Climate Change is Genocide
by EVE OTTENBERG Pulp mill, Halsey, Oregon. Photo:L Jeffrey St. Clair. The only good thing to say about Covid is that it caused carbon emissions to drop. Not enough to save humanity from catastrophic climate change, […]
Category: Environment
Shrink-Wrapped: Plastic Pollution and the Greatest Economic System Jesus Ever Devised
by DANIEL BEAUMONT Photograph Source: Marco Verch – CC BY 2.0 When exactly I began putting plastic items in a special tub for recycling I don’t remember. Probably in the 1980s when I moved to Princeton. Then […]
Will Covid Start a Trade War Over U.S. Meat Exports?
by MARTHA ROSENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On June 21, the official China website posted that products from Tyson Foods’ Springdale, Arkansas plant “that have arrived or are about to arrive in Hong Kong will be temporarily […]
US to Form Icebreaker Fleet for the Arctic. “Polar Security Cutter”
By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida In the past few months, the United States has tightened its policies in the Arctic, as several measures show. For decades, Washington has not been concerned with strengthening its military presence […]
Invisible Rainbow: 5G Electromagnetic Radiation and the Evolution of Life on Planet Earth
By Robert J. Burrowes In his recently revised and updated book The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life, scientist Arthur Firstenberg has made both science and history comprehensible by explaining the importance and significance to life on […]
Warning over pollution link to Covid-19 as public calls for cleaner air
Respiratory expert warns of worse outcomes for coronavirus patients who live in polluted areas By: Dominic Penna High levels of air pollution have combined with other factors to create a perfect storm resulting in worse […]
Barbarism on the Rise: Hunting Mama Wolves and Bears and Their Cubs in Alaska
by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Arctic wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. When I was in elementary school, I had a slingshot for hunting birds. To this day, I find it impossible to explain why I indulged in such […]
Living With Global Warming
by MANUEL GARCÍA, JR. I modeled mathematically the thermal imbalance of our biosphere, which we call global warming, so as to gain my own quantitative understanding of the interplay of the two major effects that give […]
Masters of Space: Deep Space Strategy in the Age of Trump
by: KARL GROSSMAN Image Source: United States Space Force – Public Domain The United States “must be capable of winning wars that extend into space,” asserts a just-released “Defense Space Strategy” report. It is the first […]
Amazon Rain forest Hit By Killer Droughts
By: ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: Neil Palmer/CIAT – Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity 2005, 2010, 2015. Of course, droughts […]