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There are five things each of us can do to recover a saner image of who we are, whether we think of ourselves as peace activists or not.
read moreThere are five things each of us can do to recover a saner image of who we are, whether we think of ourselves as peace activists or not.
read moreRecycling is an easy cop-out for governments and large corporations, but the truth is that we have to take very different action if we want to stop irreversibly poisoning the planet
read moreWednesday marked the first time that the U.S. government openly acknowledged and discussed the reality of chemtrails — or as they and their ilk call it, “geoengineering.”
read moreLast week, the White House released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a dire warning on climate change risks and impacts across the U.S.
read moreThe National Climate Assessment, released the day after Thanksgiving, offers motivation and opportunity to bring climate topics into the classroom at every grade level.
read moreG20 countries must take decisive, long-overdue action to cut emissions and end fossil fuel subsidies to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe.
read moreInterior secretary Ryan Zinke says he hopes new laws will end environmental reviews and allow ‘thinning’ of forests
read moreYeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to.
read moreAt a world gathering on climate change this weekend, nations will face a key political test: whether they can transcend the narrowness of nationalism in favor of cooperation. All eyes will be on the US and China.
read moreWe live in an ecosystem where plants and animals depend upon one another for survival.
read moreIn many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used.
read moreWalt Whitman saw trees — “so innocent and harmless, yet so savage” — as a wellspring of wisdom on being rather than seeming.
read moreIn a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.
read moreSettling into my airplane seat on the next leg of a long business trip, I heard a man say to his seat companion behind me, “I am so happy we live here.
read moreThis poem, Thanks, from W. S. Merwin, reminds me of the
last lines of Leonard Cohen’s song, Hallelujah
New York City, already a relatively sustainable town, could reach new green heights if a certain city lawmaker has his way.
read moreThe trash and toxic runoff are bad enough. They are killing off the tribe’s local fish population and medicinal plants.
read moreA recently published study has found that “[c]limate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate.”
read moreDonald Trump’s decision to send thousands of troops to the US-Mexican border to intercept migrants who intend to apply for asylum is not just a bald-faced political stunt — it is also illegal.
read moreThis is not intended to persuade or to convince, it is my voice and my experience and my truth.
read moreUsing a time-honored trick, a bipartisan congressional panel argues we should boost the president’s record defense bill even more
read moreInsurance giant IAG has warned a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could result in a world that is “pretty much uninsurable”, with poorer communities likely to bear the brunt of the effects.
read moreThe United Nations for some people conjure up images of a benevolent organization intended for the preservation of human life wherever conflict occurs, and of encouraging international cooperation and peace.
read moreTechnology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.
read moreThe United States and China may be on a collision course yet their presidents each underestimate the pain the other could inflict.
read moreNever before have so many people – 70 million – been forcibly displaced from their homes. Millions more have chosen to leave in search of a better life. And traditional politics have been thrown into disarray.
read moreIn Yellowstone National Park, warming has brought rapid changes.
Winters are shorter. Less snow is falling.
Summers are hotter and drier.
In a few decades, this iconic American landscape will not be the same
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has set an aggressive goal to achieve an 80 percent uptake rate among American children with two doses human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine by 2026.
read moreSocial unrest and famine, superstorms and droughts. Places, species and human beings – none will be spared. Welcome to Occupy Earth
read moreIn early September, the DOI quietly rescinded two memos that provided guidance on protecting vulnerable communities and Native American sacred sites.
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