If We Dig Out All Our Fossil F...

Apr 24, 2015 by

[Translate]   Michael Greenstone   nytimes  THE UPSHOT World leaders are once again racing to avert disastrous levels of global...

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Oklahoma’s Options Now That St...

Apr 24, 2015 by

Oklahoma’s Options Now That State and Federal Scientists Confirm Big Earthquake Impact from Water Disposal

[Translate] environmental policy By Andrew C. Revkin   New York Times DOT Earlier this week, Oklahoma’s state geologist and state...

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Call for an End to Business as...

Apr 23, 2015 by

Call for an End to Business as Usual on Climate and Human Problems

[Translate] By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network  VIA CLIMATE PROGRESS The devastating effects of typhoons and other extreme weather...

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The ExxonMobil Explosion That ...

Apr 18, 2015 by

The ExxonMobil Explosion That Nobody Is Talking About

[Translate] The aftermath of an explosion at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance, California. NBC News/Screenshot by Sacha Feinman...

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The Big Answer to Wrangling Oi...

Apr 17, 2015 by

The Big Answer to Wrangling Oil Spills Could Be in This Tiny Mesh

[Translate] TAKE PART DAILY Inspired by a lotus leaf, researchers have come up with a potentially powerful solution to saving ocean...

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Could Seattle activists throw ...

Apr 15, 2015 by

[Translate] Greenpeace activists hung a red “The People vs. Shell” banner from the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig.   ...

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Investors Chip In as Renewable...

Apr 13, 2015 by

Investors Chip In as Renewables Rise Toward Record Level

[Translate]   By Tim Radford, Climate News Network  VIA TRUTHDIG     Power towers at a solar electricity facility in...

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Beneath the tar sands is even ...

Apr 13, 2015 by

Beneath the tar sands is even dirtier oil, and industry is salivating over it

[Translate] Shutterstock Tar Sands 2.0 By Nika Knight GRIST The price of crude oil has slumped to its lowest point in six years, and...

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Thousands March In Canada To C...

Apr 13, 2015 by

Thousands March In Canada To Call For Action On Climate Change

[Translate] by Katie Valentine  CLIMATE PROGRESS Canadians march for climate action in Quebec City on Saturday, April 11, 2015....

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Climate change: why the Guardi...

Apr 10, 2015 by

Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre

[Translate] CLIMATE CHANGE, KEEP IT IN THE GROUND! As global warming argument moves on to politics and business, Alan Rusbridger...

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What the Frack Is Happening? A...

Mar 30, 2015 by

[Translate] Fracking From the aggressive anti-fracking moves in Maryland to a statewide ban in New York, the anti-fracking movement...

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A $600-Million Fracking Compan...

Mar 24, 2015 by

A $600-Million Fracking Company Just Sued This Tiny Ohio Town For Its Water

[Translate] by Samantha PageTHINK PROGRESS The Slope Creek Reservoir in Barnesville, Ohio, provides water for at least two oil and...

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4 reasons why the Supreme Cour...

Mar 24, 2015 by

4 reasons why the Supreme Court’s mercury case is worth watching

[Translate] Shutterstock By Tom Donnelly GRIST This week, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Michigan v. EPA, an important...

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Earth at Risk in New Epoch Rul...

Mar 23, 2015 by

Earth at Risk in New Epoch Ruled by Destructive Humans

[Translate]   By Paul Brown, Climate News Network  VIA TRUTHDIG     A nighttime image compiled from satellite data shows many...

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Despite Known Risk of Spill, U...

Mar 23, 2015 by

Despite Known Risk of Spill, U.S. to Let Shell Drill in Arctic

[Translate] Posted on Mar 23, prostate  2015 David Astley (CC BY-SA 2.0) In spite of estimates of a 75 percent or greater chance of...

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The U.S. Just Got New Environm...

Mar 21, 2015 by

The U.S. Just Got New Environmental Rules For Fracking, And Republicans Are Freaking Out

[Translate] by Emily Atkin CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Richard Vogel On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management...

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Utility Company To Buy Coal Pl...

Mar 18, 2015 by

Utility Company To Buy Coal Plant Just To Shut It Down

[Translate] CLIMATE PROGRESS by Katie Valentine This June 27, 2013 file photo shows Duke Energy’s Crystal River nuclear power plant...

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America is literally on fire: ...

Mar 10, 2015 by

America is literally on fire: How out-of-control oil spills are destroying our population centers

[Translate] Disasters are raging with such force and regularity that firefighters have to give up. Welcome to the new reality David...

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California Orders Oil Companie...

Mar 5, 2015 by

California Orders Oil Companies To Stop Drilling Near Drinking Water Supplies

[Translate]   by Ari Phillips  CLIMATE PROGRESS A pumpjack operates on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, in Bakersfield, Calif. CREDIT:...

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To Drill or Not to Drill, That...

Mar 4, 2015 by

To Drill or Not to Drill, That Is the Question

[Translate] By Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch  VIA TRUTHDIG (NASA Goddard Photo and Video (CC BY 2.0)) This piece first appeared at...

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TransCanada Is Seizing People’...

Mar 2, 2015 by

TransCanada Is Seizing People’s Land To Build Keystone, But Conservatives Have Been Dead Silent

[Translate] by Josh Israel & Katie Valentine  CLIMATE PROGRESS For Julia Trigg Crawford, watching TransCanada construct the...

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Visions of a fallen world: Wha...

Mar 2, 2015 by

Visions of a fallen world: What our crowded, imperiled planet really looks like

[Translate] A new book skips over the statistics and gets right to the emotional core of overpopulation Lindsay Abrams  SALON.COM The...

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Seeing Is Believing as Scienti...

Mar 1, 2015 by

Seeing Is Believing as Scientists Trace Greenhouse Effect

[Translate] By Tim Radford, Climate News Network     The U.S. climate research facility on the North Slope of Alaska. (Jonathan...

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The Inside Story Of How Citize...

Feb 28, 2015 by

The Inside Story Of How Citizens United Has Changed Washington Lawmaking

[Translate] Ryan Grim   huffingtonpost.com Lobbyists and trade groups have pumped huge sums into the coffers of super PACs and...

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Health Concerns Mount After Re...

Feb 27, 2015 by

Health Concerns Mount After Refinery Explosion Coats California City With White Ash

[Translate] by Emily Atkin & Sacha Feinman CLIMATE PROGRESS The aftermath of an explosion at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance,...

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SHELL WITHDRAWS FROM LARGEST T...

Feb 25, 2015 by

SHELL WITHDRAWS FROM LARGEST TAR SANDS PROJECT YET

[Translate] by Ari Phillips CLIMATE PROGRESS Alberta tar sands, 2010. CREDIT: flickr/ NWFblogs Keystone XL is not the only deciding...

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Science’s embarrassing fossil ...

Feb 24, 2015 by

Science’s embarrassing fossil fuel problem

[Translate]   Alice Bell: Willie Soon has been criticised for taking money from the energy industry, cure but he’s more normal...

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Clinton Foundation Receiving M...

Feb 20, 2015 by

Clinton Foundation Receiving Millions of Dollars from Corporations That Want to Build Keystone XL

[Translate] News & PoliticsCould this be why Hillary Clinton has been curiously silent on the issue? By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet...

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Fracking Flowback From Califor...

Feb 19, 2015 by

Fracking Flowback From California Oil Wells Contains High Levels Of Carcinogenic Chemicals

[Translate] Fracking Water used in fracking is not disposed of in a cautious manner. By Mike Gaworecki / DeSmogBlog  VIA ALTERNET...

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DON’T “BREAK UP...

Feb 16, 2015 by

DON’T “BREAK UP” WITH FOSSIL FUELS: BIG OIL’S HILARIOUS ATTACK AD IS PROOF THEY’RE GETTING DESPERATE

[Translate] On Global Divestment Day, search the movement can no longer be ignored VIDEO Lindsay Abrams SALON.COM   The fossil...

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