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Tomgram: Michael Klare, Perpetuating the Reign of Carbon
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Perpetuating the Reign of Carbon Think of it as the uncertainty principle. By the nature of things, doubt, the unknown, and uncertainty are naturally part of the big picture in science, especially when it comes to creating “models” of the future. As Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway showed in their blockbuster book, Merchants […]
Todd River flowing, cattle stations cut off as rain drenches central Australia
Todd River flowing, cattle stations cut off as rain drenches central Australia The Todd River has started flowing in Alice Springs for the first time since April 2014 after heavy rain drenched central Australia. The river, which is usually a dry, sandy river bed, started flowing after parts of the catchment recorded more than 100 […]
RT trails Ebola’s path of devastation in Liberia
RT trails Ebola’s path of devastation in Liberia Behind the stark headlines of the Ebola outbreak, which has killed thousands of people in Western Africa, are endless tales of hope and courage as average people do what they can to help others. On March 31, 2014, the West African country of Liberia confirmed its first […]
New Research Links Scores of Earthquakes to Fracking Wells Near a Fault in Ohio
New Research Links Scores of Earthquakes to Fracking Wells Near a Fault in Ohio Not long after two mild earthquakes jolted the normally steady terrain outside Youngstown, Ohio, last March, geologists quickly decided that hydraulic fracturing operations at new oil-and-gas wells in the area had set off the tremors. Now a detailed study has concluded […]
Where Is the Political Leadership to Confront Climate Change?
Where Is the Political Leadership to Confront Climate Change? Abundant, cheap fossil fuels have driven explosive technological, industrial and economic expansion for more than a century. The pervasive infrastructure developed to accommodate this growth makes it difficult to contemplate rapidly shifting away from coal, oil and gas, which creates a psychological barrier to rational discourse […]
EU Banned Pesticides to Help Bees, But Now Other Bugs Are Invading
EU Banned Pesticides to Help Bees, But Now Other Bugs Are Invading The European Union has a bug problem. After regulators in late 2013 banned pesticides called neonicotinoids, linked in some studies to the unintended deaths of bees, farmers across the continent applied older chemicals to which many pests had developed a resistance, allowing them […]
For California Salmon, Drought And Warm Water Mean Trouble
For California Salmon, Drought And Warm Water Mean Trouble With record drought and warming waters due to climate change, scientists are concerned that the future for Chinook salmon — a critical part of the state’s fishing industry — is in jeopardy in California. by alastair bland Gushing downpours finally arrived in California last month, when December […]
“The Day When Change Will Come” – It’s Time To Break the Vicious Circle of Capitalism
“The Day When Change Will Come” – It’s Time To Break the Vicious Circle of Capitalism A man of the Co Tu nation prepares to fish in a river that likely supported humans long before historical records began. But this might be one of the last times. Small-scale, high-pollution gold mining is spreading across the […]
2015: The Year We Turn Away from Tar Sands
2015: The Year We Turn Away from Tar Sands In 2014 Naomi Klein popularized the term “blockadia” in her book This Changes Everythingusing the term as a sort of catch-all to describe the grassroots insurgency emerging across the globe in the face of extreme energy development. This past year also saw the continued desperate push by tar […]
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain?
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain? Walk the glaring streets of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley on a sun-soaked afternoon in a drought year, the dry, brush-covered mountains rising behind you, and it can be easy to feel that you’re in arid country. “Beneath this building, beneath […]
Ebola outbreak: Quarantine ‘just like a jail’ in Sierra Leone
Ebola outbreak: Quarantine ‘just like a jail’ in Sierra Leone For 18 days, Alieru Deen Bangura’s family has been quarantined in a slum in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown. As part of the West African city’s efforts to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the family lives under the watchful eye of armed guards 24 hours a […]
Quebec ice storm: Why it’s impossible to storm-proof the power grid
Quebec ice storm: Why it’s impossible to storm-proof the power grid The ice storm that left an estimated 155,000 Quebecers in the dark this weekend had echoes of the Great Ice Storm of 1998, which left millions of homes in Eastern Canada without electricity for weeks. Hydro-Québec restores power to most homes The power grid […]
Adelaide Hills bushfires: Crews racing to contain blaze before high temperatures hit
Adelaide Hills bushfires: Crews racing to contain blaze before high temperatures hit Hundreds of firefighters are racing to contain a blaze burning out of control north-east of Adelaide, with temperatures set to soar today. Authorities said more than 375 firefighters from South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales would work on securing the 240-kilometre perimeter […]
Lord Ridley: Make Mine A Large One!
Lord Ridley: Make Mine A Large One! Lord Ridley, the landed aristocrat and prominent climate denier, will start work this year on two new profitable opencast coal mines close to his Grade I listed stately home and acres of beautiful national park that make up his 8,500-acre estate. The Ridley-White family has owned the stunning Blagdon Estate in Northumbria since 1700, where […]
