Chris Williams, author of the newly released book Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, describes what led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The Obama administration is promising to crack down on BP, but future catastrophes are certain because of the nature of a system that prioritises profit over the planet.

BP’s cleanup efforts are making the Gulf oil disaster worse, and Washington is playing the blame game while more and more oil spews into the gulf.

Fearful of a right-wing anti-immigrant campaign from the Liberals, Rudd has abandoned his previous public support for population growth.

Maurice Newman, chairman of the ABC, recently argued that the media should give a better hearing to those who doubt the science of global warming.

The nuclear industry continues to claim that nuclear energy is green, safe and necessary for providing for future energy needs. None of this is true.

We hear time and again in the media that Iran cannot be trusted to refine uranium. Recent studies indicate that it’s at least as dangerous to let Australian companies mine the uranium in the first place.

The Liberal Party has been taken over by a bunch of conspiracy theorists and global warming deniers. Yet the Labor government's emissions trading scheme is a fraud, which will only reward big business.

The Copenhagen summit looks set to squeeze developing countries by shifting the costs of moving to a low-carbon future disproportionately onto the countries of the Global South.

Governments of the world are preparing to meet in Copenhagen for the final time before the current Kyoto treaty expires. A momentous historical occasion? Tragically, it is widely expected to be a complete shambles.

In September, the population of Australia cleared 22 million, prompting a debate over immigration, and the supposed devastation it wreaks on the environment.

The tide has definitively turned against the government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). A year ago, many believed Rudd was sincere about tackling climate change, and thought the proposed carbon trading scheme was a step in the right direction.