Environment | "Global Possibilities"

TOXIC PESTICIDE APPROVED BY TR...

May 15, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

On May 5, more than 50 farmworkers outside of Bakersfield, California, were exposed to a highly toxic pesticide that apparently drifted from a nearby field….

KEYSTONE XL UPDATE

May 15, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

On Wednesday, May 3rd, several hundred Pipeline Fighters and landowners showed up in force to testify at the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s (PSC) 10-hour public meeting on TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline at the Holthus Convention Center in York, NE.

THE EMPIRE OF THINGS: AN ECOLO...

May 14, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

Is there a saving ecological response possible to the Empire of Things, the fevered consumerist trajectory traced by Frank Trentmann raging not only in shopping malls across America, but now in China and India?

TRUMP ORDER COULD OPEN UP AREA...

May 13, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] By Lawrence Carter and Joe Sandler Clarke, Energydesk,GREENPEACE.ORG | News Analysis In addition to Bears Ears and Grand...

Forest Service Ready to Approv...

May 12, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Environment The giant open-pit project will dig up 90,000 tons of ore daily, producing 1.25 billion tons of waste. By...

REX TILLERSON HAS BEEN MISLEAD...

May 12, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Environment In a 2013 interview, Tillerson made the false claim that there had “never been a verifiable case of...

FINLAND VOICES CONCERN OVER US...

May 12, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] New chair of Arctic council calls for Paris treaty on global warming to be respected amid fears of commitment downgrade...

ALL THE TREES WILL DIE, AND TH...

May 11, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Adam Rogers Science WIRED.COM The Los Angeles River in Long Beach, CAGetty Images The polyphagous shot hole borer, a...

TRUMP’S BOGUS REASON FOR...

May 11, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] By John Light / Moyers and Company VIA TRUTHDIG A light installation at the Eiffel Tower commemorated the...

SENATE KILLS METHANE REPEAL

May 10, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] A GOP resolution to repeal the Obama administration’s methane rule for public lands was torpedoed Wednesday by a...

REPORT REVEALS COAL MINING A M...

May 10, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] “Hungry Coal – Coal Mining and Food Security in Indonesia,” that shows coal mining is the main threat to Indonesian food...

Landscape Architecture in the ...

May 10, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] J.R. Taylor THEDIRT.ASLA.ORG Grant Park deck rendering / Smith Dalia They Turned the Front Lawn into a Welcoming...

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO KILL F...

May 10, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Environment Trump disagrees with majority of Americans, who are opposed to fracking and drilling on public lands. By...

TO SAVE THE HONEY BEE, RESEARC...

May 10, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Briefly Stuff that matters mushroom for improvement GRIST.ORG Bee populations have been in flux for the past decade....

EARTH COULD BREAK THROUGH A MA...

May 9, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] By Chelea Harvey / The Washington Post Rising ocean temperatures induced by climate change are altering global...

CHINA FINALLY HAS A PLAN TO SA...

May 9, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Earth & Energy FUTURISM Weiyi Zhu/Getty In Brief China, the world’s leading contributor of climate-changing...

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR THE PARI...

May 9, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] By GEORGE P. SHULTZ and TED HALSTEAD NYTIMES President Trump faces a choice that will echo across his presidency and...

EPA dismisses half of key boar...

May 9, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department are overhauling a slew of outside advisory boards that inform how their agencies assess …..