Environment

Study: End World Bank Support for Factory Farming

Alessandro Ramazzotti / DeSmog Nov 15, 2024 The international lending giant is funding high-rise “hog hotels” but not investing in sustainable agriculture. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Asia Pacific

Fossil Fuels Make Every Breath People Take in Asia Deadly

Bill McKibben / Common Dreams Sep 7, 2023 New data last week from University of Chicago researchers showed that across South Asia, air pollution—mostly from burning fossil fuels—is robbing people of five years of life on average. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Original

Can the World Bank’s New CEO Change Their Toxic Lending Practices?

Jared Olson / Truthdig Sep 6, 2023 Ajay Banga and the façade of accountability in global development finance. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

World

Can China Broker Peace in Ukraine?

Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Jun 14, 2023 Brokering war in Ukraine will not only help stabilize the world, it would help China further its rise to global power. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Cap and Trade Can’t Be the Answer to Climate Change

Lisa Song / ProPublica Nov 15, 2019 A new report find that it's as susceptible to lobbying as any other legislation, with pollution up in California since it took effect. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

How Mining Corporations Plunder the Global South

By Nate Singham / Independent Media Institute Jun 7, 2019 The process of corporate plunder in the global mining industry is severely aggravating social and economic inequalities across the planet. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Financial Secret Behind Germany’s Green Energy Revolution

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Jan 24, 2019 It leads the way among several countries running circles around the U.S. in infrastructure development, which all have one thing in common. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

World Bank Expects 140 Million Climate Refugees by 2050

Alex Kirby / Climate News Network Mar 21, 2018 The estimate is a conservative one, based on just three regions of the developing world, and considers only people migrating within their own countries, not those seeking a new life abroad. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Palestinian Prime Minister Escapes Injury in Gaza Bombing

FARES AKRAM / The Associated Press Mar 13, 2018 The incident throws an already troubled reconciliation process between the Fatah party and Hamas into deeper turmoil. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Capitalism: The Nightmare

Paul Street / Truthdig Sep 20, 2017 As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future." Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Female Equality Is Key to a Sustainable Future

H. Patricia Hynes / Truthdig Aug 29, 2017 Missing from many conversations about the impact of global warming is an understanding of how women in particular are affected. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

The World Bank and the IMF Are Enabling the Next Crisis

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 10, 2016 A fresh global economic disaster is brewing, and the authors of world financial policy don't acknowledge their role in creating it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )