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Eradicate Pit Bulls? Not Labrador Retrievers?
When you take up the cause of the so-called pit bull, you make a lot of charming friends. Particularly fetching is the person on Twitter who calls herself "Eradicate Pits." Ms. Eradicate has targeted...
View ArticleThrowing a Wrench in the Climate Denial Machine
The retina of any sighted person can detect a flicker of flame or the glow of a TV screen. But when light rises above 780 nanometers or falls below 380 nm along the electromagnetic spectrum, it becomes...
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Climate Change This Week: Packing Record Heat, Fracking Leaks and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, June 28 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleFish Are Smart (And Of Course They Feel Pain!): An Interview With Dr. Culum...
Last week, the esteemed journal Animal Cognition published a review paper on fish that concludes, "fish perception and cognitive abilities often match or exceed other vertebrates." In fact, says fish...
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Reversing Genesis: The Ransacking of Temple Earth
Credit: Stephane Vetter And God saw everything that He had made: and behold, it was very good.--Genesis 1:31 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and...
View ArticleThe Joys and Perils of Post-50 Pet Adoption
If the fellas had been human infants, no one would have offered me one, much less suggest that I take two. And the guys did not come with warning labels. And my memory isn't necessarily what it used to...
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8 Tips to Handle the Dog Days of Summer in a Warming Climate
As much as I'm looking forward to the long July 4th weekend, there are some things about this season I don't enjoy: the excessive heat, the smog, the bugs -- and sometimes when you head to the beach to...
View ArticleGame On
This summer marks a landmark in the battle against climate change. From now until October 12th, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) will take comments on a plan that calls for an overall 30...
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Oil's New Manifest Destiny Stalks the Great Plains of North Dakota
The maps. It was initially all about the maps. But it is geography that unites and divides. As we began our journey with Honor the Earth to check out the proposed route of the Enbridge Sandpiper...
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Blue Whales, Collateral Damage, and the U.S. Navy's Avoidable War on Whales
Today is the publication date for Joshua Horwitz' War of the Whales, a true story brilliantly told about the U.S. Navy's decades-long war on whales and other marine mammals by its reckless use of high...
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Meme With Wings: Are Western Anti-Fracking Activists Funded by Putin's Russia?
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogAt a June 19 speaking event at London's Chatham House, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen claimed the Russian government is...
View ArticleRed, White, and Renewable
According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has an energy grid in transition. While uncertainty remains concerning the continuation of the federal tax subsidy programs for renewable...
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Three Reasons to Forgo Your Favorite 4th Foods: Franklin the Pig, Emmett the...
Grocery stores are jammed with people planning for July 4th. Packages of hot dogs, chicken and steaks are piled into carts. People chat. "I've got 36 people coming, and they love to eat!" a bulky woman...
View ArticleCatholic University's Divestment Decision A Call to Action on Climate and...
The University of Dayton recently announced it will begin taking steps to divest from major coal and fossil fuel companies. This action follows a new investment policy recently approved unanimously by...
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The Roadmap to Stopping Animal Cruelty
Most of us find acts of animal abuse so shocking and horrific that the thought alone makes us wince. But most is not all, and judging by recent acts of deliberate, depraved cruelty in our own backyard,...
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Brown Is the New Green in California's Drought
I was at a skate park in San Jose last week after my son pleaded with me to take him. As he and a friend put on their knee and elbow guards, I began to set myself up to work under an umbrella -- when a...
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'Green News Report' - July 1, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Big Coal baron says Obama's 'evil', attacks wildly popular new EPA emissions standards; CNBC busted seeking climate change...
View ArticleThorium
There is an extraordinary push by certain individuals to extol the wonders of thorium-fueled nuclear reactors. In fact, so concerted is this push that some blame me for preventing the ongoing expansion...
View ArticleCold War, Ruthless Power, and Toxic Agriculture
Aside from giving us cancer and other diseases, pesticides are responsible for another assault on the fabric of our civilization -- the poisoning of the natural world. For several decades, the top gun...
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America's Great Undiscovered Wilderness
Co-authored with John Ruskey, founder of the Quapaw Canoe Company Most know the Mississippi River as the powerful, coffee-colored waterway that cuts through the center of America, or as the stomping...
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