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Opponents Of Quebec’s Arnaud Open-Pit Mine Face Threats, Hack Attacks
Opponents Of Quebec’s Arnaud Open-Pit Mine Face Threats, Hack Attacks Tensions are running high in la Belle Province as people wait for the government’s decision on opening a controversial new mine in northeastern Quebec. Opponents of the Arnaud mining project, a proposed open-pit mine inside Sept-Îles’ town limits, say they have been the targets of […]
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it. But the primary way we will experience climate change is through the water cycle – through droughts, floods, depleted rivers, shrinking reservoirs, dried-out soils, melting glaciers, loss of snowpack […]
Think About This On Your Next Commute: Traces of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague Found in NYC Subway
Think About This On Your Next Commute: Traces of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague Found in NYC Subway Think about this the next time you grip a New York City subway pole: A new study has found that 48 percent of all DNA on the subway’s surface “matches no known organism.” A study, published Friday by Cornell […]
Fracking Failure: Frackers In Pennsylvania Violate Health And Environmental Regulations On A Daily Basis
Fracking Failure: Frackers In Pennsylvania Violate Health And Environmental Regulations On A Daily Basis From the American Petroleum Institute’sclaim that fracking is “safely unlocking vast U.S. reserves of oil and natural gas” to Chris “Frack Master” Faulkner himselfinsisting “fracking isn’t contaminating anything,” the oil and gas industry constantly tells us that fracking can be done safely, despite plenty of evidence to the […]
‘The Drop in Oil Price Means We Need More Action on Climate Change Not Less’
‘The Drop in Oil Price Means We Need More Action on Climate Change Not Less’ This month, a powerful article in Nature highlighted yet again that most of the world’s oil, coal and gas needs to stay in the ground, if we want to prevent dangerous climate change. This is the “unburnable carbon” analysis that President Obama and Bank […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
Social Cost Of Carbon Drastically Underestimated: Report
Social Cost Of Carbon Drastically Underestimated: Report The U.S. government could be drastically underestimating how much climate change is going to cost us, according to astudy published by Stanford researchers in the journal Nature Climate Change. The researchers concluded that the Obama Administration is using a Social Cost of Carbon estimate that may be just one-sixth of the true […]
SUBURBAN SPRAWL DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ECOLOGICALLY DEVASTATING
SUBURBAN SPRAWL DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ECOLOGICALLY DEVASTATING As development gobbles up open space, conservationists take a fresh look at subdivisions with biodiversity in mind. Fort Collins, Colo., is a growing, vibrant college town with a typical American problem: Beyond its idyllic historic city center, cookie-cutter subdivisions are eating away at farm fields, ranches and […]
Experts Say That Battle on Keystone Pipeline Is Over Politics, Not Facts
Experts Say That Battle on Keystone Pipeline Is Over Politics, Not Facts WASHINGTON — In 2009, the Obama administration approved a 986-mile pipeline to bring 400,000 barrels of oil sands petroleum a day from western Canada to the United States. Almost no one paid attention. Construction on the pipeline, called the Alberta Clipper, was quietly completed last […]
Here’s Why Keystone XL Is the Wrong Choice for Our Nation
Here’s Why Keystone XL Is the Wrong Choice for Our Nation The new Republican majority in Congress wants to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline for dirty tar sands oil. President Obama announced he will veto bills that bypass the official review of Keystone XL. There are plenty of reasons to block these bills […]
An Unexpected Success Story Links Our Health to Wild Lands
An Unexpected Success Story Links Our Health to Wild Lands Environmental disasters caused by human folly are all too familiar. But what about the environmental serendipity? The unexpected stories where nature and humans co-exist harmoniously. They do happen, and some may be found close at hand by looking at your faucet and following the water back to its […]
“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 […]
