The floods of 2022 that swallowed one-third of Pakistan laid bare a harsh reality. Now in 2025, another monsoon has turned catastrophe into deja vu. Just this August, more than one million people have ...

Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, coined the term in a new report on the climate crisis and its impacts on human rights and democracy. “Even if current targets are met, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has for decades ignored its responsibility to enforce civil rights laws, as I argued last year in a First Opinion essay. Doing nothing to protect ...

On a congressional delegation last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was photographed grinning, arm in arm with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer pledged that the United ...

Publications continue to report on the “dangerous” and “unprecedented” heatwave sweeping central Europe. The Financial Times reports that the forecasted heat has triggered public warnings in France, ...

The world is facing a “climate apartheid” between the rich who can protect themselves and the poor who are left behind, the UN has warned. A new report published on Tuesday estimated that more than ...

Not that long ago, Desmond Tutu, who played a key role in the Truth and Reconciliation Process in South Africa, offered us a definition of climate apartheid: Those who contributed least to the climate ...

Share this page on Twitter Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Email Share this page on Print This week marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Nelson Mandela. His activism against ...

AXA invests hundreds of millions of dollars in fossil fuels, insures polluting businesses, and invests $91 million in Israel’s weapons and its expanding settlements, which destroy the environment. The ...

As climate collapse accelerates, the world faces intensifying droughts, wildfires, floods, and resource conflicts. Yet, rather than address the root cause—namely, capitalist overproduction and ...