As Scientists Sound the Alarm on Climate, a Reason for Hope
When I look at my daughter -- and I know all parents feel this way -- I know I would do anything to keep her healthy and safe. A new report out from the world's climate experts makes it undeniably...
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Climate Change Brings Destructive Pine Beetles North: New York and New Jersey...
Residents of the American West are no stranger to the mountain pine beetle -- a native insect that has been around for thousands of years but, thanks to climate change, has devastated many forests in...
View ArticleWhy Fossil Fuels Are Dirty Politics as Well as Dirty Energy
When the Western Energy Alliance in June invited K-Street mugger Richard Berman to advise them on how to deal with public opposition to oil and gas extraction, Berman's back-alley style can hardly have...
View ArticleBuzz: Say It Ain't So!
Dear Buzz, Don't you just hate it when people reject settled science and mountains of evidence? Oh, wait, I know you do. You once decked a moon landing denialist who was pestering you to swear on a...
View ArticleBreaking Big Oil's Grip
Oil prices have dipped lately. In the short term, that's probably good news (unless you're an oil company or a petrostate). If we look at the big picture, though, it's a lot less relevant. That's...
View ArticlePlaying to Lose: Electing a GOP Majority
"This is just the fire alarm. It is not the fire." -- Climate Scientist David Archer. "Catastrophic global warming is a hoax. That conclusion is supported by the painstaking work of the nation's top...
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A View From a Drone: Massive Tunicate Stranding on Sanibel
Two days after Halloween, puzzled, disappointed tourists trolled the beached of Sanibel Island amidst piles of dead tunicates and pen shells accompanied by a smell that matched the volume of dead and...
View ArticleIPCC's Most Important Finding: We Need A Total Emissions Phase-Out
I woke up this morning in Amsterdam to a front-page headline I never thought I'd see: "By 2100 Emissions Must Go to Zero" (my translation from the original Dutch). Referring to the landmark report of...
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Federal Reserve Policy Keeps Fracking Bubble Afloat and That May Change Soon
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogIn August 2005, the U.S. Congress and then-President George W. Bush blessed the oil and gas industry with a game-changer: the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The Act exempted the...
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Fracking And Toxic Air
A new study, published this week in the journal Environmental Health, identifies potentially hazardous concentrations of air pollutants near some oil and gas operations in five states. The research...
View ArticleRewilding: A Cultural Meme for Rehabilitating Our Hearts
Rewilding is all the rage The notion of "rewilding" is receiving a good deal of attention in books such as George Monbiot's Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life (the original title is...
View ArticleWE ACT for Environmental Justice: "Moms Make Connection on What Makes...
This past March, a gas explosion that leveled two buildings and killed eight people, devastated the East Harlem community in New York City. For a neighborhood already facing environmental challenges,...
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A New New York Aquarium
Hurricane Sandy hit just one day before construction was to begin on a massive new shark exhibit at the WCS New York Aquarium. Before a single backhoe touched the ground, the aquarium campus and most...
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Antibiotics in Our Food: Chemical Warfare We Cannot Win
Given current concern about the Ebola virus, it's surprising that the public isn't more alarmed about "superbugs." Superbugs are infectious bacteria that have mutated to adapt to antibiotics that were...
View ArticleRolling Bombs: Millions of Latinos Live Next Door to a Public Menace, Oil Trains
Juan Parras knows well what it means to live surrounded by rolling bombs, and the frequent sound of the whistling engines pulling more than 100-car trains loaded with oil crude into his community is a...
View ArticleEcological Debt and the Global Footprint Network
In 1992, the term "ecological debt" emerged into the international conversation among ecologists and conservationists, first mentioned in a paper presented by the Instituto de Ecología Política in...
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The Fish That Inspired a Woman to Help Save a Species
Shana Miller was fresh out of college in 1998 when she came face-to-face with one of the fastest fish in the sea. She and her friends battled for three hours to haul a 154-pound bluefin tuna aboard...
View ArticleFalling Oil Prices Reveal America's Fracking Trap -- And Saudi Arabia's...
LONDON -- The end of the shale boom is nigh. The recent plunge in oil prices reveals an economic and geological reality that some brave industry analysts depict, but which power brokers in Washington,...
View ArticleHollywood Stardust and Poison
A movie reaching U.S. theaters this week marks the 30th anniversary of the world's worst industrial accident, in Bhopal, India. U.S. environmentalists say the film should nudge us to demand tighter...
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The Grand Canyon With Rainbows in Hawaii
The Grand Canyon in Arizona is truly spectacular, but if you want to see an incredible canyon with a tropical flair head to what Mark Twain called "the Grand Canyon of the Pacific." Located on the...
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