Latest Ecology
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Horn: After Dakota Access CEO gave $10M, Trump pushed secret pipeline permits
“It wouldn’t be the first time he’s given Trump cash shortly before getting lucky with his pipelines”
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After three years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled most of the major climate and environmental policies the president promised to undo.
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Shiva: Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves
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Wakes: What the Flint Water Crisis Meant for My Family
Take it from me: You don't want to go through what we did. Every community deserves water, life, and dignity.
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Lerner: As the West Burns, Trump Administration Races to Demolish Environmental Protections
Polluters and their agents in government want to finalize as many environmental rollbacks as possible before the presidential election
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Hyman: New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance in New Mexico
“They’ve always put a price tag on our forehead, and just expect us to be quiet”
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Libardi: Amazon heroes who don’t give up
The Guardians of the Forest, a group of indigenous Guajajara in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, struggle to defend their land from invaders and to guarantee their survival in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Jamail: Fracking Company Has Made It Rain Toxic Water Upon New Mexico Without Penalty
New Mexico is faced with this fundamental issue: Does it fill its coffers with blood money, sacrificing the health of its people in order to reap funding from the oil and gas industry? Or does it hold accountable an entire industry that is poisoning its people and the Land of Enchantment?
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Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.
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Loumakis: Energy isn’t just electricity
The common mistake obscuring the mammoth task of decarbonisation
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Molvar: It’s always the ranchers
Ranchers like to project the fiction that their custom and culture is the way of the West and that they are supported by the vast majority of westerners. This has never been the case
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Madan: It’s time to rein in industries devouring world’s last standing forests
It’s time we end our addiction to endless consumption and realize our future is tied to the fate of the planet
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Wuerthner: Periodic “devastation” necessary for forest health
The bottom line is that our forest health is dependent on episodic events that cause significant mortality. This is not only natural but required for “healthy forest ecosystems.”
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How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?
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Pollin: It’s Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry
The best way to defeat the fossil fuel companies is to bring the companies under public scrutiny and control, which should create a clear path for a relatively painless death over the next 20 years or so
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Steinfort: Democratizing Energy to Counter the Climate Catastrophe
The economic recovery as well as a Green New Deal will only be meaningful if we take our country-wide energy systems out of the market and into democratic public ownership
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The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections
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Amelang: How the Coronavirus could be a Climate Game Changer
"Nobody wants life to stay the way it was during the pandemic. But some new routines we should maintain, because they serve the environment and quality of life."
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Brecher: Black Lives and the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal may be a vehicle for building the broad movement for structural change necessary to truly make Black lives matter
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Moore: Defending Land and Water From Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
The health-centered struggles and collective approaches of mining-affected communities and Indigenous peoples can help us refocus on what is truly essential toward a healthier future for all
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Raskin: Che, Chez and Ross Cannard: Organic Farming, Sonoma, California
Why is it guerrilla-style farming? Because it’s bucking big, corporate agriculture that relies on big machines, and that chews up and spits out workers all day long. Also because it builds soil rather than depletes it
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Milman: Renewables Surpass Coal in US Energy Generation for First Time in 130 Years
‘We are seeing the end of coal,’ says analyst as energy source with biggest impact on climate crisis falls for sixth year in a row
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Molvar: Should federal public lands be prioritized for renewable energy development?
Solutions that sacrifice one aspect of our planet’s biosphere to assist another are unsustainable and irresponsible
ZMag Ecology
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Burrowes: Our Vanishing World: Rainforests
In essence, you have a choice: understand and act on the crucial importance of rainforests before we destroy their integrity and lose them completely. Or help to accelerate the human rush to extinction as a consequence of failing to do so
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Marlens: The Farms of the Future
The farms of the future should be regenerative, diverse, accessible, community-oriented, places of celebration
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Gedicks: Brazilian Tailings Dam Disaster: Is Wisconsin Next?
On January 25, 2019, a 28-story high tailings dam in Brumadinho, in southeastern Brazil failed, releasing almost 3 billion gallons of sludgy mine waste
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Engler: Destroying Civilization
Is it simply business as usual or a corporate conspiracy to destroy the planet? However one characterizes it, our planet is being cooked so already wealthy people can make even more profit
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The great environmental challenge of our time is to understand that the many sources of biodestruction are interconnected and must be confronted simultaneously, rather than disparaging one danger to focus on another
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Kelly: Fifteen Years of Pipeline Spills
5,475 days, 527 pipeline spills: that’s the math presented in a new report from environmental groups Greenpeace USA and the Waterkeeper Alliance examining pipelines
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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
Ecology Video
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Ford: If We Don’t Protect Nature We Can’t Protect Ourselves
We are facing an emergency resulting from our toxic economic...
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Bees: Taking flight for all living things
The Birds and The Bees PSA was created by concerned citizens as an act of free speech
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Hurteau: Fueling Deadliest Blazes
100 years of fire suppression and human-caused climate change are fueling California's historic wildfires
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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
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 2018 Farm Bill This is...
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Wilson: PRIMER: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill
Primer: FARM JUSTICE PROPOPOSALS FOR THE 2018 FARM BILL FARM...
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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...