Latest Ecology

• 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
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  Pahnke: Make a Resilient, Localized Food System Part of the Next Stimulus

  From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed
• Aron: Climate Action by the U-California is more Spin than Substance

  We are calling on the university to truly divest, as a matter of urgency
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  Monbiot: Rethinking Education

  Ecology and Earth systems, from which all life flows, should be at the heart of learning
• Sowards: In Times of Emergency: No Sacrifices of the Public Interest

  Trump isn’t the first to try to use emergencies to implement regressive policies, and history shows that the people can fight back — and win
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  Roy: Our Task is to Disable the Engine

  Covid-19 and the "super-surveillance" state
• Joe Parkin Daniels and Lily Kuo: Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls

  'It's positively alpine'
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  McKibben: ‘A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement’

  Michael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal
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  Klare: The Beginning of the End for Oil?

  Energy in a Post-Pandemic World
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  Cole: Lowest Solar bid in World History

  Coal is typically estimated at 5 cents a kilowatt hour at the lowest, with natural gas these days a little less. Neither of them can compete with a solar cost of 1.35 cents a kilowatt hour
• Raskin: Feed Sonoma: Agricultural Cooperatives will help save the world

  Co-operation will save the world, and so will co-operatives like “Feed Sonoma,” a farmer-worker owned co-op in the making said to be the first of its kind in the state of California
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  Gordon: The acceleration of death precipitated by Covid-19 exposes state crime

  Covid-19 has been uncovering the structural violence that states have instituted against their own populations
• Helvarg: How Did We Get From Earth Day To Trump?

  Fifty years after the first Earth Day, the connection between the environment and human health has never been more obvious
• Heath: UN Chief Says There’s a Bigger Threat than Coronavirus

  In Earth Day speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenges President Donald Trump on fossil fuel subsidies and climate change
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  Lerner: Africa’s Exploding Plastic Nightmare

  As Africa Drowns in Garbage, the Plastics Business Keeps Booming
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  Cole: Is Covid-19 Killing the Coal Industry in Egypt and around the World?

  Egypt is one of the countries most vulnerable to the climate emergency and global heating
• Sovereignty Network: A call from North Africa: sovereignty over our land, food and destiny

  The only solution before us is unity and solidarity in order to build a new world in which people’s sovereignty, democracy and social justice prevail
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  Feffer: The Next Pandemic

  We will always play catch-up with these wily viruses if we continue our all-out war on the environment
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  Davis: Pandemics, super-capitalism and the struggles of tomorrow

  The super-capitalism of today has become an absolute fetter on the development of the productive forces necessary for our species survival
• Zhang: Trump’s EPA Unleashing Pollution That Makes Us Vulnerable to COVID-19

  Between Trump’s EPA and industries free to pollute at will, this radical regulation stoppage will make coronavirus outcomes worse for communities that were already sensitive to the pandemic
• Peña: Planned Explosion Covered Little Village In Dust During Respiratory Pandemic

  — Why Did The City Let It Happen?
• Gibbs: The EPA Just Gave Polluters A License To Kill

  Using the pandemic as cover, the agency is suspending environmental regulations. I’ve seen firsthand what happens next — people die
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  Nader: Trump’s 7 Pro-Contagion Reversals Increase the Coronavirus Toll

  A brief look at Trump’s pro-contagion activities that leave Americans defenseless in the face of the virus, implemented by his crazed and cruel appointees
• Moore: Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats

  This month a peaceful resistance movement marks eight years of struggle against a gold mining project that threatens scarce water supplies.
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  Klare: Avenger Planet

  Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature’s Response to Human Transgression?