Now’s a Great Time to Become a Backyard Naturalist — Here’s How
Connecting with nearby nature can give people a much-needed boost — and help save wildlife, too.
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1 Year Since Julian Assange’s Arrest: A Panel Discussion
A panel discussion marking one year since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and arrested by British police. Assange is fighting extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison on the first-ever charges of espionage for publishing truthful information in the public interest.
Read More The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
In a system where sociopaths are rewarded with wealth, and where wealth equals power, we naturally find ourselves ruled by sociopaths. They manipulate our faulty perceptions of objective reality to amass wealth and power, which they use to grab more.
Read More 16 Teachings from COVID-19
Corona holds a mirror that reflects our relationship with ourselves, with the Earth, with each other and with the broader systems we live in.
Read More Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams weaves together in the face of today’s broken world.
Read More Ban Wildlife Markets to Avert Pandemics, Says UN Biodiversity Chief
Warning comes as destruction of nature increasingly seen as key driver of zoonotic diseases
Read More After the Coronavirus, Two Sharply Divergent Paths on Climate
Some policy experts are optimistic that victory over the coronavirus will instill greater appreciation for what government, science, and business can do to tackle climate change. But others believe the economic damage caused by the virus will set back climate efforts for years to come.
Read More Will Covid-19 spur a Peoples’ Bailout for the World’s Poorest?
The question is whether Covid-19 will awaken us to the stark inequalities of our world, or does it simply represent a new cause of impoverishment for the vast swathes of humanity who have long been disregarded by the public’s conscience?
Read More CORONAVIRUS: How Did it Really Start & How Do We Stop it From Happening Again?
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Read More Empty Labs, Abandoned Research: Coronavirus Puts Science on Hold
In the two long weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, research into our warming climate has been put on hold. Research trips are getting scrapped or postponed, experiments are being cut short, and scientists are worrying that the upheaval will cut their funding.
Read More Climate Grief: How We Mourn a Changing Planet
The enormous transformations to our planet from climate change can have powerful effects on our emotions, making us grieve for what is lost.
Read More US Escalates Warmongering Against Venezuela Because Of… Drug Trafficking?
The Trump administration is sending Navy ships to patrol Venezuela, the latest escalation against the government targeted by an aggressive hybrid US regime change intervention.
Read More Stopping Animal Abuse will Prevent Future Pandemics, says Leading Scientist
“By creating distressed and sick animals, we are harming ourselves,” claims Dr Aysha Akhtar, a neurologist and public health specialist.
Read More Coronavirus Closures Reveal Vast Scale of China’s Secretive Wildlife Farm Industry
Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus
Read More Coronavirus: ‘Nature Is Sending Us a Message’, Says UN Environment Chief
Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts.
Read More This Is What Climate Change Looks Like In An Era Of Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic seems likely to continue to threaten and disrupt lives across the world for at least several months to come. But it’s vital this does not mean the ongoing impacts of climate change are buried behind the headlines or ignored by governments.
Read More What Determines Coronavirus Survival?
What determines COVID-19 survival if you are infected? Do we have any control over it? Using periodic animations, this video covers the virus’s mechanism for reproduction, how the virus claims its victims, and how to lower major risk factors for fatality.
Read More The US Is Using Germ Warfare On Sanctioned Nations
In some very important ways the US government has clearly seen the coronavirus outbreak not as a dangerous humanitarian crisis, but as a strategic advantage to be weaponized against governments which refuse to bow to its empire-building agendas.
Read More Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses
As agriculture expands, habitats will shrink. That will likely lead to higher numbers of the species that transmit deadly diseases.
Read More What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images
Ahead of a series of major events later this year, The Foundation for Deep Ecology and the Population Media Center released a collection that illustrates the devastating effects of out-of-control growth and waste, and it’s breathtaking.
Read More Rising CO2 in the Ocean Will Make Fish ‘Intoxicated,’ Scientists Predict
Rising levels of CO2 are wreaking havoc on our natural environment, causing increases in global temperatures, sea levels and seawater acidity. Now scientists are predicting that the increased CO2 in our oceans may have the effect of ”intoxicating” fish, impacting their ability to survive in the wild.
Read More ‘A Common Germ Pool’: The Frightening Origins of the Coronavirus
Some 60 percent of the new diseases that crop up around the globe each year are zoonotic — meaning they come from domesticated animals or wildlife. Scientists have found that infectious diseases are now emerging more rapidly than in the past.
Read More Cold War, Coronavirus, And The Illusion Of Control
Everyone’s stressed right now, and if you ask them why they’re stressed they’ll tell you it’s because of the virus. But he primary driver of the stress is not the virus itself, but uncertainty about its future effects.
Read More Great Barrier Reef Suffers Third Mass Coral Bleaching Event in Five Years
Renowned scientist Terry Hughes says huge swathes of reef have been affected in a ‘severe’ situation
Read More An In-Depth Summary of The COVID-19 Situation: Daniel Schmachtenberger
In this fast changing and overwhelming pandemic crisis, what is really going on, and what should individuals and governments do? In this situational assessment, Daniel outlines some of the misconceptions about the virus, some likely trajectories for the US and the rest of the world, and lays out some concrete proposals for avoiding disaster.
Read More Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? The Filthy Business of Fish Farming
On October 7th, 2019, animal protection organization Compassion Over Killing released footage from their new undercover investigation of a salmon factory farm.
Read More 7 Vegan Nutrition Tips to Help You Fight the Coronavirus
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, these vegan nutrition tips could help you boost your immune system.
Read More On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View
The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe, and is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health
Read More With Temperatures Rising, Can Animals Survive the Heat Stress?
A growing number of studies show that warming temperatures are increasing mortality in creatures ranging from birds in the Mojave Desert, to mammals in Australia, to bumblebees in North America. Researchers warn that heat stress could become a major factor in future extinctions.
Read More Governments Have ‘Historic Opportunity’ to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition, IEA Says
Political and financial leaders have “a historic opportunity” to usher in a new era for global climate action with economic stimulus packages to confront the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.
Read More Polar Ice Caps Melting Six Times Faster Than in 1990s
The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date.
Read More Thinking of Ducks
Ducks. As a child I used to love visiting duckponds. These memories linger, visions of a lost childhood when I thought the world was a place of beauty and wonder. Oblivious to the barbarity of my species, I had no clue what was really in store for the majority of ducks, and the world became a blacker and more sinister place for my knowing.
Read More Living Gratefully in the Time of Coronavirus
“As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have,
the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.”
From What Is to What If
Written by Rob Hopkins / Kosmos The following is an excerpt from From What Is to What If:...
Read More Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming
Here are Caitlin Johnstone’s 9 thoughts about COVID-19 and what’s coming…
Read More The One-Choice Election
There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden.
Read More Humanity’s Phase Shift: Interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger
This conversation with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom looks at the growing civilisation-level crisis that we are beginning to see around us, and looks at what a genuine ‘phase shift’ for human progress might look like.
Read More Temperature in Antarctica Soars Past 69°F as NOAA Reports Last Month Was World’s Hottest January on Record
While the reading in Antarctica still needs to be confirmed, the Brazilian scientists who logged it called the new record “incredible and abnormal.”
Read More Joaquin Phoenix’s Inspiring Oscar Speech: Love and Compassion for All Beings…
On perhaps one of the biggest nights of his life, PETA’s 2019 Person of the Year, Joaquin Phoenix, wasn’t thinking about himself. As he accepted the Oscar for Best Actor on Sunday, February 9, he was thinking about what else he could do to help end speciesism.
Read More This Graph Will Show You the Carbon Footprint of Your Protein
Even the most sustainable meat is worse for the environment than plant-based protein.
Read More ‘The Saddest Thing Is That This Won’t Be Breaking News’: Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm
“Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!”
Read More What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Assange risks 175 years in prison for the publication of secret US government documents revealing U.S. war crimes and torture, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Guantanamo even though the publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. But if Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one.
Read More Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming
Recent climate models project that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 above pre-industrial levels could cause temperatures to soar far above previous estimates. A warming earth, researchers now say, will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to strike the planet.
Read More U.S. ‘Democracy’ Once Again Showing Its True Colours
After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled with scandals, all of which worked against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of anointed establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, the 2020 Democratic presidential primary elections officially began with a massive scandal working against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of an establishment favorite.
Read More Politics as Usual Isn’t Working: It’s Time for a Revolution
Falling life expectancy. Rising economic inequality. Power concentrated in hands unelected elites. An environment poisoned by profits. For some, the crises present day America faces are existential. As such, the political response needs to be commensurate to the moment and nothing short of a root and branch political revolution. For others, this revolutionary impulse on the Right and Left spells disaster.
Read More When It Comes to Climate Hypocrisy, Canada’s Leaders Have Reached a New Low
A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth’s population plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget.
Read More Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health
A growing body of research points to the beneficial effects that exposure to the natural world has on health, reducing stress and promoting healing. Now, policymakers, employers, and healthcare providers are increasingly considering the human need for nature in how they plan and operate.
Read More America: Land of Make-Believe
The embrace of collective self-delusion marks the death spasms of all civilizations. We are in the terminal stage.
Read More This Song Was Made to Heal You
“Sustainable Human” knocks another one out of the park. Watch and be prepared to be deeply touched… and don’t forget to turn up the sound!
Read More Arctic Permafrost Thaw Plays Greater Role in Climate Change Than Previously Estimated
Abrupt thawing of permafrost will double previous estimates of potential carbon emissions from permafrost thaw in the Arctic, and is already rapidly changing the landscape and ecology of the circumpolar north, a new CU Boulder-led study finds.
Read More It Turns Out Planes Are Even Worse for the Climate Than We Thought
The contrails left by aeroplanes last only hours. But they are now so widespread that their warming effect is greater than that of all the carbon dioxide emitted by aeroplanes that has accumulated in the atmosphere since the first flight of the Wright brothers.
Read More The Primary Mechanism Of Your Oppression Is Not Hidden At All
The primary mechanism of our oppression and exploitation is happening right out in front of our faces.
Read More Just For This Moment
Written by Caitlin Johnstone We could sit here all day talking about how the news man is always...
Read More Chris Hedges & Ray Saurez Discuss “A People’s History of the USA”
Chris Hedges discusses the importance of historian Howard Zinn for a fuller understanding of American history, with journalist Ray Suarez, author of ‘Truth has a Power of its Own: A Conversation about A People’s History with Howard Zinn.’
Read More What It Truly Means to be a Vegan
Many people have the wrong impression when it comes to what it means to be a vegan. Under this definition, do you consider yourself to be a vegan?
Read More The Disaster of Utopian Engineering
The problem is that our utopian engineers in their giddy dismantling of an economic and democratic system, as well as their draining of state resources in the wars they prosecute overseas, have dynamited the tools that could save us. They have left us no option but to revolt and remove them from power.
Read More We Risk Living in an ‘Empty World’ If Assault on Nature Not Stopped, Warns UN Biodiversity Chief
“If our support systems are gone, there will be no humans.”
Read More Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: A Conversation On Inventing the Regenerative Economy
As wealth inequality continues to grow, the escalating consequences of traditional economic models that have exploited the Earth and left millions in poverty are pushing us to the brink of transition. But what will the next system look like? How can we build a regenerative system that’s both socially and environmentally sustainable?
Read More Did Going Vegan Help the Tennessee Titans Win?
Vegan chef Charity Morgan has helped 15 athletes from NFL team the Tennessee Titans to adopt a plant-based meal for the health benefits.
Read More How To Be A Mentally Sovereign Human
Written by Caitlin Johnstone We all showed up naked, slimy and clueless in a world of inexplicable...
Read More Seeking Wholeness in a Time of Brokenness: On Peacebuilding Between Different Faiths
An interview with Reverend Victor Kazanjian, the executive director of the United Religions Initiative.
Read More How Melting Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic
The frozen layer of soil that has underlain the Arctic tundra for millennia is now starting to thaw. This melting, which could release vast amounts of greenhouse gases, is already changing the Arctic landscape by causing landslides, draining lakes, and altering vegetation.
Read More The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Read More ‘Apocalypse Cow’ Is the Documentary Meat-Eating Environmentalists Need to See
Channel 4 documentary “Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet” could change the way some environmentalists see meat.
Read More Guantánamo’s Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World
Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002.
Read More MLK and the Ghost of an Untrue Dream
In his keynote address for the Civil Rights Movement’s March on Washington, DC in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his despair and disappointment that a century after emancipation, freedom still was not a lived reality in the United States of America
Read More 2019 Was the Second Warmest Year on Record
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
Read More Climate Change Won’t Result in a New Normal but in Constant, Horrifying New Disasters
At an intense level of combined heat and humidity—a “wet bulb” reading of 35 degrees Celsius, hotter and more humid than humans have ever experienced—the air will become so muggy that people can’t sweat and their organs begin to shut down, even when sitting in the shade.
Read More How Democracies Die
Democracy was not extinguished in 2016 when Trump was elected. It was slowly strangled to death by the Republican and Democratic parties on behalf of their corporate masters.
Read More So The US Is Invading Iraq Again
Though It won’t be as exciting as last time. If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife and then making her cook him dinner. But it is just as much a violent violation of personal sovereignty in both instances.
Read More The Issue Before Us is Death… (Sermon by Chris Hedges)
You don’t have to subscribe to any particular philosophy or religious belief to appreciate the truth and wisdom within this sermon given by Chris Hedges.
Read More The Bushfire Crisis Is a Wake-Up Call We Can’t Afford to Ignore
A British MP described the Australian bushfire crisis as a “wake-up call for the world” on global warming, but the Australian government is still asleep at the wheel.
Read More January’s New Environmental Books (The Revelator)
The Revelator’s list of new environmental books for January 2020.
Read More ‘Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,’ 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse
The immediate “no-regret” measures they propose include aggressively curbing planet-heating emissions and the use of synthetic pesticides.
Read More Chris Hedges: The Myth of the Glory of War
If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war.
Read More Bearing the Burden of Climate Change and Extinction
How do we live with the pain of knowing what we’ve lost and what’s coming?
Read More Are we already beyond climate tipping points? – A MAHB Dialogue with Paleo-Climatologist Andrew Glikson
There is hardly any future for many species and for human civilization under mean global temperatures of more than 2 degrees Celsius, let alone under more than 4 degrees Celsius, which is where we are heading… – Andrew Glikson
Read More Could Abandoned Agricultural Lands Help Save the Planet?
Agriculture’s global footprint is decreasing — more land globally is now being abandoned by farming than converted to it. This, some researchers contend, presents an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.
Read More The Issues with Eating Dairy, Eggs and Honey [Interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger]
In this interview with researcher and think-tank developer Daniel Schmachtenberger, we discuss some of the fundamental ethical questions and issues surrounding animal rights and veganism.
Read More 3 Activists Share Indigenous Wisdom for Facing Today’s Challenges
Indigenous Peoples are often on the frontlines of environmental justice movements. As original caretakers of the land, these communities have not only sought to protect their own livelihoods, but also to preserve humanity’s harmony with the Earth.
Read More The Impeachment’s Moral Hypocrisy
If our political leaders truly want to restore the rule of law and uphold the constitution, then why didn’t they impeach Bush and Obama (and Trump for his ongoing complicity) for starting illegal wars, assassinating U.S. citizens without due process, carrying out illegal torture, mass spying on the U.S. citizens, and many other serious human rights abuses.
Read More Yes, Australia Has Always Had Bushfires: But 2019 Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
Record drought in Australia attributed to accelerating climate change has contributed to a continent-scale emergency that has burned through more than 5m hectares and alarmed scientists, doctors and firefighters.
Read More Why Everything is Fu**ed
We all slid out of the womb an itty bitty helpless information sponge into a world full of mentally ill giants who couldn’t wait to fill our tiny skulls with all of their inner demons. And now everything, understandably, is fucked.
Read More Hope Lies in the Streets
Hope lies in the streets. Millions of people in Hong Kong, India, Chile, France, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon understand. It is time to join them.
Read More Climate Crisis to Drive All Future New Zealand Government Policies
New Zealand is stepping up its efforts to stop global warming. All new government decisions will be made with the climate change crisis in mind.
Read More All The Species Declared Extinct This Decade
Scientists estimate that species are going extinct 1,000 times faster than they should be, and “literally dozens” go extinct each day. Gizmodo compiled a list of the species that the IUCN has formally declared extinct in the past decade.
Read More 2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis
The climate news was not good this year—all the more reason to fight with renewed vigor in the next.
Read More Science: Bees Are the Most Important Species on Earth
Bees are the most important species, according to research that reveals how wild bee health impacts the environment more than colony collapse disorder.
Read More On Courage
What does it mean to be courageous? This short video provides an eloquent answer through powerful images that encourage further consideration of the question.
Read More The Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise
Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.
Read More Indigenous Bolivia Ready to go to War Against Fascism
3 weeks after a fascist coup and ousting of democratically elected president Evo Morales, a journalist visits Bolivia to learn about this crisis from the perspective of the indigenous people.
Read More Arnold Schwarzenegger Commends Joe Rogan for Changing His Mind About the Game Changers
The actor Arnold Schwarzenegger—who is featured in the documentary,The Game Changers—is proud of Joe Rogan for having an open mind about the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Read More Greta Thunberg at COP25: ‘There Is no Sense of Urgency’
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, whom Time Magazine just named “Person of the Year,” spoke to delegates at the COP25 climate conference in Madrid.
Read More Reconciling Ecological Imperatives and the Right to Food at a Time of Bio-Ethical Crisis
Richard Falk discusses an extremely disturbing evolving situation by labeling it ‘the first bio-ethical crisis to confront humanity.’ It is bio-ethical in the primary sense that the challenges posed are fundamentally directed at the wellbeing and even survival of the species as a whole, and this crisis has an ethical character because knowledge and resources exist to overcome these challenges, and yet action is not being taken.
Read More Glenn Greenwald’s Exclusive Interview With Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Who Was Deposed in a Coup
Evo Morales, who served as president of Bolivia for 13 years and presided over extraordinary economic growth and a reduction of inequality praised even by his critics, announced that he was resigning the presidency under duress, with implicit threats from the Bolivian military and links to the U.S. strongly indicated.
Read More Scientists Warn World Will Reach “Peak Meat” by 2030
A demand letter signed by more than 50 leading environmental experts calls upon world governments to replace animal agriculture with plant-based food production to keep the Earth from warming to dangerous levels.
Read More Top 21 Heartwarming Movies for Animal Lovers
The holiday season is the perfect time to cozy up with these top 21 movies for animal lovers. From animated classics like Bambi to new favorites like Frozen 2, these are our top picks for heartwarming movies that the whole family can enjoy.
Read More Chris Hedges On The Rise & Fall of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges provides a compelling summary of the rise and imminent fall of the U.S. Empire, and its associated global corporate power and terrorizing of much of the world with illegal coups, sanctions, violence and war.
Read More The Great American Shakedown
The U.S. Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are perplexed. They presented hours of evidence of an impeachable offense, and yet it has made no difference-public opinion is not moved. The liberal class and the Democratic Party leadership have failed to understand that they, along with the traditional Republican elites, have squandered their credibility. No one believes them. And no one should.
Read More On Being Alone
On a solo canoe trip down the Green River, paddling through the Canyonlands of southeast Utah, Craig Childs reflects on what it means to be alone in the wild.
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