China takes another big step away from CO2
By Deirdre Griswold January 24, 2017 100MW Ningxia Shizuishan Solar Power Plant—China. The contrast couldn’t be sharper. On one side of the world, a president takes office and makes his first priority...
View ArticleScientists go rogue vs. Trump’s gag order
By Lyn Neeley February 2, 2017 President Donald Trump inflamed another section of the population by signing a gag order on government scientists and specific agencies after being in office less than...
View ArticleBehind the murder of Berta Cáceres
By Chris Fry March 19, 2017 Berta Cáceres Honduran Indigenous leader and environmental activist Berta Cáceres was shot to death a year ago at her home in a gated community, supposedly under Honduran...
View ArticleAfter fracking-caused earthquakes, Pawnee Nation courts to try energy companies
By Betsey Piette March 19, 2017 For nearly three decades prior to 2008, Oklahoma averaged only two earthquakes a year of magnitude 2.7 or higher. Then the state experienced a boom in hydraulic...
View ArticleAs disasters multiply, Trump kicks environmental destruction up a notch
By G. Dunkel April 1, 2017 March 25 – President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 24 clearing the way for building the Keystone XL Pipeline. The State Department promptly issued the...
View ArticleTo save Mother Earth: Change the system
By Teresa Gutierrez April 19, 2017 Progressive and liberal-thinking intellectuals have noted that the issue of global warming is so critical that it is “the biggest issue of our or any time” and that...
View ArticleTrump, the ruling class and the Paris Accords
By Fred Goldstein June 7, 2017 Donald Trump has confirmed his right-wing ideological alliance with the ultra-chauvinist Steve Bannon faction in the White House by announcing that he is going to “pull...
View ArticleFracking Colorado, part 1: Impact on environment and people
By Viviana Weinstein June 25, 2017 More and more towns all over Colorado are being affected by the negative impacts of fracking, including explosions, noise, dust, water contamination, injuries and...
View ArticleFracking Colorado, part 2: Impact on environment and people
By Viviana Weinstein June 29, 2017 Fracking Colorado, part 1: Impact on environment and people Fracking Colorado, Part 3: Impact on environment and people To a person growing up in the New York/New...
View ArticleFracking Colorado, part 3: Impact on environment and people
By Viviana Weinstein July 20, 2017 Part 1: Impact on environment and people Part 2: Impact on environment and people Denver — The scientific evidence is mounting about the deleterious effects of...
View Article‘Unprecedented’ storm exposes gov’t failure as Harvey covers Houston with a lake
By G. Dunkel August 28, 2017 As of Monday evening, Aug. 28, 10 deaths have been reported since Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast near Corpus Christi three days ago as a Category 4 (very intense)...
View ArticleEyewitness Harvey: Toxic chemicals, biased coverage and prisons
By Gloria Rubac August 29, 2017 An oil refinery flare, right, continues to burn through wind and rain as Hurricane Harvey moves into Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Houston, Aug. 28 —...
View ArticleFloods devastate South Asian countries
By G. Dunkel September 6, 2017 At least 40 million people have been affected by two months of severe flooding in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The wet monsoons, which hit South and Southeast Asia...
View ArticleHurricane Irma’s devastation: Nothing ‘natural’ about it
By Deirdre Griswold September 11, 2017 Barbuda Sept. 11 — Scientists know it. The rash of powerful storms to hit the Caribbean and the Southern states of the U.S. in the last month was not “natural.”...
View ArticleIrma hits Florida: Who will help those most in need?
By John Catalinotto September 11, 2017 As of Sept. 11, people around the world have read millions of words and seen extensive television reports and photos of the devastation Hurricane Irma has caused...
View ArticleFrom the people of Venezuela to the people of the U.S.
September 17, 2017 The Bolivarian government of Venezuela has made free gasoline available to all Hurricane Harvey rescue workers, firefighters and other first responders in Texas and Louisiana....
View ArticleFracking Colorado, part 2: Impact on environment and people
By Viviana Weinstein June 29, 2017 Fracking Colorado, part 1: Impact on environment and people Fracking Colorado, Part 3: Impact on environment and people To a person growing up in the New York/New...
View ArticleFracking Colorado, part 3: Impact on environment and people
By Viviana Weinstein July 20, 2017 Part 1: Impact on environment and people Part 2: Impact on environment and people Denver — The scientific evidence is mounting about the deleterious effects of...
View Article‘Unprecedented’ storm exposes gov’t failure as Harvey covers Houston with a lake
By G. Dunkel August 28, 2017 As of Monday evening, Aug. 28, 10 deaths have been reported since Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast near Corpus Christi three days ago as a Category 4 (very intense)...
View ArticleEyewitness Harvey: Toxic chemicals, biased coverage and prisons
By Gloria Rubac August 29, 2017 An oil refinery flare, right, continues to burn through wind and rain as Hurricane Harvey moves into Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Houston, Aug. 28 —...
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