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Thoughts on Chemical Dispersant
First I will mention that this is coming after a lifelong interest in all things ocean, a BS and 3 years of Graduate School in Marine Biology, followed by making films in the ocean for over 35 years....
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Facing Up to Climate Change. Or Not.
Blue-green algal bloom. Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma is one of the most prominent climate change deniers in the U.S., and a frequent critic of the...
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New EPA Rule Targets Interstate Air Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants
Ken Lund/Creative Commons The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday a new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to improve air quality for 240 million Americans by significantly...
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End of an Era
5:57 a.m. EDT: Space shuttle Atlantis makes a pre-dawn landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center after completing 200 Earth orbits, and ending the program's 135th and final flight. Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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More Accurately Assessing of the Social Cost of Carbon
Oil refinery on Puget Sound. Credit: Walter Siegmund A report released in July by the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Law Institute on the “social cost of carbon” identifies weaknesses...
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Food Insecurity: A Global Map of Food Price Pressure Points
Food prices have hovered near an all time peak since late 2010 sending tens of millions of people into poverty. After decades of steady progress in the fight against hunger, the number of people...
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Stricter Environmental Regulations Called for in Kingdom of Bahrain
Bahrain's beaches are at risk from the environmental impact of rapid growth. Photo courtesy of Bahrain Tourism Board. A series of talks among scientists, business and economic leaders, politicians,...
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Sharks Save Humans
Governments and institutions spend billions researching deforestation, excessive combustion of fossil fuels, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and CO2 emissions. They measure carbon footprints, and the...
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Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Photo: Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica In a first, federal environment officials recently scientifically linked underground water pollution with...
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North Carolina Legislature Bans Sea Level Rise Due to Global Warming
The Republican-majority North Carolina legislature today passed a bill placing a 4-year ban on acknowledging rising sea levels due to global warming when considering coastal development within the...
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Countries Fail to Protect Endangered Species From Illegal Trade
World Wildlife Fund Produces Wildlife Crime Scorecard Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and African elephant (Loxodonta africana) Africa © naturepl.com / John Downer / WWF-Canon Poor performances by...
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20 New Biosphere Reserves Added
Wakatobi, Indonesia. Photo UNESCO © LIPI, The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), which met in Paris from 9 to 13 July, has added 20 new sites,...
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Democracy Works for Endangered Species Act
By Carol Clark, Emory University The Bald Eagle, a living symbol of democracy as the national bird of the United States, was on the "threatened" list for the lower 48 states until 2007. Photo by...
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Organized Crime and Tropical Deforestation
Organized Crime Trade Worth over US$30 Billion Responsible for up to 90 Percent of Tropical Deforestation A new report spotlights almost 30 ways of procuring and laundering illegal timber compromising...
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Climate Change: In the Twilight Zone
IRIN reporter Jaspreet Kindra was in Doha, Qatar, to cover the humanitarian implications of the UN climate change conference. She filed this personal account of the talks. Covering the UN climate...
View ArticleKerry Urges Protection for Antarctic Waters
In his first comments about protecting the world’s oceans since becoming Secretary of State, John Kerry spoke to a Washington reception hosted by The Pew Charitable Trusts and urged creation of what...
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Time to Separate Weather Resilience From Climate Change
By David Schultz, University of Manchester and Vladimir Janković, University of Manchester Photo: NOAA The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest climate change report has made it...
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California Governor Jerry Brown Signs Nation’s First Statewide Plastic Bag...
By Californians Against Waste California Governor Jerry Brown today signed legislation enacting the nation’s first statewide ban of single-use plastic shopping bags. “Forty years ago there were no...
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Learn to Live with Wildfires
By Tim Radford As climate change and population growth increase the risks from wildfires, researchers warn that we must co-exist and deal with the danger as we do with earthquakes, hurricanes or...
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Divestment Movement Wins – California Bill Forces Public Pensions to Drop Coal
By Jon Queally Common Dreams New law affecting nation’s two largest publicly-held funds championed as demonstration of strength of global efforts to defund dirty fuels Governor Brown gives remarks on...
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