Ian Angus's Blog

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025

Plastics, forever chemicals and more: four books examine the poisoning of the biosphere

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Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions

700% increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires, not deforestation

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Has the Anthropocene Been Cancelled?

Ian Angus anaylses the controversial decision not to recognize a radical change in the Earth System

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‘Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways’

Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns 'carbon offset' schemes that steal forests

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Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season

Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season

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Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises

Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions

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Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed

Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050

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Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme

Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water

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Who is responsible for heat that kills?

New study identifies corporate culprits in deaths from rise in extreme heat waves

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60% of Earth’s land area is now out of the safe operating zone

Structural changes have pushed a majority of land ecosystems into precarious conditions

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