Then, is the solution to stop caring and start working for money? Women in India do almost 10 times as much unpaid work as men - a much higher ratio than the global average - leaving them out of the formal workforce…...
"Restraining the electorate, releasing the powerful: this is a perfectly designed formula for a multidimensional crisis." - George Monbiot. Is a multidimensional crisis also a multidimensional opportunity?...
The answer: It has been rapidly losing ice from 2012 onward, even if it gained some ice between 1990 and 2012...
Study co-author and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sea-level expert Anders Levermann noted that if swift carbon reductions are not implemented, "further greenhouse-gas emission will heighten the risk of an ice collapse in West Antarctica and more unstoppable sea-level rise." Otherwise, he warned, rising oceans...
And that's how climate change turns our weather upside down...
Another thought provoking article by Paul Mahony...
A great tract of Earth is on fire and threatened species are being driven out of their habitats. This is a crime against humanity and nature...
The blaze, which has burned for two months on indigenous land and spread across 100km at its peak, is suspected to have been started by illegal loggers...
The WindChill uses biomimicry to help preserve food in rural areas without access to electricity....
How scientists are missing the connections due to their personal biases...
"An integrated approach to the evidence shows that most diets that are protective against cancer are mainly made up from foods of plant origin." - World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute of Cancer Research. When I read the news yesterday that an analysis by...
"The meat industry, which is attacking the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has less credibility than the Flat Earth Society. IARC is the gold standard for rigor, comprehensiveness, and reasonableness — all qualities in short supply in the meat industry and its friends...
"Through no-till farming, crop diversity, and living cover crops, we are storing and building our soil carbon levels by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and putting it into the soil where it becomes the currency for a wonderfully complex economy of plants and soil microorganisms." On...
Climate scientists are feeling the blues because they can't imagine the current system can change, just as the caterpillar cannot imagine flying around as a butterfly...
"Every drop of blood symbolizes not merely a loss of life but a loss of decency, a perversion of science, an affront to democracy, and an indelible stain on the character of the State of Florida."...
This is a tragedy...
If an institution doesn't practice Ahimsa, it shouldn't pretend to be a Hindu temple...
"While the USDA is tasked with regulating the meat industry, it also has a role in promoting it. This tension plays out every time the U.S. government wants to give out dietary advice—and the results generally wind up favoring the industry." In fact, the USDA only...
While 80% of the purchasing decisions in developed countries are made by women who can choose to reverse climate change by making appropriate decisions...
COP-21 will not be serious about addressing climate change. Not only is animal agriculture off the table, so is aviation, commercial shipping and biofuels… Experts will soon gather in Paris for the annual UN Climate Change Conference to discuss how to cut carbon emissions and halt...
Jonathan Chait is dismissive of Naomi Klein's critique of unfettered capitalism, claiming that no one has found a better alternative for 150 years. Well, how about if we "fetter" capitalism?… A hot new left-wing book attacks liberal environmentalism...
Doing right to those who were done wrong...
2015 is likely to be hottest year ever by a wide margin...
"there is still time (to change our course). And time means hope – but not without action."...
Owner offers free refill to Jews and Palestinian guests dining together, to show that "we're all human beings"...
Our governments are like the colonial British empire of early 20th century India: they are frightened of upsetting their precariously teetering positions at the bow of the Titanic. Just as Gandhi pointed out then during the Khadi movement, it is we, the people, who need...