How a few giant companies came to dominate global food
How do agricultural monopolies create higher food prices? Is market concentration at breaking point for seeds, agrichemicals and farm tech? Jennifer Clapp explains.
Ecocide in Ukraine, and the meanings of bread
Darya Tsymbaluk explores how Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s land and agriculture also target the nation’s cultural identity.
Big Tech’s green promises are hypocritical gestures
Carbon offsets mean little while tech companies enable high-intensity consumption and fossil fuel investment, say Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni, in an excerpt from their new book.
Après moi, le deluge: how a fight over garbage challenged China’s growth model
Ma Tianjie explores how public resistance challenged waste management policies in China as overconsumption pushed pollution to the margins.
Mining boom in the Philippines threatens environmental defenders
Since 2010 the country has lost forest cover three times the size of New York City in mining zones for critical minerals, stripping away the country’s resilience to climate-related catastrophes, including typhoons and floods.
Privatising space will make emissions soar
Space travel comes with atmospheric risks – and if corporations take over the world beyond our orbit, who will regulate extraterrestrial waste and mining?
Courts must not depoliticise climate protest
The criminalisation and repression of protest serves as a substitute for taking adequate climate action, says Dr Berglund of University of Bristol.
Notes from a disappearing island
A small US town will soon be submerged by rising sea levels, but its residents’ views have been mocked and dismissed on national TV. In an extract from her new book, Anne Helen Toomey explores failings in climate communication.
Destroying nature will aways be profitable
In an extract from his new book, Ståle Holgersen questions the idea that climate change presents an economic threat, arguing that capitalism is flexible enough to make money from both destroying and saving the planet – all at the same time.
Sugar cane is eroding Colombian biodiversity
Biofuels are the latest driver of plantation monocultures eroding biodiversity and Afro-Colombian culture in the Cauca Valley, says María Arango, following a new report.
