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European Union’s Imperial Overreach
European Union’s Imperial Overreach Exclusive: The European Union’s haughty and hasty expansion into low-wage Eastern Europe may be its undoing, as the Brexit vote shows popular resistance to the westward migration of workers that followed, writes Jonathan Marshall. While few analysts are putting it this way, the European Union suffers from a self-inflicted crisis of overexpansion […]
Toward a More Reflective Planet
Toward a More Reflective Planet CAMBRIDGE – The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago – a time when sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than they are now. Climate models have long struggled to duplicate those large fluctuations in sea levels – […]
Potash Price Surge Could Lead To Higher Food Costs For Billions
Potash Price Surge Could Lead To Higher Food Costs For Billions We are on the precipice of a food fight among 7 billion people, and potash will be right at the center of it. If you can add 200,000 people every day to the global population and account for a significant loss of farmland […]
Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate change, a ground-breaking scientific study has found. The broad valleys formed by rivers flowing from […]
Emerging threats of resource wars. U.S. House hearing
Emerging threats of resource wars. U.S. House hearing Goh Chun Teck, Lim Xian You, Sum Qing Wei, Tong Huu Khiem. 2011. Resource Wars. Players compete with each other for territories that generate resources such as coal, water, gold and gas. A Player can sell resources for money, which he can use to purchase even more […]
Southern California Time Bomb: The Ground Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Is ‘Rising And Sinking’
Southern California Time Bomb: The Ground Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Is ‘Rising And Sinking’ If you reside on the west coast, you are living on borrowed time. As you will see below, stress has been building up along the San Andreas fault for more than a century, and scientists tell us that southern California […]
‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video
‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video A new video released today by DeSmog Canada features an exclusive video interview with Harry Swain, chair of the federal-provincial panel tasked with reviewing the controversial Site C dam. “I think we’re making a big mistake, a very expensive one,” Swain says in […]
Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity – Here’s the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable
Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity – Here’s the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable Communities around the world are rewriting the rules of their economies and building something beautiful. plant in hands – grass background Photo Credit: Romolo Tavani/Shutterstock I am a Mexican immigrant and a senior at Columbia University who’s […]
High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report
High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report Chemicals from gas wells were discovered in biological samples drawn from residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, at levels as much as ten times the national averages, according to a new report. The study is the first to sample both the air near drilling sites and […]
Why Is The Weather So Crazy All Of A Sudden?
Why Is The Weather So Crazy All Of A Sudden? All over the planet, global weather patterns have gone completely nuts. Just over the past few days we have seen “life threatening” heatwaves, extremely dangerous wildfires, vicious tornadoes and unprecedented flooding – and that is just in the United States. And of course this is […]
Ice free Arctic could occur this year, warns expert
Ice free Arctic could occur this year, warns expert The last time the Arctic was ice-free was 100,000 years ago. © Svebor Kranjc / Reuters Sea ice in the Arctic could be a thing of the past, a leading scientist has warned. For the first time in 100,000 years the chilling landscape known for its snow-capped […]
California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore
California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore Water management is hardly progressive in California these days. Photo: roam and shoot/Flickr CC. If one more Californian tells me how “progressive” California is, I am going to scream. “Progressivism” is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems that were introduced to America by industrialization. […]
The Boiling Pot
The Boiling Pot On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper prices […]
