It's the big question – perhaps the only one that truly matters right now: "Why is it that, despite the continuing work of animal protection, conservation and ecological groups,…
Well, everything seems to be back to normal on Wall Street after a rocky start to the week. So what happened? Are we OK? We’re certainly back to “normal” if your…
On December 25th, 1991, the hammer and sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union came to an end. The communist system that had controlled much of the world…
In a sane world, it would be headline news. Everything else would immediately come to a screeching halt to make way for a massive, worldwide attempt to turn things around. (Of…
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
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To criticize this book, as many have done, for not offering solutions is like complaining to the crew of The Titanic that they haven’t told us what we can do to help keep the ship afloat.
That’s because the new “green” alternatives aren’t really doing anything to cut back on our consumption of energy. Rather, as with most forms of “progress”, they enable more people to become consumers, and we all end up simply consuming more energy than ever.
In a loose comparison of President Obama to the legendary King Canute, who was expected by his courtiers to be able to turn back the tides,…
Two weeks ago, we noted that the extinction disaster now facing the planet could be stopped and even turned around “with a relatively small commitment of…
Proverbially, the world ends either with a bang or with a whimper. But last night we learned that it will end, instead, in silence.
In a debate that was all about how we relate to the rest of the world, neither President Obama nor Gov. Romney ever mentioned the global devastation being wrought by climate change, the mass extinctions that are unfolding, the multiple pandemics that can break loose at any moment, the poisoning of the land, the oceans and the air we breathe, or any of the other enormous threats we face.
Before and after on the Horseshoe Reef area of the Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef – the largest and most iconic coral reef…
A 60-second video to show to anyone who doesn’t understand what the Sixth Great Extinction means … to them: [readon] This and other great videos on…
In the 1970s, psychologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross explained that when we suffer the death of a loved one, we go through five stages of grief. This process…
Another voice joins the chorus of scientists warning that it’s too late to turn back the tide of climate change. The train has left the station,…
The rate at which fish are going extinct in North American rivers and lakes is rising dangerously and may soon double again, according to a study…
Part of a larger graphic by the New York Times and the International Union for Conservation of Nature Nearly 20,000 species of animals and plants around…
Is the arrival of the doom-laden, rogue planet Melancholia, in last year’s movie of the same name, a metaphor for what’s happening as climate change overtakes the Earth?
From pristine forest to world-polluting wasteland – Photos by Peter Essick, 2009 James Hansen, the NASA scientist who’s considered the leading expert on climate science has…
All life is inter-related, so whatever we’re doing to each other, to the other animals and to the Earth, we’re inevitably doing to ourselves.
The folks at Frugal Dad have produced an infographic showing how our food supply is governed by a small handful of huge companies. They wield enormous influence.
Bioterrorism expert Dr. Thomas Inglesby is alarmed by a team of scientists meddling with the H5N1 bird flu virus and wanting to publish their results.
Scientists say they now know for sure what’s responsible for the death of millions of bats in North America. A fungus discovered in 2007 is responsible for white-nose syndrome, a devastating infectious disease that causes bats to wake up early from hibernation, fly around and then starve, freeze or die of dehydration.
A new study, funded and supervised in part by climate skeptics, confirms what most scientists have been concluding for a long time: the planet is heating up.
Three weeks ago, the U.N. warned that avian flu is back on the rise after a five-year decline. A new strain of the H5N1 virus had appeared in China and Vietnam, prompting the alarm.
Concerns are growing that pet food may be subject to even worse contamination than human food.
It’s become routine, food recalled from grocery stores for fear of contamination. This time, it’s 36 million pounds of turkey taken off the shelves.