Environment

In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama …

In today's On the News segment: Provision buried in the latest defense authorization bill would overturn ban on government propaganda against American citizens, Vermont becomes first state to ban …

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Wisconsin's farms are swiftly becoming part of a vast assembly line in the corporate race for the last fossil fuels.

One of the world's biggest environmental crimes has been more or less forgotten. This is part of our collective guilt as the world's ecosystem continues its accelerated collapse. But …

The people of Kivalina had reported the effects of warming temperatures, but had not received any concrete assistance to mitigate risks to their safety from erosion.

Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity Ramor RyanAK PressOakland, 2011  The Zapatistas have lingered in the imaginations of progressives and radicals …

In honor of Earth Day, we run an interview with Yves-André Wainright, who discusses ways that poor governance and the role of foreign donors have contributed to the country’s …

A recent study has found that, under certain conditions, the chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little …

Last week, President Obama proposed national guidelines on hydraulic fracturing. The technique, known as fracking, extracts natural gas from the ground by pumping fluid into the Earth. At the …