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Experts Make Case for Letting Canada’s Wildfires Burn
Experts Make Case for Letting Canada’s Wildfires Burn Fires ‘reset the landscape to be less flammable,’ say researchers. As climate change is fingered as a catalyst driving the early rash of forest fires across northern and western Canada, experts say the most prudent approach at this stage is to, whenever possible, let the fires burn. Western Canada […]
Burning down the house
Burning down the house Today is World Population Day (July 11) Picture the street where you live. Now imagine that a building in your neighborhood bursts into flame and burns to the ground. Day after day, the calamity is repeated. With safety and livelihoods at risk, people begin to argue about the best way […]
Shell’s Renewed Arctic Drilling Campaign Faces Yet Another Setback As Key Ship Forced Back To Port
Shell’s Renewed Arctic Drilling Campaign Faces Yet Another Setback As Key Ship Forced Back To Port Is Shell finally “Arctic Ready” after its doomed 2012 campaign? The company is set to begin drilling in the Arctic within the week, and it’s already not looking good. The MSV Fennica, an icebreaker vessel bound for the Chukchi Sea, had barely left […]
In Films About Climate Change, the Medium is the Wrong Message
In Films About Climate Change, the Medium is the Wrong Message If you’d like, I’m what you’d call an ex-(aspiring) filmmaker, an early vanguard of what promises to be, in one way or another, an eventual mass exodus from the film and television industries. I won’t go into my reasoning behind film and television’s future […]
Climate Summit of the Americas begins in Toronto
Climate Summit of the Americas begins in Toronto Kathleen Wynne, Al Gore to speak at conference Protesters blocked a downtown intersection with yarn amid a demonstration outside a major climate-change conference in downtown Toronto on Wednesday. The demonstration shut down the intersection of Front and York Streets, outside the Fairmont Royal York, where the two-day Climate Summit […]
A Clash of Green and Brown: Germany Struggles to End Coal
A Clash of Green and Brown: Germany Struggles to End Coal A recent battle over imposing a “climate fee” on coal-fired power plants highlights Germany’s continuing paradox: Even as the nation aspires to be a renewable energy leader, it is exploiting its vast reserves of dirty brown coal. The hole in the landscape that opens up […]
Wilderness Corridors: Agenda 21 Under A New Name
Wilderness Corridors: Agenda 21 Under A New Name When it comes to people the government fears the most, those who live in rural areas must be somewhere near the top of the list. Not that there’s anything wrong with this particular group of people. It’s just that they’re a demographic that the government often struggles […]
Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing
Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing Health authorities advise caution due to smoke from hundreds of wildfires across B.C. Smoke from wildfires in the Interior of British Columbia blankets the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. Health officials in the province have issued air quality warnings as a result of the fires. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) […]
Lab rats and the corruption of how we count
Lab rats and the corruption of how we count There’s an old joke about lab rats in which the teller says he or she secretly suspects that all lab rats are prone to cancer and so all research about the risk of cancer in humans based on tests in rats is likely useless. The Committee for […]
Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture
Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture An Insider’s Story Because of Japan’s unconscionable open-ended new secrecy law, it is very likely journalism in the nation has turned tail, scared of its own shadow. Nevertheless, glimmers of what has happened, of what is happening, do surface when brave people come forward. On May 22nd 2015 Hiromichi Ugaya, a […]
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems One of the best ways to address climate change To environmental activist Bill McKibben, it’s all about math. The planet has warmed 1 degree Celsius over the past few decades and is on track to rise another 4 to 5 before the end of the century. […]
Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?
Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene? “Far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth’s climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.” “Human civilization developed during the Holocene (the past 12,000 years). It has been warm enough to keep ice sheets off North America and Europe, but cool enough for ice […]
Two Startling Victories for Global Sanity in One Week
Two Startling Victories for Global Sanity in One Week Austerity doesn’t work. Dutch judge: Citizens are right, slash carbon emissions. Two remarkable developments in the past week that could have a significant impact in many countries are worth a lot more attention in Canada and the United States. First, a major research document published by five top […]
