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Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth “I Said Why? They Said They Didn’t Know” Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald […]
Puerto Rico: Hurricane destroyed wind, solar. Plus five months on, 15% still blacked out.
Puerto Rico: Hurricane destroyed wind, solar. Plus five months on, 15% still blacked out. In South Australia, when the lights went out, Olympic Dam took two entire weeks to get operational again. Spare a thought for those in Puerto Rico. Right now, five months later, and one in 6 still don’t have electricity. That’s five […]
The Beast from the East and European Energy Security
The Beast from the East and European Energy Security European energy security is a subject I return to time and again normally prompted by some kind of event. This time it is severe cold weather and snow that has spread from Siberia over the whole of North and Western Europe, rather late in the season, […]
Federal Judge Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Installation, But Photos Show Damage Already Inflicted
Federal Judge Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Installation, But Photos Show Damage Already Inflicted There was an eerie stillness along the route of the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin the day after a federal judge halted work on the pipeline. A temporary injunction was granted two weeks after groups opposed to the pipeline had their […]
“Communications Are Down”: Massive 7.5M Quake Cripples Papua New Guinea
“Communications Are Down”: Massive 7.5M Quake Cripples Papua New Guinea Several major oil and gas operators were forced to shutter operations on Monday after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea’s energy-rich interior, causing landslides and cutting off communications, per Reuters. The tremor hit in the rugged, heavily forested Southern Highlands about 350 […]
Globalization’s Deadly Footprint
Globalization’s Deadly Footprint That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might. This is 16 percent of all deaths worldwide – 3 times more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and 15 times more than all wars and […]
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe? Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by […]
Waiting for the Debris Flows
Waiting for the Debris Flows In J.M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, his characters sit around in an isolated colonial fort in a nameless desert country, awaiting their destiny – an invasion of the barbarians. The novel concerns its characters’ slow realization of their complicity, as agents of the Empire, in their fate. Something […]
Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe
Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe Last week my newly adopted home of Washington, D.C. had two back-to-back days of summer in the middle of winter. The first day the temperature reached 78 degrees (when the high is normally 48 degrees). That was a new record. The next day the high was 82 degrees (normally 49 […]
“What Just Hit Us?” – Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed
“What Just Hit Us?” – Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed Following “strained” magma chamber concerns at Yellowstone, Bay Area residents have grown increasingly concerned this week as a swarm of well over 50 earthquakes has struck in recent days… Culminating in at least 32 quakes in the last 24 hours as […]
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity Photo by Becker1999 | CC BY 2.0 Evincing an almost unbelievable ignorance of environmental science, last week Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters “we know humans have most flourished during times of warming trends. So I think there are assumptions made that […]
Japan Erects Huge New Roof Above Crippled Fukushima Reactor
Japan Erects Huge New Roof Above Crippled Fukushima Reactor In what the Japanese press heralds as an important step to safely removing all the radioactive material left inside the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant’s ruined reactors, the Japanese utility in charge of cleaning up the site has finished installing a roof over reactor No. 3. The […]
State of emergency, child missing amid Ontario floods
State of emergency, child missing amid Ontario floods Brantford state of emergency: HIGHLIGHTS, must-see visuals of ice jam Thursday, February 22, 2018, 7:34 AM – Wednesday was marked by flood crises in parts of southern Ontario, particularly the Grand River, where flood warnings were still in effect for much of its watershed Thursday. One person […]
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon pollution in Pennsylvania
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon pollution in Pennsylvania Methane leaks in the state’s oil and gas industry equal 11 coal-fired power plants. FLARING TAKES PLACE AFTER A GAS WELL HAS BEEN DRILLED AND BEFORE IT IS PUT INTO OPERATION. CREDIT: CAROLYN COLE/L.A. TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES The evidence is now […]
