Latest Ecology

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  Monbiot: Ash to Ashes

  Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues
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  Cole: Offshore Wind a “New Industrial Revolution”

  The costs of wind, both onshore and offshore, are falling rapidly
• Vallianatos: Farm Rot is Eating America Alive

  In this futile struggle against nature, farmers keep adding more of old sprays, and often replace old chemicals with newer more acutely deleterious materials
• Howden: To Avoid Boiling the Earth, we Need a New Agriculture

  Farming emits 1/3 of Greenhouse Gases
• Burrowes: Our Vanishing World: Rainforests

  In essence, you have a choice: understand and act on the crucial importance of rainforests before we destroy their integrity and lose them completely. Or help to accelerate the human rush to extinction as a consequence of failing to do so
• Carrington: Just 10% of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Cash ‘Could Pay for Green Transition’

  Redirecting small portion of subsidies would unleash clean energy revolution, says report
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  Hallinan: Rivers of Dust

  Water & the Middle East
• Khaikin: Resistance to Hydroelectric Dams in Mongolia

  This encroachment of heavy industry threatens the fragile balance of the Baikal and the river-systems that are connected to it
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  Prashad: As the Ocean Waters Rise, So Do the Islands of Garbage

  On 12 July 2019, a twelve-year-old girl from Gresik (Indonesia),...
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  Cole: Even Red States are going Solar

  Republican decision-makers increasingly see solar as just a good business investment that produces electricity more cost-effectively than coal
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  Monbiot: Carmageddon: it’s killing urban life

  Land Rover’s proposals that we use its SUVs for urban safaris shows how cars have been licensed to damage our lives
• Marlens: The Farms of the Future

  Farms of the future should be regenerative, diverse, accessible, community-oriented, places of celebration
• Beattie: Putting Values Into Action

  So, are we to assume these constituents would rather suffer respiratory conditions, heart disease, neurotoxicity, early death than endure view, sound, and the flicker of windmills?
• Dyke: ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself’

  The most effective guard against climate breakdown may not be technological solutions, but a more fundamental reimagining of what constitutes a good life on this particular planet
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  Monbiot: Saving the life in our seas

  Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?
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  Albert: Socialism: Ecology or Nothing

  This is the twentieth and last essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
• Hunziker: Silent Spring’s Encore

  Rachel Carson’s famous and brilliant book Silent Spring (1962), which literally ignited the environmental movement, has never been more relevant than it is today
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  Monbiot: Cars are killing us

  Driving is ruining our lives, and triggering environmental disasters. Only drastic action will kick our dependency
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  Cole: Costa Rica’s ambitious Decarbonization Program

  A Model for the US Green New Deal?
• 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
• Linn: Till the cows come home

  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
• 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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  Monbiot: Don’t Breathe

  Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?
• 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?