Deceleration (Page 3)

Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference

With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property.

By Laura Hayter

/ 13 Nov 2025

Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference

COP30 in Brazil: Five Issues to Watch

“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”

By Grist

/ 13 Nov 2025

New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat

Delaney Nolan’s distinctively American novel Happy Bad asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? An excerpt from the novel and Q&A with author Delaney Nolan explores.

By Frances Madeson

/ 7 Nov 2025

New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat

Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.’s Rise

What can folks in the U.S. learn from the survivors of martial law under a Philippines dictator that caused thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of illegal detentions? Plenty.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Nov 2025

Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.’s Rise

Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for ‘Crime’ of Speaking at Socialism Summit

Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.

By Ashley Smith

/ 6 Nov 2025

Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for ‘Crime’ of Speaking at Socialism Summit

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all seven operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last five years, a new report finds.

By Gaige Davila

/ 6 Nov 2025

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril

As tensions rise over deployment of the military in U.S. cities, increasingly violent ICE arrests by unaccountable masked agents, and persecution of Trump’s political rivals, a photo exhibit and panel discussion reflects on the human impact of a dictator’s rise—and ultimate fall—in the Philippines.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 30 Oct 2025

VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

The City of San Antonio’s planet-warming emissions ticked up in 2023, according to new data released on Monday. That interrupts gains made after adopting a climate action plan in 2019.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Oct 2025

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years

Historian Daniel Wortel-London explains why, looking at the case of New York City—with lessons for San Antonio as we consider public funding streams for Project Marvel.

By Daniel Wortel-London

/ 28 Oct 2025

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests

Advocates are questioning why so many applicants from the flood-ravaged county have not received federal disaster help. Nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.

By Emily Foxhall

/ 24 Oct 2025

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests