Latest Ecology

• Denning: Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

  How communities develop infrastructure, social and economic systems, planning and preparedness can make them more resilient – or more vulnerable – to extreme events
• Molvar: Why Regenerative Farming Works and Regenerative Ranching Fails

  The reality is that the only way to improve land health, soil regeneration, and even livestock weight gain is to significantly reduce the overall intensity of livestock grazing on the land
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  Monbiot: Britain’s rivers are suffocating to death

  Water that should be crystal clear has become a green-brown slop of microscopic algae because of industrial farm waste
• La Duke: Militarized Crackdown on Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Protests

  Nearly 600 water protectors have been arrested during ongoing protests in Minnesota against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline at the Shell River
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  Cole: Under Pressure from Biden, Japan pledges to double target for Renewables in energy mix by 2030

  To the extent that Biden is exerting this pressure on US allies, he is playing a pivotal role in our global turn to renewables
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  Engler: Time to Ban Automobile Advertising

  Decades ago when it became clear humanity was hurtling towards a climate crisis, car ads should have been banned
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  Monbiot: Why are England’s water companies pumping out a tide of sewage?

  Because they can
• Dhara: The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth

  The real question is this: how do we transition to alternative economic paradigms founded on the reconciliation of equitable human well-being with ecological integrity?
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  Brown: Corporate Counterinsurgency

  Indigenous Water Protectors Face Off With an Oil Company and Police Over a Minnesota Pipeline
• Corbett: Minneapolis City Council Joins Opposition to Pipeline

  The resolution, which notes that Minneapolis declared a climate emergency in December 2019, clearly states the city's opposition to Line 3 and "calls on every elected leader with the authority to stop its construction to do so immediately."
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  Winslow: Stopping the Loggers on California’s North Coast

  Logging has begun in Jackson State Demonstration Forest, 48,000 acres of state owned redwood forestland in Mendocino County in Northern California
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  Fitz: Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction

  As progressives stand with those rejecting fossil fuels and nuclear power, should we despise, ignore, or commend those who challenge the menace to their homes and their communities from solar, wind and hydro-power (dams)?
• Mooney: The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems

  Mega-corporations are all set to walk away with the keys to global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year
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  Klare: Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths

  The Post-Petroleum Resource Race and What to Make of It
• Lohan: California Identifies 600 Communities at Risk of Water-System Failures

  A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them
• Moore: Climate-friendly farming strategies

  These techniques will improve the land and generate income for farmers
• Bittman: The True Costs of Our Cheap Food and the American Diet

  Growing food, or growing crops in order to sell them and make money became more important than growing crops to feed people
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  Cole: It Can be Done: California Briefly reaches 94.5% Renewable Electricity

  For just four seconds that day, the grid, which covers 4/5s of the state, reached 94.5% generation by green energy
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  Hightower: Don’t Let Wall Street Get Rich Off of Our Water

  Let’s begin to force a public discussion about this crucial question of environmental and existential ethics
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  Jorden: Goodbye Ayoloco: Iconic Mexican Glacier is Officially No More

  The glaciers are an important source of fresh water and climate regulation, and the gravity of the loss cannot be understated
• Williams: When Women Become Allies to Save Watersheds and Wildlife

  Young activists, fed up with ineffectual political policy, are using their bodies and agency to say “no more.”
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  Cole: Methane Menace and Global Heating

  Why President Biden is wrong and Fracking must be Banned
• Times: Fossil fuels cause several million deaths each year

  In 2018 alone more than 8 million people died from fossil fuel-related pollution, according to new research
• Uehlein: Earth Day, Labor, and Me

  The 40th anniversary of Earth Day provides us an opportunity to reflect on the “long, strange trip” shared by the environmental movement and the labor movement over four decades
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  Wilkins: 101 Nobel Laureates Urge World Leaders to ‘Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground’

  "Fossil fuels are the greatest contributor to climate change. Allowing the continued expansion of this industry is unconscionable."