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How Corporate Greed Caused the Massive California Methane Leak
This natural gas leak isn't just an environmental disaster - it's an atmospheric catastrophe like we've never really seen before.
Yurok Tribe Adopts Ordinance Banning Frankenfish and GMOs
The Yurok Tribehas banned genetically engineered salmon and all Genetically Engineered Organisms.
Pastoralist Association Taming Climate-Related Conflict in Eastern Africa
As water scarcity exacerbates long-standing conflicts over resources, a group of elders works for lasting peace.
Eight Emerging Pathogens You Should Know About
These emerging trendsetters could pose huge human health risks, while research and development lag behind.
A Wild Liberty: The Sixth Mass Extinction
As flora and fauna continue their precipitous decline, geologists and ecologists are again looking at the geologic timescale.
William Rivers Pitt | 2016 and Better Days
You are the one you've been waiting for. You've been here all along.
Climate Activists Can Learn a Lot From Black Lives Matter
Changing anything means building a big, brash movement. And doing that means talking about people, not statistics.
Shifting the Terms of the Debate: How Big Business Covered Up Global Warming
The late Aaron Swartz wrote this entry in 2006 at the age of 19 for his blog.
Exxon’s Climate Cover-Up Gets Bigger: Documents Suggest All Major Oil Giants Have Lied Since 1970s
2015, the hottest on record, was also the year ExxonMobil was caught in a more than three-decade lie.
Arctic Methane Emissions Persist in Winter
Methane, a key greenhouse gas, is released from Arctic soils not only in the short summer period but during the bitterly cold winters too.