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Transforming Deserts Into Farmland
By Don WilllmottDon Willmott is a New York-based journalist who writes about technology, travel, and the environment for a wide variety of publications and websites. The prophet Isaiah once promised...
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Saving California Parks - With New Ideas and Tech
SAN FRANCISCO - Standing on the corner of Mission and 16th Street, a mixed neighborhood of yuppies and Latino working class, Carlos Lopez, 19, said he's heard of Mount Tamalpais State Park. But he...
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When Senators Sabotage Science
Senator Jim Inhofe, who infamously claimed in 2012 that the Bible refutes climate change, was recently given a committee gavel in the newly Republican-controlled Senate. Showing himself to be almost...
View ArticleCourt Ruling Means Cleaner Air for Millions of Americans
This week, we secured an important victory for public health when a federal court approved a timeline and framework for protecting Americans from an especially harmful type of air pollution. Sulfur...
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Carbon Shock: How Global Warming Is Changing the Cost of Everything
Hurricanes. Droughts. Forest fires. Melting glaciers. Man made or acts of God? There are two types of climate change deniers. The first, motivated by commercial or ideological reasons, is a mentality...
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Beware of Those Climate Polls
Insofar as the prospective candidates for President of the United States pay attention to public opinion research, they should be careful about interpreting the polls on global climate change. They...
View ArticleGMO Pesticide Propaganda Machine Continues to Bamboozle
Media Silence Deafening as 2,4 D Herbicide-Tolerant GMO Crops Cleared for Planting in UN's "International Year of Soils" The recent February 13th issue of Science magazine opens with an editorial...
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Myth: Positive Training Is Permissive
This is a common myth about positive reinforcement training. One of the biggest criticisms circulated about positive reinforcement training (besides the misconception that dogs should work for praise...
View ArticleHey Derick Dillard, Here's The Perfect Way You Can Make Up for Trying to Hit...
Derick Dillard, husband of 19 Kids and Counting daughter Jill Duggard, has something of a PR cat-astrophy on his hands. Dillard posted a gross video to Instagram last weekend. It shows him apparently...
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A Taste of Spring by the Adriatic Sea
Porto San Giorgio, Marche, Italy, The Adriatic Sea Last week was like spring in Italy! I was able to enjoy long, relaxing walks by the seashore. The early afternoon sun was balmy. Tiny waves rolled in...
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Flooding Google: Google's New Headquarters and the Threat of Sea-Level Rise
Google has just released a video and story about plans for a new "futuristic" headquarters at their Mountain View, California location. As described in an article in the Guardian, Googlers can look...
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Protecting All the Victims of Domestic Violence
In America, one out of four women experiences domestic violence in her lifetime, and a woman is abused every nine seconds. Many of these women survive by courageously leaving their homes and finding...
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Documents Reveal EPA's National Fracking Study Halted by Industry Pressure
Fracking companies had extensive influence over a critical study of the groundwater impacts from fracking, according to insider documents released by Greenpeace. In 2010, amidst growing worries about...
View ArticleTwo Huge Stories on Fracking You Probably Missed This Week
It seems that the fracking industry's biggest concern is keeping their operations secret. Whether they're talking about the chemicals in their frac fluid, how they pay (or don't pay) royalties to...
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Iowa GOP Lawmaker: Rick Perry's Involvement With Bakken Fracked Oil Pipeline...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogBy David Goodner and Steve Horn Everyday Iowa voters are less likely to caucus for former Texas governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry "because of his...
View ArticleFar Flung, But Never Far Afield
When you run an organization that fixes rivers, you can find your office in some pretty exotic locations. In the last year, I've been on water in Patagonia, checked out watershed dynamics in Costa...
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Helmeted Hornbills on the Verge of Extinction
From the majestic elephants in Africa to the tigers in South East Asia, much has been said about the mass extinctions of life on earth due to human activities. Many of these are expected to come from...
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A Lifeline for Disappearing Cod
Cod were once so abundant in the Gulf of Maine that they propped up many of New England's coastal economies. Those financial boons, though, came with a heavy price. Gulf of Maine cod have declined 90...
View ArticleClimate Change Action? It's Not The Data That's Missing, It's Our Ability To...
As the climate change debate continues, in communities all over the world, we must ask ourselves the very serious question: what could possibly account for so much denial and lack of action at all...
View ArticleA Berlin Wall Moment for Animal Protection
It's surely one of the biggest announcements of the modern era in animal protection: Ringling Bros. has announced that it will cease its use of elephants in its traveling circus. I've been a witness to...
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