Environmental Crises
Recent News Links

  • "Global warming to kill off Europe's top ski resorts, says UN", The Independent, December 3, 2003

  • "Global warming to kill off Europe's top ski resorts, says UN", The Independent, December 3, 2003

  • "South American glaciers' big melt: The Patagonia glaciers of Chile and Argentina are melting so fast they are making a significant contribution to sea-level rise, say scientists", BBC, October 17, 2003

  • "Oil and gas running out much faster than expected, says study", The Independent, October 2, 2003

  • "Arctic ice shelf splits: The largest ice shelf in the Arctic has fractured, releasing all the water from the freshwater lake it dammed", BBC, September 23, 2003

  • "Warming warning for Antarctica", The Guardian, September 9, 2003

  • "Kazakhstan's glaciers 'melting fast'", BBC, September 4, 2003

  • "Not just warmer: it's the hottest for 2,000 years", The Guardian, September 1, 2003

  • "American pika doomed as 'first mammal victim of climate change'", The Guardian, August 21, 2003

  • "Global warming may be speeding up, fears scientist", The Guardian, August 6, 2003

  • "'Rainforests of the sea' ravaged: overfishing and pollution kill 80% of coral on Caribbean reefs", The Independent, July 4, 2003

  • "Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit badly by pollution", AFP, July 4, 2003

  • "Extreme weather prompts unprecedented global warming alert", The Independent, July 3, 2003

  • "The great rainforest tragedy", The Independent, June 28, 2003

  • "Violence, bureaucracy hobble Canada's struggling fisheries", Boston Globe, June 21, 2003

  • "World's water supply 'running low'", BBC, June 5, 2003

  • "World's third largest river starts to rise by 400ft to create the Great Wall of Water", The Independent, June 1, 2003

  • "Steep decline seen in large fish", AP, May 15, 2003

  • "Survival of coral reefs seen in human hands", Boston Globe, February 12, 2003

  • "Greenhouse gases 'at record levels'", BBC, February 11, 2003

  • "As earth heats up, critters and plants seen creeping north", Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2003

  • "2002 second warmest on record", Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2002

  • "Record ice loss in Arctic", BBC, December 9, 2002

  • "Extreme weather set to worsen through pollution and El Nino", The Guardian, August 12, 2002

  • "Analysis: A global picture of death, damage and destruction", The Independent, August 2, 2002

  • "Giant carp threat to Great Lakes", The Independent, July 21, 2002

  • "Mountains of ice melt to molehills", The Independent, June 19, 2002

  • "Study finds Alaska glaciers melting at higher rate", CNN, July 19, 2002

  • "'Extinction' claim over North Sea cod", BBC, July 16, 2002

  • "New US sonars 'may harm whales'", BBC, July 16, 2002

  • "Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America have brought the world's worst drought to Africa", The Independent, June 7, 2002

  • "Greenland's warming ice flows faster", BBC, June 7, 2002

  • "Commercial fish farms 'wiping out' wild salmon", The Independent, June 1, 2002
  • Extinctions, Global Warming, Pollution, Emerging Diseases, Etc., Etc. . .
    What's to blame for the Environmental Crises?

    Web Links :
  • Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Symposium: "The Second Contradiction of Capitalism"
  • "Resolution on Socialist Revolution and Ecology" from the 4th International
  • "What is the relationship between capitalism and the ecological crisis?"
  • "What Do Anarchists Think Causes Ecological Problems?"
    Further Reading :
  • John Bellamy Foster, The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1994).
  • James O'Connor, Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (New York: The Guilford Press, 1998).
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