Two major pipeline spills reported same week Trump advances KXL, DAPL
America's 2.5 million miles pipelines “suffer hundreds of leaks and ruptures every year, costing lives and money.”
Sobering 2018 national climate change report is leaked to the NY Times
Government climate scientists take action.
Critics: Trump EPA’s formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human health indication of...
"The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."
Thailand starts off new year with plastic bag ban
“It’s not going to be easy to change the way of thinking and behavior of those people.”
Arctic warming & climate change ‘should be the number one urgent conversation right now’
What happens in the Arctic is now affecting us all.
Apocalyptic Capitalism
The Paris climate summit, dominated by the economic and political forces that are driving us toward destruction, will end with the usual empty rhetoric and a continued assault on the ecosystem.
There’s only one essential role humans have on Earth—a humbler perspective could save the...
While the world’s oceans, nonhuman animals, and plants play starring roles in sustaining our ecosystem, why are we so bent on sabotaging it?
EPA approves use of herbicides linked to cancer and crop cross contamination
Dicamba, the main ingredient in the three herbicides, is "highly volatile and can easily drift onto unprotected neighboring fields from fields of crops genetically engineered to withstand it."
Taxpayers charged $7 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels on public lands
"This report makes it clear as day that the Trump agenda is the fossil fuel billionaire agenda."
Lockdown-size emission cuts are needed every two years to combat climate crisis
The concern now is whether countries can build on the reductions caused by the pandemic, or if emissions will increase again as economies reopen.