Latest Ecology

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  Monbiot: In Defence of Speciesism

  Source: The Guardian Though the protest was against me, I...
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  Goldfield: Hope of a sustainable future in West Virginia’s coal country

  An intimate portrait of West Virginia’s “coal country,” where locals plan for a sustainable future amid the devastation wreaked by the fossil fuel industry
• Ochenski: Trump dooms the future by gutting National Environmental Policy Act

  Last Friday the Trump administration decided to gut the law via administrative rules changes that will allow virtually unhindered development, resource extraction and pollution
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  Pizzigati: Carcinogens in Our Neighborhoods

  In Trump America, science is no match for ‘free market’ fundamentalists and CEOs chasing windfalls
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  Fang: The Pesticide Industry’s Playbook for Poisoning the Earth

  The pesticide companies have used a variety of strategies to shift the public discourse
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  Cole: Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S.

  Trump is one of a handful of significant trans-generational genocidal maniacs whose policies will kill millions in the future
• Gregory: Sowing division, reaping lives

  It’s textbook Institutional Racism. Did Trump say out loud, “I’m going...
• Wilson: Britain: wind surges, coal collapses, fossil fuel use nearly halves

  Showing that it is possible to fully decarbonise a large economy while remaining internationally competitive would send an important message to the world
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  Monbiot: Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet

  Scientists are replacing crops and livestock with food made from microbes and water. It may save humanity’s bacon
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  Monbiot: Life Enhancing

  Recharging nature recharges the human spirit. In 2020, we could all do with some of that
• Pearce: The natural solutions to climate change held in the ocean

  Protecting and restoring mangrove swamps, salt marshes, seagrass meadows and kelp forests would halt biodiversity loss and soak up carbon emissions
• Senanayake: The Threat to Life as We Know It: The View from Sri Lanka

  It was very clear what was important to me from the start: Nature. If you’re interested in something you learn about it. The more you know about it, the less it’s possible for you to compromise.
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  Falk: Bio-Ethical Crisis

  Food and agriculture provide the vital linkages between this search for better forms of coexistence between nature and human experience, what pre-modern society often achieved but lost with the advent of modernity
• Surin: Australia’s Big Smoke

  Informed Australians know it is futile to expect Scott Morrison and the coalition government to take any lead on environmental issues, even those with catastrophic outcomes
• Treat: What happened to the Energy Transition?

  Unions and climate activists need to organise and mobilise for public and social ownership of energy, with real democratic accountability
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  Glick: Roadshowing to Replace Rubber-stamping FERC

  We actively solicited ideas from people we met with about how a new FREC should be structured so that it is the kind of energy and electricity federal agency needed. We received over 80 specific ideas over the course of the trips
• Corbett: Most Damaging of All Trump-Era Policies

  "Let's call this what it is: an excuse to abandon clean air, clean water, and chemical safety rules."
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  Cole: “Catastrophic” Wildfires Threaten Sydney, Australia

  While Australia’s population of about 25 million is small and therefore its proportional contribution to global heating is also small, the country is especially vulnerable to the effects of burning fossil fuels
• Vallianatos: Growing Ecological Civilization in China

  I urged China to take the initiative in sponsoring a World Environment Organization for collective international activities for the transition of the world economy away from fossil fuels
• Shenker: My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon

  I was on an operation with the Guardians of the Amazon, indigenous people from the Guajajara tribe with one clear objective: to protect their land
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  Fitz: Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal

  Are GND proponents willing to consider the possibility that life would be better for all species, including humans, if corporations and governments are not allowed to increase energy production? If so, we might even save a few aquatic ecosystems
• Singh: Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050

  A new report has warned 300 million people are at risk from rising sea levels, with the most vulnerable populations concentrated in the Global South
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  Cole: The Carbon Dioxide Horror Show

  Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study
• Lerner: How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

  Audio from a meeting of recycling leaders obtained reveals how the soda giant’s “green” philanthropy helped squelch what could have been an important tool in fighting the plastic crisis
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  Monbiot: Our Once and Future World

  Let’s bring back Britain’s missing rainforests, and create national parks worthy of the name