
Thirty-five years after gaining independence, Belize, Central America’s youngest nation, stands on a cusp of development that will either protect crucial wildlife habitat or gradually lose it to wide-scale agriculture.
For those who thought that corporate concentration in the food industry couldn’t get tighter, wake up and smell the coffee. The Big Six seed and farm chemical producers are now on the verge of coalescing into three. Amazon may soon be the world’s biggest supermarket.
When Heather Majaury left the Ottawa Valley for university after high school, it was the start of a whole new journey. And it wasn’t just about the usual transitions from being a teenager to a young adult. It was the birth of a whole new sense of identity.
Fair trade — as opposed to Free Trade — puts farmers, workers, communities and the health of the planet ahead of national trade balances and corporate profits. Listen to the voices of fair traders gathered in Winnipeg for their national convention.
Imagine an electric-powered fleet of Canada Post vehicles, along with vehicle charging stations at post offices. And postal banking, where loans could be secured for renewable energy installations and home energy retro-fits. Listen up.
I’ve always hung out on the margins, with all the other misfits, freaks and queers; on the edge, the border between femininity and masculinity, between brownness and whiteness, a standpoint that offers me a unique worldview.
Picture a landscape buried beneath a sky-high heap of dead plants and animal corpses. This is what Earth’s surface would look like if it weren’t for fungi. Fungi are the biosphere’s recyclers. Human society depends on them absolutely.
So-called “industrial economies” on Earth value money above all else, while squandering finite resources and poisoning their little blue-green planet.
First in a series of fragmentary voice transmissions from a planet in crisis. Earthlings speak about the place they call home.
Human beings are coming up with all sorts of ingenious ways to walk gently on planet Earth.
Earth is a dynamic planet — continually twisting and turning — as this fragmentary recording testifies.
Palestine has filed action against Israel at the International Criminal Court — a move Washington and its ally have denounced. Do Israel’s occupation, its settlement enterprise and assault on Gaza violate international law?
Another deep dive into the Earth Chronicles audio vault: Tales of Creation & Don’t Ask What a River is For.
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Seven hundred million years ago, Earth’s oceans were frozen solid — so geologists say. In today’s GPM, Canadian geologist Paul Hoffman provides details. And, today, Earth’s oceans are liquid, and taking a walloping. Ocean scientists assess the damage. We speak with one of the coordinators of the Third World Ocean Assessment Report.
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A deep dive into our audio vaults: Earth in Motion — a documentary-voicescape about planet Earth, and how her rocks move.
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At Columbia University, in NYC, students protest against the university’s passionate and uncritical embrace of AI. And, a math professor talks about what AI and math have in common, if anything.
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Smash and Grab: the Trump Administration’s pathway to a borderless empire of impunity — a ‘Homeland Empire’. The GPM speaks with American historian Nikhil Pal Singh.
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Managing Earth’s endangered forests. Voices from the 21st UN Forum on Forests, in NYC.
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