« If marine carbon dioxide removal is to make a meaningful contribution to climate mitigation, it must rest on precise measurement and accountability. Governments, regulators and investors will need confidence that reported carbon removal is real and durable – and that marine ecosystems are protected. » We replaced the stove with plywood, turning the kitchen of the dive boat into an impromptu research lab. Plugging in wires and connecting tubing, we assembled a scientific instrument within (…)

The dominant currents of Soviet Russian dissident thought — liberal universalism on one side, religious nationalism on the other — shared a common blind spot: neither integrated the national question into their critique of the system. As the Russian socialist historian Ilya Budraitskis has documented, many left-wing dissident groups, after imprisonment and the end of the Khrushchev Thaw, abandoned socialist and Marxist commitments for nationalism, orthodox Christianity, or liberal rights (…)

Written in Kyiv in March–April 1989, this document is one of the few programmatic texts produced by the Eastern European dissident-socialist tradition that integrates the national question into its class analysis as a structural element rather than a secondary concern. Its author, Yurii Badzio, had spent years in the camps of Mordovia and in exile in Yakutia. He came out of the same intellectual current as Kuroń and Modzelewski in Poland, Petr Uhl in Czechoslovakia, and the workers' (…)