🌲 Ecology

Botanist Joey Santore critiques North American landscapes shaped by suburban sprawl, renter economies, and corporate greed, advocating for native plants, community green spaces, and a deeper human connection to ecology.

Joey Santore discusses conservationism, native plants, and building a closer relationship with the living world, critiquing modern American landscaping for its ecological and spiritual disconnection.

Madonna Thunder Hawk, a great grandmother living on her reservation, and Lilias Jarding, who stopped two dozen uranium corporations with Black Hills Alliance, discuss Craven Canyon's cultural sites and the halted state permit hearing over missing Lakota translators.

Madonna Thunder Hawk, an Oohenumpa Lakota and longtime Indigenous organizer, and Lilias Jarding, Executive Director of the Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, have organized resistance to mining threats since the 1970s; current threats include Craven Canyon, the Dewey-Burdock uranium project.

A conversation about facing climate collapse without despair, focusing on how to inspire action by linking ecological crisis, capitalism, and colonialism while promoting a post-capitalist vision.

A discussion on discussing climate catastrophe constructively to spur action, highlighting looming state collapses and wars while urging a hopeful yet realistic approach to avert apocalypse.

Nuclear war and climate catastrophe form one civilizational threat driven by capitalism's demand for endless growth, as isotope evidence traces rising CO2 to fossil fuels and nuclear winter physics show soot collapsing food production.

Soot from even a regional nuclear war could block sunlight and collapse global food production for years, while isotope evidence traces rising CO2 directly to fossil fuels; both threats stem from capitalism's demand for endless growth.

The new Solomon Islands government rebuffs US and Australian pressure by reaffirming its one-China commitment, asserting that Pacific nations are sovereign states entitled to choose development partners free from geopolitical interference.

The Yangtze's fish biomass surged over 200% after China's fishing ban and restoration efforts, yet The Economist dismissed the success as sinister 'eco-authoritarianism,' exposing a worldview hostile to socialist ecological achievement.

During the ASEAN Regional Forum, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged new UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband to uphold the one-China principle and avoid securitizing trade amid tensions over the Scunthorpe steel plant expropriation.

China and Ethiopia collaborate on AI-powered weather forecasting, deploying the MAZU early warning system to issue real-time alerts for droughts and floods, with Ethiopian experts trained to operate the technology independently.

Nick Estes analyzes the Trump administration's anti-communist rhetoric as a distraction from capitalist failures and geopolitical overreach.

Nick Estes debunks the Trump administration's fabricated communist threat, linking anti-communist hysteria to anti-Indigenous racism and US-China economic rivalry.

Structural engineer Hideki Miyamoto ranks Venezuela's earthquakes among the world's most complex disasters, praising the government's response and outlining plans for engineering training and resilient reconstruction.

Venezuela enforces strict penalties against illegal marine waste dumping during post-earthquake cleanup, countering disinformation campaigns.