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Canada Is Trading Away Its Environmental Rights
Canada Is Trading Away Its Environmental Rights In 1997, Canada restricted import and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a suspected neurotoxin that had already been banned in Europe. Ethyl Corp., the U.S. multinational that supplied the chemical, sued the government for $350 million under the North American Free Trade Agreement and won! Canada […]
The state of our soil
The state of our soil Jointly published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and theInstitute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, the Soil Atlashighlights the current state of our soils and the ways in which we are draining this precious resource: “We are using the world’s soils as if they were inexhaustible, continually withdrawing from an account, but never paying in.” […]
Pesticide Free Farming
Pesticide Free Farming A revolutionary experiment in sustainable agriculture is showing impressive results in south India. Around two million farmers in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have ditched chemical pesticides in favour of natural repellants and fertilisers, as part of a growing eco-agriculture movement. The sustainable techniques are spread through a network of women’s […]
A Year Without the Colorado River, as Seen by Economists
A Year Without the Colorado River, as Seen by Economists Imagine if each tap that delivered water from the Colorado River – whether to a farm, a factory, or a home – suddenly went dry for a year. What would happen to the West’s economy? That’s pretty much the question a team of researchers at […]
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages On January 21, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) again displayed the same deception/incompetence that pervaded his book, The Greatest Hoax (2012). In this video segment (3:00-5:20), he presented a poster on the Senate floor that matches the image below from“Kyoto by Degrees,” an anonymous Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Opinion piece, June 21, 2005. Both contained […]
U.S. blizzard: New York braces for heavy snow as storms slam East Coast
U.S. blizzard: New York braces for heavy snow as storms slam East Coast ‘This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before,’ says NYC mayor Residents of the U.S. Northeast are girding for a “crippling and potentially historic” storm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine […]
Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, twice the size of Victoria, ‘melting from below’
Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, twice the size of Victoria, ‘melting from below’ Warm ocean water is melting one of the world’s biggest glaciers from below, potentially leading to a rise in sea levels, Australian scientists have discovered. Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis recently returned to Hobart from Antarctica, with a team of 23 scientists who had used […]
Shocking Images Of China’s Dire Pollution Problem
Shocking Images Of China’s Dire Pollution Problem China has some stunningly beautiful natural landscapes, but, as boredpanda.com explains, they may not count for much when, in other parts of the country, pollution runs totally unchecked. China is very close in size to the USA. Yet, as The Burning Platform notes, their population is the size of the entire Western Hemisphere, […]
MPs brand fracking ‘incompatible’ with UK climate targets
MPs brand fracking ‘incompatible’ with UK climate targets Fracking should be banned because it is incompatible with the UK‘s climate targets, according to the cross-party House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC). The committee’s report has been rushed out in advance of a series of parliamentary votes this afternoon on the government’s Infrastructure Bill. Ten MPs have tabled an amendment to the […]
Wood Pellets: Green Energy or New Source of CO2 Emissions?
Wood Pellets: Green Energy or New Source of CO2 Emissions? Burning wood pellets to produce electricity is on the rise in Europe, where the pellets are classified as a form of renewable energy. But in the U.S., where pellet facilities are rapidly being built, concerns are growing about logging and the carbon released by the combustion […]
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply—leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind. But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in fossil fuel use in energy production meant CO2 […]
David Cameron’s constituency safe from fracking as election looms – 200 MPs are not so lucky
David Cameron’s constituency safe from fracking as election looms – 200 MPs are not so lucky Half of prime minister David Cameron’s cabinet face having their water reserves fracked under the controversial Infrastructure Bill but it remains unclear if Cameron’s own Oxfordshire constituency would also be subject to fracking. More than 220 Tory and Lib Dem MPs […]
Oil-by-Rail Reality: Watch What Industry Does, Not What They Say
Oil-by-Rail Reality: Watch What Industry Does, Not What They Say “In the past month, there have been numerous public relations efforts suggesting that much is being done to improve oil by rail safety. Unfortunately, it seems these efforts will not involve much more than press releases and hollow promises.” Those words were first published on DeSmogBlog […]
Obama Vows To Fight For Climate Policies In State Of The Union But What He Didn’t Mention Was Just As Telling
Obama Vows To Fight For Climate Policies In State Of The Union But What He Didn’t Mention Was Just As Telling President Barack Obama could not have signaled more clearly in his 2015 State of the Union address that he intends to fight for his legacy on climate change in the face of a hostile, anti-science GOP-led House and […]
‘Strong correlation’ between quakes and fracking in Kansas – official
‘Strong correlation’ between quakes and fracking in Kansas – official Geologists in the state of Kansas now say that a recent string of mysterious earthquakes may have been caused by pumping chemicals into the ground as part of the controversial gas and oil extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Geologists in the state […]
