Latest Ecology
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Finding better ways of describing nature and our relationships with it so we can better defend it
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The U.S. military burns millions of pounds of munitions in a tiny, African-American corner of Louisiana. The town’s residents say they’re forgotten in the plume
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Milman: ‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf of Mexico
A new report shows toxins from suppliers to companies like Tyson Foods are pouring into waterways, causing marine life to leave or die
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On one day in May, Italy met 87% of its electricity production needs from renewables
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Contributors: Dismantling the US
Trump has been paralyzed on healthcare and tax reform, but his administration has been active in eroding safeguards and protections elsewhere
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Riley: 71% of Global Emissions
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change
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Jamail: Navy Introduces Toxins to Drinking Water
Washington State’s Whidbey Island already has problems with inadequate water...
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Suzuki: Has the Environmental Movement Failed?
Interview on the environmental movement's failure to sustain its victories and the vision that will be needed to ensure public support for environmental protection
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Cole: Germany at 35% Renewables
So far this year, over a third of German electricity has come from wind, solar, biomass and hydro, at 35%. That is 2 percentage points higher than in 2016
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Sturgis: Seismic testing firms blasting Atlantic?
Number of companies seeking federal permits to disturb marine mammals...
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Rodriguez: A “Green Tide” Engulfs the D.R.
Against a history of repression, corruption, and impunity, a growing social movement in the Dominican Republic demands change
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Baskin: Climate Activists in Pacific Northwest
Fighting construction of world's largest methanol refinery
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Dreier: Celebrating Barry Commoner
Commoner viewed the environmental crisis as a symptom of a fundamentally flawed economic and social system
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Jamail: Coral Reefs Could All Die Off by 2050
The Great Barrier Reef has been dying off at an unprecedented rate due primarily to warming ocean waters
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Tokar: Climate Diplomacy and Climate Action: What’s Next?
We need to challenge all the institutions that blame our problems on immigrants and poor people while simultaneously threatening planetary survival
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This winter's El Niño Costero has ravaged both Peru and Ecuador. Why have the impacts in Peru been so much more destructive?
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The cost of continuing business as usual is much higher — a price our descendants will pay if we don’t move to an economic system that values life rather than only profits
ZMag Ecology
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Emanuele: Reflections From Standing Rock
On Monday, December 5, close to 1,000 veterans marched to the front lines of the barricades in a symbolic protest. Without question, the gesture was visually striking and significant, but it wasn’t why most of the veterans came to Standing Rock
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La Duke: Public Servants or Corporate Security?
So you joined law enforcement or the National Guard because...
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Polychroniou: Global Warming and the Future of Humanity
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale
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There are similarly devastating impacts of markets, including not only worsening economic meltdowns (e.g. 1998, 2000-01, 2008) but also the ideology now known as the financialization of nature, which is based on the view that a market problem, like the threat of extinction posed by poachers, can be treated best with a market solution
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Sturgis: Texas Billionaire Behind the Pipeline Standoff
Over the Labor Day weekend, security guards for a petro pipeline company used attack dogs and pepper spray against Native Americans resisting construction of a $3.8 billion pipeline through North Dakota, a project they say is desecrating land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux
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Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions,” and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb.”
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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.
Ecology Video
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Scipes: Climate Change: Understanding and then Going “Outside the Box” for a Solution
From a talk at Open University of the Left, 3-18-2017, Chicago, Illinois
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Cohen: Global Warming is a Public Health Nightmare
Increased rates of asthma, infectious disease, and water contamination are some of the hazards faced by the global community
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Klein: Is capitalism driving climate change?
Interview on the link between capitalism and climate change
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...