Alaska’s Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded History
“Even if we can’t escape its consequences, it is not too late to escape the mindset that brought us here.” —Alice O’Keeffe, reviewing This Is Not...
PG&E Transmission Line May Be Tied to Disastrous Butte County Fire
PG&E has informed state regulators that it experienced an incident early Thursday on a major electrical transmission line at a remote site in Butte County...
Valve Turners on Trial: Judge Acquits Three Climate Activists Who Shut Down Tar Sands Pipelines
By MARK HAND A month before the 2016 election, anti-pipeline activists staged an unprecedented coordinated action to shut down the flow of oil from Canada...
Can climate change cause earthquakes ?
There is growing concern of the possibility of a link between earthquakes and intense weather. On September 6, 2018 a magnitude-6.6 quake struck the northern island of Hokkaido,...
200 stars urge ‘serious’ action on climate change in letter to Le Monde
Two hundred of the world’s most prominent artists and scientists signed an open letter in French daily Le Monde on Monday calling for urgent political...
UNESCO gives sustainable development a boost; designates 24 new biosphere reserves
Protecting mangroves, tropical rainforests and other biodiversity hotspots, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) bumped up its World Network of Biosphere Reserves...
North metro Denver groundwater contaminated with PFCs is flowing into a drinking-water system that supplies 50,000 residents
Water and Sanitation District tests revealed elevated PFCs, will they have to rely on the charity of telsa instead of the EPA ?
‘He’s a political prisoner’: Standing Rock activists face years in jail
The extraordinary Native American resistance effort may have faded from the headlines but the US government continues to prosecute activists, who say it is destroying lives
Why Climate Change is a Security Matter
On a satellite map of Mali, the Inner Niger Delta looks like a giant green smudge on a beige, sandy background. It is remote, remarkable...
Ozone hole re-opening: China insulating chemical said to be source of rise
Cut-price Chinese home insulation is being blamed for a massive rise in emissions of a gas, highly damaging to the Earth's protective ozone layer. The...