by MIKE GARRITY – JASON CHRISTENSEN Greater Yellowstone grizzly. Photo: National Park Service. We have tens of millions of cattle in America but we only have about 700 grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Yet an […]
by ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: Mark Heard from Calgary, Alberta, Canada – CC BY 2.0 Throughout the world, mega droughts are hitting hard with a ferocity not seen in decades and in some cases not seen in […]
by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Fires burning East Australia, December 2019. Courtesy NASA. Public Domain. Australia: coal and Murdoch are kings Australia has had a series of bad governments beholden to the coal industry and to the Rupert […]
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Northern Harrier, Columbia marshlands. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. January, 2019 + Ryan Zinke, under investigation for trying to enrich himself in office, refused to step down from his post at the Interior Department […]
by MANUEL GARCÍA, JR. Pulp Mill, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. How long has science known about CO2-induced climate change, and are we clever enough today to geo-engineer our way out of cooking ourselves to […]
by ROBERT HUNZIKER Image Source: Ali Zifan – CC0 There’s a problem with America’s favorite statistic: GDP. It avoids pretty much everything that’s actually, truly, really good for society, including the importance of robust ecology. Still, it’s […]
by JOHN DAVIS Pulp mills and chip barges, Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Australia is an island continent composed of a vast treeless desert edged with a fringe of heavily urbanized temperate bush where the […]
by ELLEN BROWN Solid-waste power plant, Keizer, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called […]
by BINOY KAMPMARK Prior to the UN Convention on Climate Change talks held in Madrid, the sense that tradition would assert itself was hard to buck. Weariness and frustration came in the wake of initial high […]
Unless radical changes are made, warns the lead author of a new WHO report, “the growth and development of individuals and societies for decades to come” are at risk. by: Jessica Corbett, A new multi-paper […]