Environment

Yes, there are profiteers positioned to make fortunes off of the misery of climate change. Read about the details in “Windfall: The Blooming Business of Global Warming.”

The next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due at the end of March, and according to the Associated Press, we shouldn't expect good news, and …

A new expose by Mother Jones magazine may shock anyone who drinks out of plastic bottles, gives their children plastic sippy cups, eats out of plastic containers, or stores …

Reclus believed that solutions to ecological crises must involve restoring balance, equality, and a sense of interrelationship between humans and other humans, and between humans and the biosphere.

Corporations and private intelligance firms are spying on whistleblowers, activists and journalists, but is anything being done to hold them to account?

The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.

Avner Offer, an economic historian describes neoclassical economics as a “just-world theory,” one that posits that not only do good people get what they deserve but those who suffer …

Paul Krugman: My quick verdict remains the same as it was from the beginning: this was a plan that did considerable economic good, but also considerable political harm.

Hundreds of students demand President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline deal, but Obama has already fast tracked the southern half of the pipeline which is currently delivering Canadian …

How long can Monsanto ignore the mounting actual scientific evidence that their technology is not only failing to live up to its promises, it's putting public health at risk?