Global South nations trapped in raw material extraction must adopt democratic industrial planning with state control over capital and technology to break cycles of dependence and build genuine economic development benefiting their populations.
A UN report warns the world will likely exceed the 1.5°C warming target by 2030, threatening Pacific nations with rising seas. However, rapid fossil fuel phase-out and carbon removal efforts could still limit peak warming to 1.8°C and bring temperatures back below 1.5°C this century.
Israeli authorities have established a working group on sanitation after recognizing that environmental destruction in Gaza—including untreated sewage and contaminated rubble—threatens Israeli public health through shared water systems and coastal ecosystems.
A glacier collapse in the Himalayas triggered a devastating flash flood that killed at least 360 people and left 1,400 missing. Scientists attribute the disaster to unusual heat weakening ice bonds, raising concerns that climate change is destabilizing glaciers worldwide and threatening millions dependent on mountain rivers.
The Trump administration has drastically cut U.S. food assistance funding, with the World Food Program experiencing a 40 percent funding drop in 2025. The reductions have caused severe hunger across impoverished nations, leaving an estimated 266 million people facing crisis-level hunger in 2026.
Wildfires ravaging British Columbia and across the globe expose how white supremacy’s system of displacing consequences onto distant communities and lands has collapsed, as climate change recognizes no borders—yet the same extractive logic continues to define inadequate responses that prioritize growth over ecological limits and leave vulnerable communities least protected.
Fragile states losing Western aid under Trump’s budget cuts must develop self-reliant strategies by leveraging natural resources, diaspora remittances, and regional cooperation while reducing corruption to build sustainable economic growth and state capacity.
UN forecasters warn that El Niño could push 50 million additional people into acute hunger across 45 countries by end of 2025, with Central and South America, the Caribbean, and southern Africa most severely affected.
By Aldo Caliari* – Common Dreams Private creditors’ current power to disrupt sovereign debt resolution has negative ripple effects on our own people in the US, especially the most vulnerable. Amid a succession of financial shocks, the Middle East war being only the most…
Record heat waves across Europe have exceeded 40°C, killing thousands and overwhelming hospitals, with The Economist projecting 12,000 excess deaths. Scientists attribute the crisis to decades of fossil fuel emissions and warn of approaching uninhabitable wet-bulb temperatures in parts of southern Europe.
