"We're traveling at high speed down a mountain in a car coming up to a hairpin turn, and it's not so much a question of whether we hit the guard rail as to whether we can slow down enough, s… Read More

The authors conclude that ecocentrism is essential for solving our unprecedented environmental crisis, arguing its importance from four perspectives: ethical, evolutionary, spiritual and eco… Read More

"Hope for the best, but plan for the worst." Continue reading → Read More

Zero Arctic sea ice will have traumatic effects on weather. Continue reading → Read More

Today, T. S. Eliot’s Hollow Men could end “Not with a whimper but a bang.” Continue reading → Read More

But no matter how well-informed you are, you are surely not alarmed enough. Over the past decades, our culture has gone apocalyptic with zombie movies and Mad Max dystopias, perhaps the coll… Read More

GR: Destroying a nature refuge to satisfy a campaign promise is probably more than Trump’s fellow phobes wanted. But there is no limit to the damage Trump will do to get some approval… Read More

Rooftop solar panels are the best source of renewable energy. Apart from their manufacture, the panels are non polluting. As important, they remove energy production from the hands of a few… Read More

"Battles to protect wildlife are intensifying in the face of attacks from these and other lawmakers. However, they may be in for a bigger fight than they realize. A recent poll showed t… Read More

GR: Here’s a list of some of the critical global concerns for the week. Posted by Christina MacPherson. It’s a toss-up as to which issue is now the most critical – climate… Read More

Let me be clear, honest, and take a risk of offending: there is no nutrition in the flesh or fluids of animals that can not be gotten from where the animal got it – the sun and the ear… Read More

Franken has emerged as a true climate champion, fighting back against the misinformation and outright climate science denial spread by the Trump administration Continue reading → Read More

GR:  Monsanto is facing enormous financial penalties for their continued production and sale of toxic chemicals. This post (and earlier stories) discusses PCBs. Other reports describe s… Read More

Tanzania lost 60 percent of its elephants to the ivory trade between 2009 and 2014. Continue reading → Read More

If we’re interested in signs of impending global crisis, there’s no need to stop with just these two global challenges [climate related]. The world is losing 25 billion tons of t… Read More

Stock your neurons with useful information. Continue reading → Read More

GR: The article below illustrates the value of scientific analysis. The Southwest Monsoon has always caused flooding. However, memory alone is an unreliable indicator of changes in storm str… Read More

Humans have cut and burned forests for thousands of years. The delightfully moderate environments created by forests, the opposite of urban heat islands or the monotony of farms, are disappe… Read More

"If we stop emitting today, it's not the end of the story for global warming. There's a delay in air-temperature increase as the atmosphere catches up with all the heat that the earth has ac… Read More

Our grandchildren will probably see the last of the wild apes, elephants, giraffes, lions, and tigers. We humans are eliminating Earth's wild animals. Though some of us might feel remorse, m… Read More

Protecting nature is a critical issue understood by some politicians. Continue reading → Read More

By 1988, the new report says, the Electric Power Research Institute, supported by the energy industry, acknowledged "a growing consensus in the scientific community that the greenhouse effec… Read More

Hope for the best; plan for the worst. Continue reading → Read More

Birds of Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, by Garry Rogers, has been selected to receive the Literary Classics Seal of Approval. Continue reading → Read More

“Among those who understand the systemic nature of our problems, the controlled crash option is the subject of what may be the most interesting and important conversation that’s… Read More

"With this additional scientific evidence of the harm seismic does at an ecosystem level, it is clearer than ever that the proposed permits for blasting along the Atlantic coast—from t… Read More

The study examines every corner of the United States and finds that all of it was touched by climate change. The average annual temperature in the United States will continue to rise, the au… Read More

Originally posted on Antinuclear: 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 73… Read More

Show how you feel about our national monuments. Send a comment to Ryan Zinke. Continue reading → Read More

A two degree temperature rise doesn't sound like much, but it will have terrible consequences. Continue reading → Read More

GR: Today is the day to help save internet freedom.  Please send your letter now. Comcast, Verizon and AT&T want to end net neutrality so they can charge extra fees to control… Read More

The Future of Human Understanding of Nature If we come through global warming, overpopulation, and overuse of the Earth, our experience will have reforged our view of the world. I think we w… Read More

To save coastal cities we have to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% and start annual withdrawals of trillions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere --- before 2050. Continue reading → Read More

Renters and homeowners, here's an opportunity to switch all your electrical energy to renewable sources. Continue reading → Read More

"The Associated Press reported in April that Dow is pressuring the Trump administration to throw out a 10,000-page government risk study on three pesticides under review, including chlorpyri… Read More

Across the western U. S. and other drying regions, trees are dying. Human-caused climate change with fire as its agent, is sweeping away the forests and shrublands. Fire-prone weeds are taki… Read More

"That point of no return has now arrived, and it is staring us in the face. If people fully understood how and why their families face a ruined world by mid-century, they would be demanding… Read More

If you think that 25+ years of global climate change policy meetings (IPCCs & COPs), and today's much discussed growth in clean energy and efficiency are reducing global fossil fuel usag… Read More

Most of Earth's beautiful forests, natural grasslands, and countless wild animals and plants will not survive. Continue reading → Read More

Should climate scientists soften their warnings or should they make full disclosure of the truth about the climate-change emergency on our doorstep? Continue reading → Read More

"These seven monuments represent the best of California’s wildlife and wild places and are broadly supported. Mirroring the strong public support for continued protection of these monu… Read More

"Explore the signs of global warming on this map or Google Earth. The evidence of climate change includes heat waves, sea-level rise, flooding, melting glaciers, earlier spring arrival, cora… Read More

Almost no one in academia, government, or society is responding as if they believe there is a GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY. Continue reading → Read More

"Forests are interwoven with human evolution," stated Dr. Rachel Smolker, Co-Director of Biofuelwatch and Steering Committee member of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. "They regulate and stabi… Read More

Become an investigative reporter. Read the Poison Papers. Continue reading → Read More

Alaska, Colorado and New Mexico have all been involved in controversial energy development and natural resource issues in the past few years, and sources say Interior brass do not view the t… Read More

Human forced climate change is happening much faster than predicted. Sea-level rise is discussed in this post. Continue reading → Read More

GR: The name is acceptable since there will be no single place to name thus giving future visitors the wrong impression that Trump  contributed. “Environmental activists have crea… Read More

If you follow environmental politics, it is very clear why industries like the oil and gas industry, livestock industry and timber industry and the politicians they elect to represent their… Read More

[At 4C] Agricultural collapse pressure is very high. A number of regions including Europe, the U.S. West, China, large parts of Africa, India and many more are all likely to be well outside… Read More

To address the twin threats of climate change and ocean acidification, nearly every nation has promised to reduce fossil fuel burning. But so far, humanity keeps burning ever more. Last y… Read More

Global warming appears in rising temperatures. Continue reading → Read More

The upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg is the perfect moment for heads of state to integrate the six milestones into their discussions on how to ensure a resilient, prosperous, inclusive and in… Read More

As Finn and Thomas point out, animals are frequently killed by machinery, earth-moving and vegetation-clearing. Those who survive often find themselves without homes, competing in a radicall… Read More

Birds of Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona Wins Literary Classics Gold July 1, 2017 –Literary Classics International Youth Book Awards (LC) announced award winners today. LC previously awarded B… Read More