Latest Ecology
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Jerolmack: Ending Fracking by 2035
The planet-destroying reactionaries steered the conversation onto their turf and away from the brutal reality that if we want to survive as a species, one small thing we must do is stop fracking
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Cole: Greening Earth and creating Jobs
Biden to slash Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Extend Wind, Solar Credits
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Lee: Residents of Chicago’s Southeast Side Are Rising up Against Polluters
Residents are tired of being the city’s dumping ground, so they are fighting back
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Ludwig: Activists May Be Winning Battle Against Environmental Racism
Residents near the proposed site already live with more toxic air pollution than 99 percent of the United States
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Corbett: Lawmakers Urge Biden to Block Massive Petrochemical Complex in Cancer Alley
"This disastrous project is an affront to environmental justice and contrary to your goals to reduce pollution in frontline communities."
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Stancil: Democrats Unveil ‘Build Green’ Infrastructure and Jobs Act
Sen. Ed Markey called the bill "our opportunity to invest in a clean energy revolution across our country, transform our transportation sector to be climate-smart, and create millions of good-paying union jobs at the same time."
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Koehler: Growing Up Ecologically
Deb Haaland brings a different set of values, and a different understanding of Planet Earth, into the game
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Cole: Coal, Gas vastly Over-priced in Bubble that could Burst
The Biden administration needs to take account of these findings to protect Americans from this de facto bubble and to move even more quickly to wind, solar and batteries
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Manjee: Hunger strike against General Iron ends with protests outside Chicago mayor’s home
“The people deserve clean air. Biden spoke about environmental justice and we haven’t seen any action yet. We, the people, will be heard. We, the people, will win.”
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Corbett: Call for Rapid Phaseout of Fracking in Pennsylvania
"Pennsylvania's children should not be used as laboratory rats," said biologist Sandra Steingraber, who called fracking "an uncontrolled human experiment" that involves "toxic exposures."
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Tokar: 25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
This technology has failed to demonstrate any consistent advantages for crop yields or food quality, but has helped drive an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power in the global seed and agrochemical sectors
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Lobet: California’s Small Towns Ready to Fight Big Oil Over Air Quality
After organizing for three years, Lamont and Arvin, two rural communities in the heart of California’s oilfields have won a direct say in reducing the air pollution from oil, gas and agriculture production
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First-Arai: Biden Could Hire Jobless Oil and Gas Workers to Plug Abandoned Oil Wells
There are 3.2 million abandoned oil and gas wells across U.S. land and waters, responsible for emitting 281 kilotons of methane in 2018 — or the equivalent of burning through 16 million barrels of crude oil
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Koehler: Windmills: The New Scapegoat
The cornerstone of every social structure is its belief system, and those who control and benefit the most from the system have one primary job: Keep its myths and scapegoats viable
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Moore: The Chicago Plant That Sparked a Hunger Strike amid Environmental Racism Claims
“If we need to put our lives on the line, we do it because it’s for our current generation, our generation to come, and our ancestors.”
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Quaranda: Biden’s EPA Nominee Must Act on Forests to Be an Environmental Justice Champion
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Zhang: Fossil Fuel Pollution Caused Nearly 1 in 5 Premature Deaths in 2018
“There’s a vaccine for the 8.7 million deaths caused each year by air pollution from fossil fuels. That vaccine is called solar panels and wind turbines”
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Camp: It’s Now or Never — We Stare Into the Abyss
Despite millions of years of finding ways to survive, these species failed to outlast that most destructive force — unfettered capitalism
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Landis: Biden’s climate orders
The Biden administration’s recent executive orders on climate action and environmental protections at first glance may inspire hope. Digging deeper, it becomes evident they lack substance
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Calik: Is the pandemic an opportunity to shift from oil to greener energy?
It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic to consider the transition to alternative energy sources for the benefit of future generations
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Nader: New Auto Safety Report Demands Biden Strengthen Federal Programs Now
Biden promises a New Day from Trumpism. Let’s see if he and his team can provide America with a New Day of Public Safety from callous corporatism on the nation’s roadways
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Archambault: Biden Canceled Keystone XL. Indigenous Leaders Demand Same for DAPL
"The best thing that he can do is drop the appeals to this and stop the oil from flowing now.”
ZMag Ecology
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Tokar: 25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
The book, Seeds of Power, offers important insights on the complex dynamics of power and compliance and how they can play out in a broad national context
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Avery: Human Society And The Biosphere
According to a recent United Nations report, more than a million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction because of human activities
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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
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Marlens: The Farms of the Future
The farms of the future should be regenerative, diverse, accessible, community-oriented, places of celebration
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Gedicks: Brazilian Tailings Dam Disaster: Is Wisconsin Next?
On January 25, 2019, a 28-story high tailings dam in Brumadinho, in southeastern Brazil failed, releasing almost 3 billion gallons of sludgy mine waste
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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
Ecology Video
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Ocasio-Cortez: AOC Explains Why the Green New Deal Is Necessary
A look at the tenets of the Green New Deal and how important they are especially after the winter storm in Texas
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Ford: If We Don’t Protect Nature We Can’t Protect Ourselves
We are facing an emergency resulting from our toxic economic...
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Bees: Taking flight for all living things
The Birds and The Bees PSA was created by concerned citizens as an act of free speech
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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
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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: Afghanistan’s Minerals: Hope or Despair?
Why we should view the discovery of Afghan minerals with...
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...