not Trump finds another ...

What do Canada’s retired general Wayne Eyre and Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman share in common? Answer: In their own ways, both have inadvertently warned the public about the deep relationship betwe...

Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I asked her about Trump’s blockade of the island—especially now that the U.S....

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