The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the open ocean. Learn more about its location, size, contents and impact here.
China's "Bamboo Replaces Plastic" initiative drives production of eco-friendly bags and tableware made from fast-growing bamboo. These products fully biodegrade in 4–6 months with no microplastic residue, and cut carbon footprints by up to 70% versus their plastic equivalents.
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Depression isn’t just in the head: Scientists find altered genetic activity in white blood cells. This provides evidence that the biological footprints of depression extend well beyond the brain and into the immune system, offering a whole-body perspective on the condition
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The Earth will survive capitalism. The question is which forms of life—and whose lives—will survive on it.
The very phrase “saving the planet” is far from innocent. It preserves modernity’s old sovereign fantasy: a human subject invested with a mission of salvation, standing above a nature reduced to a passive object of protection.
Our task has never been to save an external Other, but to transform the social order that is making the Earth a hell for the living.
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Sunlight against the blockade: China and Cuba’s solar revolution
China has delivered a second consignment of 5,000 photovoltaic systems to Cuba, destined for rural communities, health centres, day nurseries and bank branches – the latest instalment in what has become one of the fastest energy transitions anywhere in the world. With Chinese equipment, finance and technical support, Cuba has installed around 1,000 MW of … Continue reading Sunlight against the blockade: China and Cuba’s solar revolution
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World’s largest carbon removal plant to open at the end of 2026. It will use power, heat, fans and carbon-dioxide-absorbing materials to suck up to 500,000 metric tons of climate pollution a year from the sky.
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Excerpt from the article: The links between environmental issues and (actually existing) socialism are complex. Socialism has sometimes been described as necessarily destructive to the environment. And one can find examples of this across the history of socialist movements and states. But there have also been convergences, examples of socialism working together with the protection of the environment.
One example of both the contradictions and unity of socialism and environmental concerns is the USSR. As John Bellamy Foster writes:
“From an ecological perspective, the USSR can be seen as a society that generated some of the worst ecological catastrophes in history but that also gave birth to some of the most profound ecological ideas and practices, based on materialist, dialectical, and socialist intellectual foundations.”[2]
There is on the one hand, the predominance of Lysenko’s [Soviet biologist who rejected genetics as bourgeois, KP] pseudoscientific thought, based on a dogmatic reading of Engels’ Dialectics of Nature, the draining of the Aral Sea, and there is on the other hand, the zapodedniki [state nature reserves in the USSR, KP], zones “of relatively pristine nature, set apart for scientific research”,[3] the Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature, which tried to restore forests “as a grand attempt to reverse anthropogenic regional climate change in deforested areas”[4], and a great number of ecological thinkers from early to late soviet ecology.
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Producing food while restoring biodiversity: Study highlights the potential of agriwilding
Agriculture and biodiversity restoration do not have to be at odds. A new study by the WILD research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and UCLouvain, published in the journal Biological Conservation, demonstrates that agriwilding—a form of nature-inclusive farming—can successfully combine food production with biodiversity restoration.
The Chinese Communist Party, once famous for pillaging from the natural world, has set to protecting parts of it. But the country’s “eco-authoritarian” approach deserves scrutiny
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Millions of People in Pakistan Got Tired of Blackouts and Built the World's Fastest Rooftop Solar Boom, Making Solar the Country's Largest Source of Electricity
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