Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico Dam Cracks, Threatening Tens of Thousands
Puerto Rico is reeling from Hurricane Maria. Having just passed over the US territory – home to nearly 3.5 million American citizens – the category 3 hurricane has caused catastrophic flooding, knocked out electricity across the entire island, and killed…
McCain Goes After Climate Change-Denying Republicans
Scott Pruitt – the highly unqualified head of the EPA – remarked that it was “insensitive” to discuss climate change while Hurricane Irma bore down on Florida. A noted climate change denier, EPA head never wants to talk about climate…
Climate Chaos: Hurricane Irma Renders Barbuda Uninhabitable
This has been a horrifying season for natural disasters. The flooding in Houston displaced tens of thousands. In Southeast Asia, 41 million people have been impacted by record-shattering monsoon rains. Wildfires in Montana have made the air unhealthy for regional…
How You Can Help Those Displaced By Montana Wildfires
“Very challenging and unprecedented.” That’s how Governor Steve Bullock described the wildfires that have been terrorizing Montana for two months. Since flames first appeared in July, approximately half a million acres have been destroyed. Smoke has clouded over the state,…
In Flooded Texas, It’s All About Donald
Trump visited Texas Tuesday to view the damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey and – ostensibly – to offer comfort to those impacted by the worst flood that has hit the region in decades. But the embattled and deeply unpopular president…
Under Trump, USDA Censors Use Of “Climate Change”
In a horrifying signal of the Trump Administration’s willingness to censor scientific truths, internal emails circulating within the USDA indicate that staff have been told to eschew references to climate change and use “weather extremes” in its place. According to…
Impact Lab: Interview With Richard Weller, Author Of Atlas For The End Of The World
Join Key Elements Group LLC President and CEO Lynette Zimmerman for a discussion with Richard Weller, lead author of Atlas for the End of the World. Atlas for the End of the World is an inventive project that generates data…
Company Behind DAPL Spills Drilling Fluids in Ohio Wetlands
The Sierra Club Ohio has obtained confirmation of a horrifying toxic spill in Ohio that has dumped 2.5 million gallons of poisonous fracking fluids into wetlands around the Tuscarawas River and wetlands in Mifflin County. Called the Rover Pipeline, the…
Dakota Access Pipeline Will Only Create 35 Jobs
The euphoria among progressive activists, environmentalists, and indigenous tribes that arose after Obama halted the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline dissipated with the advent of the Trump Administration. Trump – whose general animosity toward facts extends to climate change…
Proposed Bill in Maine Would Protect Climate Deniers from “Discrimination”
Protection against discrimination is typically reserved for safeguarding individuals against prejudice directed at their immutable characteristics or religious beliefs. If one Maine lawmaker has it his way, however, self-serving ignorance could also become legally protected from discrimination. Larry Lockman –…
You Know, the Lemur with Big Eyes: Facial ID Software Could Help Endangered Primate
While some people look at facial recognition technology and see its potential for abuse in an Orwellian dystopia, some biologists see an effective tool for bucking the tide of declining animal population trends. Together with a team of computer scientists,…
Resurrection: Woolly Mammoth May Soon Walk the Earth Again
Harvard scientists may be on the verge of resurrecting the woolly mammoth – which disappeared more than 4,000 years ago from a combination of climate change and over-hunting. In advance of the American Association for the Advancement of Scientists (AAAS)…
Animal Cruelty: Indonesian Zoo Starves Sun Bears
Shocking footage from Indonesia has shown what activists claim are starved sun bears begging for food. The Bandung Zoo has a shady past when it comes to animal rights. Recently, zoo personnel gravely abused an elephant that went on to…
Rex Tillerson is Bad News for the Environment and Democracy
There are many appointees in Trump’s incoming cabinet that are woefully unqualified. His selections have only further underscored Trump’s own lack of competence at the job at hand. The reality star with a checkered past of sexual harassment has chosen…
Obama Moves to Protect Environment in Final Days as POTUS
The moment that Trump assumes the presidency is fast approaching, and the demagogic political neophyte has left us no reason to believe he’ll be a champion of the environment. He’s appointed Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, as Secretary of…
EPA Confirms: Fracking is Dangerous and Contaminates Drinking Water
As fracking companies were waging war on facts across the country, the EPA was quietly concluding its final study into the danger of hydraulic fracking. The verdict? It’s as terrible as we all thought. Dr. Thomas A. Burke – EPA’s…
2,000 Military Heroes Step Up for Standing Rock
In the latest development in the ongoing saga at Standing Rock – where indigenous communities have taken a stand against big interests forcing an oil pipeline through sacred lands, threatening the drinking water of nearby native communities – thousands of…
Police Assault Standing Rock Water Protectors
Indigenous protestors – also known as water protectors – currently struggling against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline were brutally assaulted over the weekend. At least 167 people were injured as police shot rubber bullets at activists’ heads and…
Federal Judge Lifts Ban on Dakota Access Pipeline in Blow to Activists
This Sunday, a federal court landed a blow to environmental activists and Native American protestors battling the Dakota Access Pipeline since May. The pipeline – which will stretch over four states from the Bakken oilfield in North Dakota to refineries…
Pipeline Security Resorts to Violence Against Native American Protesters
In shocking images broadcast across the internet this week, private security personnel working for the Dallas-based energy firm Energy Transfer Partners deployed dogs and pepper spray against Native American protesters attempting to block the construction of a controversial pipeline in…