Latest Ecology
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The fake grassroots campaign run by grouse shooters is just one instance of the way democracy is being bypassed
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Cole: Iowa could go 100% Green with Wind in only 14 years
Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the...
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Bacon: When the River Turned Yellow
Sixty miles south of the Arizona border, the devastation from a toxic spill has led to an epochal battle between a transnational mining conglomerate and an alliance of miners and farmers
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Shiva: Biodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarised Mind
A recent report from the National Academy of Science of...
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Godoy: Germany’s Energy Transition: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In Germany, wind and solar energy coexist with energy generated...
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Cole: Top 5 Green Energy Good News Stories
Solar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then
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Sadik-Khan: ‘Streetfight’: The Battle for Bike Lanes, Open Space, and Quality Urban Life
Excerpt from a new book about what it takes to transform urban policies for a sustainable future
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the new World Bank when it comes to using finances to influence policies in agriculture
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Hunziker: Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster
A big part of the problem is that nobody has experience with a Fukushima-type meltdown, which now appears to be 100% meltdown
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Shiva: Women Around the World Are Leading the Fight Against Corporate Agriculture
Agro-biodiversity bolsters food security at many levels
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A common question is: Why do farmers adopt Bt cotton which harms them? But farmers do not choose Bt cotton. They have to buy Bt cotton as all other choices are destroyed
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Hunziker: Fukushima Flunks Decontamination
The Abe government is desperately trying to clean up and repopulate as if nothing happened
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Sturgis: N.C. produces flawed study to dismiss cancer-cluster fears near Duke Energy coal plants
Is it surprising that people living near these plants report unusual patterns of illness?
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Mitchell: Contamination at Largest US Air Force Base in Asia: Kadena, Okinawa
Documents reveal how years of accidents and neglect have polluted local land and water with hazardous chemicals including arsenic, lead, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos and dioxin
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Kamal: Climate: Africa’s Human Existence Is at Severe Risk
“No continent will be struck as severely by the impacts of climate change as Africa”
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Hiroaki: “The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime”
Interview with an influential voice and a central figure in the anti-nuclear movement since the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi of March 11, 2011
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Dolack: There’s no place for clean water under ‘free trade’
That last ruling provides the essence of “free trade” agreements — the accumulation of corporate power to override all democratic controls over health, safety, environmental or labor safeguards
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Jorden: Cancun Residents Halt Developers to Protect and Revive Beloved Mangrove
As one of the only green spaces for Cancun residents, the loss of Tajamar Mangrove was felt immediately, and civic reaction was swift
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Silva: Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua
Nicaragua has lost 60 percent of its surface water sources and up to 50 percent of its underground sources, which either dried up or have been polluted
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Engelfried: How Montanans stopped the largest new coal mine in North America
Montana communities won a victory against one of the world’s...
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Grossman: Nuclear Power Plants: Pre-Deployed WMDs
Pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction. That’s what nuclear power plants are
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Dyke: Climate Godzilla Stirs: Heat and CO2 Records ‘Obliterated’
There are sure to be more climate records broken this year. But we treat them as we treat new fashions, phones or films
ZMag Ecology
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New information emerged recently about toxic contamination from chemicals used to manufacture Teflon pots and pans and many other consumer, military, and industrial products
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Dolack: No Planet for Optimism
When it comes to global warming, what else don’t we know? What science does know, and what it can infer from studying archeological records, already makes anybody who thinks the long-term habitability of Earth is more important than short-term profits very worried.
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Brecher: A New Wave of Climate Insurgents
One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse. That’s about 40 million adults. The fate of the earth may depend on them—and others around the world —doing so.
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Benally: Protesting Radioactive Pollution At Uranium Mines
Indigenous communities have been disproportionately impacted as approximately 75 percent of AUMs are located on federal and tribal lands. A majority of AUMs are located in 15 western states with the potential to impact more than 50 million people.
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The world the diplomats inhabit couldn’t be farther removed from the places where the impacts of continuing climate chaos are felt the most. In that world, people are working harder year by year to grow food and sustain their lives in the face of an increasingly unstable global climate.
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Boardman: Environmental Terrorists in Paris
Having absolute authority to take ameliorative steps on their own initiative, the plunderers swamp the credulous media with claims that an unwieldy conference with a track record of 23 years of failure is the only possible way to find a solution to the dangers of climate change.
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Smith: Global Warming’s Unacknowledged Threat: The Pentagon
On November 8, the World Bank predicted that climate change is on track to drive 100 million people into poverty by 2030.
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Angus: Hijacking The Anthropocene
What can lobbyists do when science contradicts their political messages?...
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By the time I leave Kentucky’s federal prison center, where I’m an inmate with a 3 month sentence, the world’s 12th largest city may be without water. Estimates put the water reserve of Sao Paulo, a city of 20 million people, at 60 days
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Sturgis: Governors’ Big Oil-Assisted Lobbying Pays Off
The Obama administration released its draft five-year plan for oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf and for the first time it includes waters off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, But environmental advocates blasted it for putting coastal ecosystems and economies at risk.
Ecology Video
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Klein: Is capitalism driving climate change?
Interview on the link between capitalism and climate change
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This weekend of extreme weather comes as climatologists predict 2015 will be the warmest year ever recorded, smashing last year’s record
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Solon: “The Paris Agreement Will See the Planet Burn”
He once sat at the same table as the world leaders gathered in Paris to hammer out a U.N. agreement on global warming. Now he stands on the outside
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350.org: How the Keystone Fight Was Won
For the first time ever, a big fossil fuel project has been rejected.
Ecology Audio
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Rasmus: Environmental Activists Discuss Sunday, Sept. 21 Demonstration & What Next
Jack Rasmus welcomes environmental activists, Michael Rubin and Glenn Turner, to discuss tomorrow’s major environment movement event
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Rasmus: Progress or Election Year Maneuver?
Jack Rasmus and guest, Steve Breyman, discuss this past week’s just released Obama/EPA proposals to reduce CO2 emissions from existing industrial plants in the US by 30% by 2030
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Rasmus: U.S. Climate Crisis Intensifies
Jack Rasmus welcomes guest, Jill Stein, Presidential candidate of the Green Party USA, to discuss President Obama’s just released, ‘US National Climate Assessment Report’
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Shiva: The Rights of Mother Earth
Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
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Trigona: Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk
Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk
Ecology Blogs
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Wilson: PRIMER: Revenue Insurance in the 2012 Farm Bill
PRIMER: Revenue Insurance in the 2014 Farm Bill This is...
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Wilson: PRIMER: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill
FARM JUSTICE PROPOPOSALS FOR THE 2014 FARM BILL Introduction Here...
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: Where have all the fish gone? Have we reached the end of the line?
By 2048 we might have a world without seafood. Bluefin...
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: Afghanistan’s Minerals: Hope or Despair?
Why we should view the discovery of Afghan minerals with...
Ecology Books
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Hudson: Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change
'This is an excellent new work and a must read...
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: Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petroviolence
About the Book The recent escalation in the violent conflict...
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: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace
About the Book A leading voice in struggles for global...