Latest Ecology

• Shimo: Nestlé extracts millions of litres, residents have no drinking water

  Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land
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  Monbiot: An Electrifying Idea

  Electric food – the new sci-fi diet that could save our planet
• Carrington: Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970

  The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists
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  Monbiot: Plastic Soup

  The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.
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  Fitz: Is Nuclear Power a Solution to the Climate Crisis?

  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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  Shiva: Kerala wake-up call on growth and development

  The images of floods and mudslides in Kerala, known as “God’s own country”, should be a wake-up call — we should ask ourselves if we are on a sustainable development path
• Raskin: “Fuck Wine Grapes, Fuck Wines”

  The Coming Napafication of the World
• Schwob: Haul Together

  With companies fighting reorganization, it’ll take a united front to get the private waste industry to clean up its act
• Ekwurzel: Wildfires Are Faster, Stronger, Deadlier

  Interview on climate change
• Lawrence: A giant planetary Ponzi scheme

  Our economies are borrowing far more from the Earth’s ecosystems than they can sustain
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  Cole: Global Heat Wave

  This future can be stopped. It is in our hands. If we swing into action, we can keep global heating to half that amount and avoid the full calamity
• AFP: Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes: study

  Diabetes affects more than 420 million people globally and is one of the world's fastest growing diseases
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  Monbiot: Our natural world is disappearing before our eyes

  We have to save it
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  Wasserman: Reckless Energy Policies

  The nation’s entrenched fossil-nuclear corporate elites are more focused on propping up the industries of the past than embracing the technologies of the future
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  Cole: China’s Green Shift

  Will Overtake US in Energy Technology, Security
• Anderson: Environmental Degradation Under Trump

  Pruitt’s personal indulgences seem far more important than his policies’ impact on the planet
• Roman-Alcalá: Agroecology is Advancing Around the Globe

  With its strong focus on social change for small farmers, agroecology is going mainstream worldwide, but the American food movement has yet to catch up
• Vawter: Pipeline Outrage Is a Human Issue, Not a Political Issue

  The fight against pipelines can unite progressives and libertarians, city folk and country folk
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  Fitz: Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl: Reality and Unreality

  With the escalating doom of climate change hovering over us, it is tempting to push nuclear horror to the back of our minds
• Dolack: If you incentivize pollution, you incentive death

  Once again, it is impossible to have infinite growth on a finite planet
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  Glick: Wind and Solar 94, Gas 2

  In the first quarter of 2018, according to FERC, approximately 2% of the new electrical generation capacity (power plants) came from natural gas, while 94% of it came from wind and solar
• Kelly: 5,475 days, 527 pipeline spills

  Those leaks released 3.6 million gallons of hazardous liquids, including 2.8 million gallons of crude oil
• Buford: Canary in the Coal Pond

  New reports provide an unprecedented look at contaminants leaking from coal ash ponds and landfills
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  Shiva: Indigenous seeds can end farmer suicides

  In the creative hands and minds of our farmers and artisans lie the freedom from fossil fuels which are destroying both the planet and the meaningful work
• Brown: Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet

  Two new studies from Europe have found that the number...