Climate Crisis

Leaders in the climate justice movement say it is time to start leveraging activists' commitment against the greatest crisis humanity's ever faced.

Three quarters of a billion people will almost certainly run low on water in just the regions who's rivers are supplied with water from the glaciers in the Himalayas.

Religious fundamentalists on the Texas Education Agency's textbook review panels could set a new national standard.

Resistance continues to win real victories given the fertile environment created by a government that cannot respond to popular demands for a fair economy and participatory democracy.

Students at Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U) show connection between climate crisis and global human rights violations through provocative art exhibit and demand change in school investments.

Subhankar Banerjee: The Obama administration's focus on oil extraction and emphasis on fracking is not addressing climate change.

Subhankar Banerjee: The media has utterly failed its responsibility to inform the public of the link between climate change and worsening natural disasters.

McKibben argues that Obama's pending decision on whether to approve or reject the Keystone XL's construction is a historic opportunity.

The long-awaited Environmental Defense Fund-sponsored fracking fugitive methane emissions study is finally out. Unfortunately, it's another case of “frackademia.”

Tthe 485-mile southern leg of Keystone XL will give TransCanada strategic access to these US coastal ports.