Latest Ecology
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Driving is ruining our lives, and triggering environmental disasters. Only drastic action will kick our dependency
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Milman: US Cities Burn Recyclables After China Bans Imports
In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste
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Groundwater contamination devastates a New Mexico dairy – and threatens public health
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Monbiot: Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no-deal Brexit
They want to tear up our green regulations so they can plunder and pollute the environment for profit
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Alperstein: The EPA Rule Change That Could Kill Thousands
Younger generations deserve to grow up protected from these harmful and deadly substances. The EPA wants to make mercury and air toxics deadlier again. We can’t let that happen
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Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?
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Keene: Why are We Still Logging Our Forests?
After 45 years of observing and evaluating federal logging, contemplating today’s climate science and considering what’s fair for all of us, I wonder — why are we still logging our woods?
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Essertier: “Henoko, the Latest Sacrifice Zone of the US-Japan Military Alliance”
For the last for 20 years the Uchinā people have successfully held their ground against Tokyo’s efforts to construct a base there
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Linstroth: Preventing Brazilian Indigenous Genocide and Protecting the Amazon
One of Bolsonaro's first official acts as a newly inaugurated president was doing away with demarcation of indigenous territories in Brazil. All of us living on this planet should be fearful of this act
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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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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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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
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Raskin: “Fuck Wine Grapes, Fuck Wines”
The Coming Napafication of the World
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With companies fighting reorganization, it’ll take a united front to get the private waste industry to clean up its act
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Ekwurzel: Wildfires Are Faster, Stronger, Deadlier
Interview on climate change
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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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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
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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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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
ZMag Ecology
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Engler: Destroying Civilization
Is it simply business as usual or a corporate conspiracy to destroy the planet? However one characterizes it, our planet is being cooked so already wealthy people can make even more profit
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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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Kelly: Fifteen Years of Pipeline Spills
5,475 days, 527 pipeline spills: that’s the math presented in a new report from environmental groups Greenpeace USA and the Waterkeeper Alliance examining pipelines
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Emanuele: Reflections From Standing Rock
On Monday, December 5, close to 1,000 veterans marched to the front lines of the barricades in a symbolic protest. Without question, the gesture was visually striking and significant, but it wasn’t why most of the veterans came to Standing Rock
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La Duke: Public Servants or Corporate Security?
So you joined law enforcement or the National Guard because...
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Polychroniou: Global Warming and the Future of Humanity
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale
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There are similarly devastating impacts of markets, including not only worsening economic meltdowns (e.g. 1998, 2000-01, 2008) but also the ideology now known as the financialization of nature, which is based on the view that a market problem, like the threat of extinction posed by poachers, can be treated best with a market solution
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Sturgis: Texas Billionaire Behind the Pipeline Standoff
Over the Labor Day weekend, security guards for a petro pipeline company used attack dogs and pepper spray against Native Americans resisting construction of a $3.8 billion pipeline through North Dakota, a project they say is desecrating land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux
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Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions,” and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb.”
Ecology Video
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Hurteau: Fueling Deadliest Blazes
100 years of fire suppression and human-caused climate change are fueling California's historic wildfires
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Scipes: Climate Change: Understanding and then Going “Outside the Box” for a Solution
From a talk at Open University of the Left, 3-18-2017, Chicago, Illinois
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Cohen: Global Warming is a Public Health Nightmare
Increased rates of asthma, infectious disease, and water contamination are some of the hazards faced by the global community
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Klein: Is capitalism driving climate change?
Interview on the link between capitalism and climate change
Ecology Audio
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Rasmus: Environmental Activists Discuss Sunday, Sept. 21 Demonstration & What Next
Jack Rasmus welcomes environmental activists, Michael Rubin and Glenn Turner, to discuss tomorrow’s major environment movement event
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Rasmus: Progress or Election Year Maneuver?
Jack Rasmus and guest, Steve Breyman, discuss this past week’s just released Obama/EPA proposals to reduce CO2 emissions from existing industrial plants in the US by 30% by 2030
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Rasmus: U.S. Climate Crisis Intensifies
Jack Rasmus welcomes guest, Jill Stein, Presidential candidate of the Green Party USA, to discuss President Obama’s just released, ‘US National Climate Assessment Report’
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Shiva: The Rights of Mother Earth
Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
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Trigona: Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk
Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk
Ecology Blogs
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Wilson: PRIMER: Revenue Insurance in the 2012 Farm Bill
PRIMER: Revenue Insurance in the 2018 Farm Bill This is...
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Wilson: PRIMER: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill
Primer: FARM JUSTICE PROPOPOSALS FOR THE 2018 FARM BILL FARM...
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: Where have all the fish gone? Have we reached the end of the line?
By 2048 we might have a world without seafood. Bluefin...
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“I’m used to seeing diamonds shiny and in a box.“...
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: Afghanistan’s Minerals: Hope or Despair?
Why we should view the discovery of Afghan minerals with...
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: Jeju Islanders fight for their lives
"I have been working for 30 years as a movie...
Ecology Books
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Hudson: Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change
'This is an excellent new work and a must read...
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: Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petroviolence
About the Book The recent escalation in the violent conflict...
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: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace
About the Book A leading voice in struggles for global...
