Global warming milestone is one of three climate records set to be broken in 2015, says UK Met Office. The other two: 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest year in recorded history and it is the first year in which CO2 concentrations in...
there are two great environmental challenges facing the planet, but only one is being taken seriously...
Climate science is shaking up the world as we know it. It is destabilizing the establishment and threatening the interests of some of the most powerful financial groups. The facts regarding the key causes of climate change are also challenging many of our most favorite...
"What happens to human beings – psychologically, spiritually, morally – when we no longer have an escape from the confines of our technological termite hill?" - a critique of eco-modernism...
"I am excited that this is really bringing together all of these different social movements that have been gaining traction over the past few years and demonstrating that they all intersect."...
Disbelieving evidence-based science isn't skepticism; it is a form of willful ignorance...
It's worse than any of us feared. It can be summed up in two words: Corporate Enslavement...
Why global temperature increases would be devastating to already poor countries...
How can so many Americans support practices that, when made visible, are so horrifying that we are forced to look away? The answer, surprisingly, lies in another historical example of normalized violence: foot-binding in China....
Unfortunately, 50,000 miles of other oil/gas pipelines were built in the US even as the debate over the fourth phase of the Keystone pipeline raged on. Now, finally, President Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline...
Toronto Pig Save's Anita Krajnc says to them every pig matters and they are challenging the idea that animals are property...
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...