Latest Ecology

• 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”
• And Kendra Pierre-Louis: The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List

  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
• 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”
• 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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  Monbiot: Watery Grave

  Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.
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  Monbiot: People want a greener, happier world now

  Our politicians have other ideas
• Loumakis: Energy isn’t just electricity

  The common mistake obscuring the mammoth task of decarbonisation
• 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
• 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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  Monbiot: Road to Perdition

  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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  Monbiot: Sold Out

  The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections
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  Falk: The Right to Food During the Coronavirus Pandemic

  A Time of Bio-Ethical-Ecological Crisis
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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