Category — Climate Change & The Environment

Human beings are under attack by enemies so numerous and resourceful that we can not possibly survive the onslaught without help. Continue reading

Environmental Defense Fund is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems. Continue reading

As Alaskan waters warm and sea ice melts, fishers and scientists are seeing fish populations shift north and with that comes the threat of more commercial fishing. The Obama administration approved a plan to protect an area five times larger than all national parks combined. Continue reading

260 to 320 million more people may be affected by malaria as mosquitos move into newly warm areas. . . the spread of water-borne diseases increases…populations are forced to rely on less-clean water sources. . . It is encouraging that U.S. President Barack Obama has made climate change a priority. Continue reading

Swine Flu started in a small Mexican village next to an enormous pig feeding factory. Municipal health investigators indicated that flies feeding on tons of untreated pig feces may have transferred the flu to the villagers who died. Could this mean that the deadly strain of this virus is not transferred from human to human? Continue reading

Tar Heel, North Carolina, ground zero for the next Hog Farm to Human pandemic. America’s top pork producer churns out a sea of untreated waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat. Continue reading

Compassion in World Farming is working strategically toward a whole food system that is truly kind, caring and honest – kind to animals; caring for the environment and consumer health; and honestly labeled. – Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive. Continue reading

There is no evidence that eating pork gives you swine flu. There is significant evidence that buying meat and produce from livestock feeding factories and industrial farms endangers everybody’s heath. Continue reading

The enormous stew of trash – which consists of 80 % plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers – floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii. Continue reading

We all know our oceans are in trouble, but that trouble is coming on faster than some feared. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will reach 450 parts per million by the year 2050. As a result, this predicted pace will soon wipe out all coral reefs in existence. Continue reading

The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education. Continue reading

90% of the ocean’s big fish are gone. Worldwide seafood production skyrocketed then plummeted. 1950 – 19 million tons – 15.4 pounds per person. 1990 – 37 million tons – 37.4 pounds per person. Continue reading

Global Warning and over development stirs up desert dust bowls. The dust darkens the surface of winter snows causing early melt down. This increases the danger of mid summer droughts. Continue reading

The environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal mining across Appalachia has been well documented. But scientists are now beginning to understand that the mining operations’ most lasting damage may be caused by the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams. Continue reading

Why Water? Right now, 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean and safe drinking water. That’s one in six of us. Who is Charity: Water? Charity: Water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Continue reading

America’s rivers, lakes and wells run dry…The Farm Industry Wastes 1/3 of America’s Fresh Water…Freeloaders in the free market…Corporate Pirates Secretly Steal Public Water Works…Economic Democracy is the Answer. Continue reading

10% of all bird species are likely to disappear by the year 2100, and another 15% could be on the brink of extinction, according to a new study by Stanford University biologists. Continue reading

North American scientists studying West Nile Virus have shown that more diverse bird populations can help to buffer people against infection. Continue reading

Environment: Why care about red squirrels, tundra, blue beetles or little bluestem grasses? Three reasons, which boil down to self-interest. Continue reading

Diseases are evolving into strains that are far more dangerous and difficult to treat…New strains of tuberculosis, staff and e-coli resist our most powerful antibiotics – subjecting their victims to horrible deaths. Continue reading

Untested, unregulated gas drilling techniques could poison our water supply. Continue reading

Union of Concerned Scientists report finds that the oil company spent nearly $16 million to fund skeptic groups. Continue reading

President Barack Obama’s economic-stimulus program among the most progressive pieces of economic legislation since the 1960s. Continue reading

If we act now to implement President Barack Obama’s energy plan – which proposes investment in clean energy (and some badly needed jobs to boot) – we can avert a future in which the nation’s energy costs rise by $420 billion a year over the next five years. Continue reading

In one of the many tragic tales of environmental heroism, Ken Saro-Wiwa stood up to the oil giant Shell with peaceful demonstrations and vocal opposition—until he was executed by his own government on false charges. Continue reading

Those who stand in denial of climate change have failed to produce a simple peer-reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human-induced climate change. Continue reading

“The American Clean Energy and Security Act” is a comprehensive approach to America’s energy policy that charts a new course towards a clean energy economy. Continue reading

Green-collar workers — who include everyone from energy-efficiency consultants to wastewater plant operators — constitute a tiny but fast-growing segment of the U.S. economy, according to a study published today by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Continue reading

The proposal is based on one of the problems of conventional vehicles: the loss of kinetic energy during braking. This waste of energy leads to very high fuel consumption and, consequently, to an increase in CO2emissions. Continue reading

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host public meetings and accept public comments on its proposed Preferred Alternative plan that addresses the risks to human health and the environment at the Palos Verdes Shelf, located near Los Angeles, Calif. Continue reading