All the ‘Smart’ Athletes Are Going Vegan, Says NBA Star John Salley
Vegan four-time NBA champion and Beyond Meat investor John Salley believes the health benefits of a plant-based diet are best for athletes.
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Animal Production: What Techniques Can Reduce Carbon Footprints?
A study of four farms in Spain used a variety of methods to discern the environmental advantages and disadvantages of both intensive and extensive production systems.
Read MoreIn Media’s Looking Glass, US Doesn’t Threaten Iran But Merely Responds to Iranian Threats
US leaders have been threatening Iran for years, but US corporate media persistently and wrongly paint US escalations against Iran as defensive countermeasures.
Read MoreBernie Sanders Links Hitler’s Murder of His Family to His Fight Against Occupation of Palestinians
Bernie Sanders weighed in yesterday with a forceful message that connects the murder of his own family by the Nazis to his fight against the crushing, humiliating military occupation by Israel of Palestine.
Read MoreNearly Everything You Consume Is Contaminated by Microplastics, Report Says
The average person consumes at least 50,000 microplastics annually from the food they eat, according to a new report published Wednesday in the American Chemical Society’s journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Read MoreIf We Want Antibiotics to Work, Consumers Have to Put Big Pressure on Factory Farms
On March 1, Denny’s stopped purchasing chicken treated with medically important antibiotics for its U.S. restaurants. Many consumers might expect to see such promises at Whole Foods or their local farm-to-table restaurant, but why is a chain like Denny’s (i.e., one that is enjoyed more for its assortment of inexpensive breakfast foods than its moral standards) joining the trend to reduce antibiotics in meat?
Read MoreExtinction Risk and Rebellion: 15 Environmental Books Coming in June
This month brings new books from Greta Thunberg, Robert Macfarlane, the activists behind Extinction Rebellion and other conservation experts.
Read MoreA Culture of Care: Helping Activists and Their Allies Look After Themselves
Self-care is often the last thing on the minds of frontline human rights defenders. But it is the only thing that can make activism sustainable.
Read MoreHow Green Party Gains Could Make Europe a Leader Again on Climate
In recent years, Europe’s role as a global environmental leader has been jeopardized by rising nationalism and populism. But spurred by young climate activists, the Green Party fared well in the latest European Union elections and is now well-positioned to advance bold climate initiatives.
Read MoreNew Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ in 2050
The analysis, published by the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, a think-tank in Melbourne, Australia, describes climate change as “a near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilization” and sets out a plausible scenario of where business-as-usual could lead over the next 30 years.
Read More‘Blatant Attempt to Intimidate’: Trump Administration Proposal Threatens Pipeline Protesters With Up to 20 Years in Prison
Building on efforts by multiple states to crack down on those fighting the construction of climate-destroying fossil fuel infrastructure, the Trump administration unveiled a proposal on Monday that would criminalize pipeline protests at the federal level and hit demonstrators with up to 20 years in prison.
Read MoreNo Need to Dam Free-Flowing Rivers to Meet World’s Climate and Energy Targets
In a comment article published in the Nature last month, scientists argue that an “energy future in which both people and rivers thrive” is possible with better planning. The hydropower development projects now underway threaten the world’s last free-flowing rivers, posing severe threats to local human communities and the species that call rivers home.
Read MoreThe US Cult of Bombing and Endless War
From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combatting terrorism. Its primary method: constant surveillance and bombing — and yet more bombing.
Read MoreArctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
With the ongoing acceleration of the climate crisis, it is clear that even if we believe the best-case scenarios, governments are not reacting according to the gravity of the situation at hand. Each one of us, knowing what we now know, must take full responsibility for preparing ourselves for the adaptation required to live on this increasingly warming, melting world as civilizations and societies continue to disintegrate.
Read MoreAnimals Granted Same Rights as People, Indian Court Rules
Animals living in the North Indian state now have the “corresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person” thanks to the new animal protection law.
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Users and Survivors Respond to World Psychiatric Association: “We Will Not be Silenced Any Longer”
When articles in a recent issue in World Psychiatry, the journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), called for ignoring, amending, and reinterpreting the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), users and survivors pushed back in an open letter. The WPA editorial claimed that the convention’s opposition to forced treatment might be harmful to vulnerable individuals who are “incapable of protecting themselves.”
Read MoreTrumpism Goes Global
Trumpism is still a growing global phenomena. It can be halted, but only with a radial programme which is local and global. It won’t be easy. But it’s certainly possible. If not us, then who, if not now, then when?
Read MoreNevada Officially Bans Animal Testing for Cosmetics
The Nevada Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act was signed into law, making Nevada the second state after California to ban cosmetic animal testing.
Read MoreThe Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons
The film charts the story of the development of the atomic bomb through to the negotiations to prohibit nuclear weapons, and is told through the interventions of 14 people whose roles have been key in the fields of activism and diplomacy.
Read MoreA New Republic of the Heart
My hope is that you will choose to enter this conversation. For me it is a first step in a process of building connections, conversations, relationships, and communities that both nourish and embody the higher potentials of our species, and that will provide a solid integral foundation on which we may begin to build together, in the clear, pure words of Charles Eisenstein, “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”
Read MoreClimate Plan
The Climate Plan advocates measures that can be taken in efforts to improve the situation regarding the climate, as well as regarding the health, prospects and wellbeing of people and life in general. These measures can and should be implemented immediately, in line with the current climate crisis.
Read More5 Podcasts to Inspire You on Climate
Five conversations and stories to remind you why we’re fighting this – and give you hope we’ll win.
Read More10 States Now Encourage Adoption of Research Dogs into Loving Homes
It is a bleak life for the approximately 60,000 dogs and 20,000 cats used in testing and research in U.S. laboratories each year. In March, we revealed the sad plight of some of these animals when we did an undercover investigation at a contract laboratory in Michigan that was testing pesticides, drugs, dental implants and more on beagles and hounds.
Read MoreGlobal Rebellion to Save Our Planet
“The greatest threat to the Earth is thinking someone else will save it.” The responsibility is ours; politicians and governments are complacent, dishonest and buried in the ideology of the past. Despite repeated warnings nothing substantial has been done and time is running out. No one else is going to Save Our Planet; a global movement of civil disobedience is needed to force governments to take the radical action needed.
Read MoreEcological Importance and Human Rights Be Damned, Trump Admin Says Fossil Fuel Pillaging in Arctic Refuge Coming Soon
Interior Dept. statement that “lease sale will happen in 2019” comes as oil companies face heat over possible extraction on previously protected public land. Environmental and indigenous activists are hoping to make sure the Trump administration’s promise to soon sell oil leases in the previously protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is never fulfilled.
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Rise of the Extinction Deniers
Just like climate deniers, they’re out to obfuscate and debase the scientists and conservationists trying to save the world — and maybe get rid of a few pesky species in the process.
Read MoreLet’s Be Clear, Says Mexico Environment Minister, ‘Parasitic and Predatory Neoliberalism’ to Blame for Climate Crisis
In a scathing rebuke to the elite capitalists and politicians who largely control the global economic and energy systems, Mexico’s newly-appointed environment secretary on Wednesday pointed a stern finger at the “parasitic and predatory neoliberals” for being the key culprits behind the planetary climate crisis.
Read MoreDon’t Give J. Edgar Hoover a Posthumous Victory in his Attempts to Assassinate Dr. King’s Character
For seven and half years from 1960 to April 4, 1968, I was privileged to serve Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a political advisor and subsequently as his personal lawyer and draft speech writer. With assistance from Jonathan D. Greenberg, co-founder with me of the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice, the following is my response to the current publicized statements by author David Garrow about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Māori Approach to Mental Health Offers Empowering Alternative to Western Psychiatry
A new article explores Mahi a Atua, an affirming, indigenous Māori healing practice which stands in contrast to the Western psychiatric methods typically promoted by the Movement for Global Mental Health.
Read MoreThe Bilderbergers in Switzerland
The conferences of the Bilderbergers are the most secretive events, managed by those who pull the strings behind world leaders – politicians, corporate CEOs, big finance, and other business execs, artists, and the who-is-who of the world elite. And we are talking of the western world. Other than about ten attendees from Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and Estonia, participants are North Americans or Europeans. The rest of the world doesn’t count.
Read MoreKey US Allies in the Middle East Are the Real Tyrants
American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military interventions than it can reasonably handle, the Trump team recently picked a new fight — in Latin America.
Read MoreElephant Poaching Declines in Africa, but 15,000 Still Illegally Killed Each Year
Even though there has been notable progress, at current poaching rates elephants are still in danger of becoming virtually extinct on the continent.
Read MoreThere’s a Climate Crisis – but Trump’s Cabinet Continues to Backtrack on Science
With Donald Trump at their helm, Republicans will keep denying climate change because it represents a dire threat to their fossil fuel donors’ bottom lines. Democratic leadership would do well to follow the lead of their party’s insurgent progressive wing, and take the climate threat as seriously.
Read MoreNew Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected
New earthshaking science will be coming out in the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that could nearly double future warming predictions. We have a window into this new science now, and if we thought the spate of apocalyptic climate reports last year was bad, our near-term future will create a plausible scenario that is far worse than the worst-case scenario we have come to fear.
Read MoreClimate Shake-Out with Dahr Jamail
Indie-journalist and author of “The End of Ice” Dahr Jamail covers the climate threats and how to cope – with host Alex Smith. From the Arctic to the Amazon to middle America we globe-trot through the latest science and what it means for our common future.
Read MoreGlobal Warming: Human Activity Is the Cause
Fresh studies have again confirmed a vital fact about global warming: human activity is its cause. Science questions its own findings, which is why we should trust it.
Read MoreEverything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari’s questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.
Read MoreChernobyl Has Become an ‘Accidental Wildlife Sanctuary’ Thriving with Life
In the 30+ years since the disaster zone was evacuated, rare and endangered animals are flourishing. What may be a Zone of Alienation for humans has become an ironic haven for animals. And it begs the question: What if in the end, our dystopian nightmare becomes a dream come true for the rest of nature?
Read MoreAfter Years of Abuse, the Earth Has Sent Its Bill Collectors
This planet’s macro-ecological system does have an undeniable sense of accounting … and it keeps a running tally. From alpha-gal syndrome to herbicide resistance, from rising seas to superstorms, we’re watching Mother Nature’s accounting system repeatedly expose the fatal flaw driving economic growth during the Anthropocene era. That flaw is the fallacy of externalities.
Read MorePost Heart Attack, Living It Up at 84 on a Plant-Based Diet
At 75, Jerry Hunter Nissen didn’t realize he had heart disease—until he suffered a heart attack. Wanting to avoid surgery and prolonged medication use, he looked into improving his cardiac health through diet.
Read MoreTornadoes Cut Across Unusually Wide Swaths of US, Raising Alarm for Climate Scientists
As the death toll in Oklahoma rose to six Monday amid an outbreak of nearly 200 tornadoes across the Midwest in recent days—as well as in areas far less accustomed to them—climate scientists said such patterns may carry warnings about the climate crisis and its many implications for extreme weather events.
Read MoreThis Memorial Day, Let’s Learn From Our Mistakes and End Illegal War
Those of us who have realized the truth of war’s futility and waste, however, and have rejected the mythology of necessity and purpose, will not support the continued exploitation and commercialization of the memory of those sacrificed in war and the suffering of their families to enhance consumerism and profit.
Read More‘A Green Wave Has Swept the European Parliament’: In Show of Demand for Climate Action, Green Parties Surge in EU Elections
Underscoring the growing demand for bold climate action that has found expression in global youth-led strikes, marches, and civil disobedience over the past year, Green parties across Europe had their strongest-ever EU parliamentary election performance after running on a platform of transformative environmental change.
Read MoreWhat Would It Mean to Deeply Accept That We’re in Planetary Crisis?
Written by Dahr Jamail & Barbara Cecil / Truthout “We are not here to save the worldOnly to belong to it more fully.”–Author unknown At this critical planetary moment, the two of us are each considering what it means to...
Read MoreThe Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate
Our opinions and prejudices are skillfully catered to and reinforced, with the aid of a detailed digital analysis of our proclivities and habits, and then sold back to us. The result, Taibbi writes, is “packaged anger just for you.” The public is unable to speak across the manufactured divide. It is mesmerized by the fake dissent of the culture wars and competing conspiracy theories.
Read More Why Natural Cycles Only Play a Small Role in Rate of Global Warming
This latest study further reinforces the theory that despite certain natural process affecting global temperatures and climate change, it is human activity that has had by far the most impact over the past 150 years.
Read MoreIs Honey Vegan? Why Bees Need It More Than We Do
Is honey vegan? Here’s why bees make it and need it way more than humans do – and how to sweeten your life with honey alternatives.
Read MoreHow Africa Is Leading the World in a Shift from Plastic
Tanzania isn’t the only African country to introduce such a ban. Over 30 African countries have adopted similar bans, mostly in subsaharan Africa, according to National Geographic.
Read More“They’ll Give Me a Detention but It’ll Be Worth It”—A Climate Scientist Interviews His Climate Striking Daughter
The new generation has new heroes and they aren’t us oldies who have failed to act. It seems the next generation is more globally minded and ecologically aware than any previous one. Maybe we should listen to their wisdom.
Read MoreIt is the Indifference of Israelis that is Killing People
Israel’s Prime Minister is behaving like a war criminal. And he has been re-elected by his own people as a reward. I believe in collective guilt. The indifference of people, who tolerate theft and murder committed on their behalf, becomes terrible crime itself.
Read MoreThe Rise of Veganism; 75 Photo Essay
It’s 2019 … and there are signs everywhere that vegan living is infiltrating the mainstream. This is conveyed in this photo collection: The Rise of Veganism.
Read MoreFood In The Anthropocene: The EAT-Lancet Commission Report
The EAT-Lancet Commission, a collaboration between 37 experts from 16 countries, examines five major Earth systems and the health outcomes associated with various diets.
Read MoreThe Reality of Zoos Is Even Worse Than You Think
At best, the zoo is a fun day for humans who will laugh and point and stare at captive animals who did nothing to deserve their confinement. At worst, it’s a prison that indoctrinates future generations with the shameful belief that animals should be subjugated, abused, and killed simply because we can. Much like the circus freak show, it’s an antiquated, cruel relic that should be banished to the annals of history.
Read MoreChelsea Manning is Showing Us What Real Resistance Looks Like
Chelsea’s act of resistance is public and her motivations are clear. She is providing an example of a tactic—dedicated non-cooperation—that if followed by enough people in enough ways, would lead to dramatic, widespread, systemic change.
Read MoreEvery Cafeteria in America Is About to Get Vegan Meat Options
Major foodservice distributor Sysco showcased Simply Sysco, which features options like plant-based meat and milk. Sysco also offers Beyond Meat sausage.
Read MoreChile’s Southern Patagonia Ice Field Ruptured by Climate Change: Scientists
Chile’s 12,000 square kilometer (4,633 square mile) Southern Patagonia Ice Field split in two and is likely to continue to fracture amid climate change, according to a team of Chilean scientists who were in the region in March.
Read MoreClimate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilisation Hell Bent on Destroying Itself – I’m Terrified’, Writes Earth Scientist
To understand you are in a prison, you must first be able to see the bars. That this prison was created by humans over many generations doesn’t change the conclusion that we are currently tightly bound up within a system that could, if we do not act, lead to the impoverishment, and even death of billions of people.
Read MoreAnimal Agriculture Causes Biodiversity Loss: UN Report
A new UN environmental report, which found that around 1 million species are at risk of extinction, puts much of the blame on animal agriculture, saying that the meat industry has a “particularly heavy impact”. Of all the major causes of biodiversity loss listed by the report (such as destruction of forests and wetlands, overfishing, climate change and pollution), animal agriculture is the primary cause of the deterioration.
Read MoreBreaking News: Botswana Lifts Trophy Hunting Ban on Elephants
In a senseless step backward, the southern African nation of Botswana yesterday announced it will once again allow trophy hunters to prey upon its natural bounty of wildlife, including its iconic elephants.
Read MoreR2P and the Palestinian Ordeal: Humiliating the UN
If there is a lesson for the Palestinian struggle it is this. Do not look for relief to any future application of R2P, or for that matter, to inter-governmental diplomacy or the UN. The only path to ending current patterns of criminal victimization is by a combination of Palestinian national resistance and global solidarity initiatives.
Read MoreBeef Industry Takes the Biggest Bite Out of Earth’s Natural Resources
Earlier this month, faced with its involvement in the planet’s environmental crisis, the U.S. Roundtable on Sustainable Beef put together a voluntary framework to “assess” and “encourage” sustainability and hand out recognition certificates. But it’s totally inadequate. This framework lacks accountability, transparency and, above all, truth about beef’s impacts.
Read MoreMeat Reduction And Vegan Promotion: A Report
A study with the “largest sample of meat reducers, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans in any research project to date” looks at the dynamics of meat reduction campaigns and campaigns promoting veganism.
Read More‘This Is About Attacking Journalism,’ Warn Press Freedom Defenders as Trump DOJ Hits Assange With New Espionage Charges
In an unprecedented move that journalists and press freedom defenders denounced as “the most significant and terrifying threat to the First Amendment in the 21st century,” the Trump Justice Department announced Thursday that a federal grand jury charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 new counts of violating the Espionage Act.
Read MoreClimate Change is Altering the Composition of the World’s Plankton Communities
The composition of the world’s plankton has changed significantly since before the Industrial Revolution, with zooplankton communities shifting poleward by an average 374 miles as a result of warming ocean temperatures. The findings, published in the journal Nature, show the widespread impact climate change is having on marine ecosystems.
Read More18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World
Assange and WikiLeaks revealed the American military’s war crimes, the American government’s corruption and the American corporate media’s pathetic servile flattery to the power elite. We are all Julian Assange. As long as he’s imprisoned, we can never be free.
Read MoreWe Are Witnessing the Collapse of Nature
We seem to be a pretty smart species, we create symphonies and 3D printed hearts and can take pictures of Mars. But really, how smart is a species that knowingly destroys its own habitat, to the point that it becomes unsurvivable? It is up to us, right now, to ensure that we protect biodiversity and treat the natural world with the care and respect required to support our species.
Read MoreEarth Emotions: New Words for a New World
An interview with Glenn Albrecht about his new book and solastalgia. “Glenn Albrecht’s vision is at once realistic and contagiously optimistic. Through unique language, he names the heart-breaking loss we feel as nature gets pummeled. Yet our senses open and our smiles re-emerge as we recognize that such destruction can be the catalyst for the evolution of human consciousness. This book is a manifesto for a new Earth.” —Peter Kahn, author of Technological Nature
Read MoreWhy Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
For the airline industry and industrialized nations in the Paris climate accord, offsets could be a cheap alternative to actually reducing fossil fuel use. But the desperate hunger for these carbon credit plans appears to have blinded many of their advocates to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven’t — and won’t — deliver the climate benefit they promise.
Read MoreWhy Billionaires Have No Right to Their Wealth
Not a day goes by without a new article with details on the unprecedented growth in income inequality and its dire consequences. Something is missing, though. No one is proposing measures that would take away wealth from the 600 or so U.S. billionaires and the 20,000 families with hundreds of millions. Why not?
Read MoreVegan Joaquin Phoenix To Lead Funeral Procession For Dead Farm Animals
Vegan celebrities including Joaquin Phoenix and David Navarro will lead a funeral procession for deceased farm animals next month. The event, which will commemorate the ninth National Animal Rights Day, will be attended by tens of thousands of people in 32 major cities around the world.
Read MoreThe Time Has Come for Patriotic Dissent: Stopping War With Iran Is Essential
What if they called a war and no one came? It’s now the time for the dirty work of citizenship to begin. That means protests, marches, civil disobedience. This must happen in society at large but also as a microcosm in the US military. Generals must resign in protest and then speak out.
Read MoreGiraffe Added to Red List of Endangered Species
Although conservation efforts benefit some giraffe subspecies, others are in serious trouble. Here’s the lowdown.
Read MoreNoam Chomsky: We Must Stop War with Iran Before It’s Too Late
Led by John Bolton, the Trump administration is pursuing catastrophe to protect U.S. dominance. Assuming that rationality prevails and that Bolton and co. can be contained, the U.S. will continue with the successful program of crushing Iran’s economy and punishing its population.
Read MoreThe Reckless Saudis Want to Start Another War
The U.S. has enabled Saudi war crimes for years, and now their leaders want to get us to fight another one of their wars for them. This is just one more reason why the U.S. should cut off all military assistance and support for the Saudis and their allies, and it is why the U.S. should be distancing itself from the Saudis as quickly as possible.
Read MoreThe First Vegan Just Summitted Mt. Everest with Animal-Free Gear
Vegan mountain climber Dean Maher became the first person to summit Mt. Everest wearing completely animal-free climbing gear.
Read MoreTake Care of Yourself in the Face of the Climate Crisis
We are the champions for this planet. Together we are an unstoppable movement, insisting on a survivable future. But sometimes it gets rough. Here are some tips on sustaining ourselves for the long haul of building a better world.
Read MoreThis Month in Climate Science: Warming-driven Economic Inequality, Disappearing Alps and Plummeting Penguin Populations
Every month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change’s causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and explores what’s to come if we don’t reduce emissions at a quicker pace. A snapshot of the month’s significant scientific literature, compiled from some of the leading peer-reviewed journals.
Read More Paraguayan Indigenous Community Goes Digital to Protect Ancestral Lands
Rumilda Fernández’s indigenous community has long tended its ancestral lands in Paraguay, marking boundaries with an ancient system of names for trees and streams. Now, squeezed by deforestation and farming, the community is going digital to defend itself.
Read MoreHow to Shift to a More Plant-Based Diet, Without the Guilt
A compassionate and shame-free approach could help encourage omnivores who are maybe not on board the vegan train to reduce their meat consumption, says bestselling author Kathy Freston.
Read MoreThis Is How to Store Produce Without Plastic
Looking for environmentally friendly plastic alternatives to reduce your impact on the planet? Here are some plastic-free wrapping ideas to get you started.
Read More Record-Breaking Diver Finds Plastic Bag in Deepest Part of Ocean
An America man completed the deepest-ever solo underwater dive May 1. But when he reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, he found that another representative of the human world had gotten there first: plastic.
Read MoreFrance Takes Unprecedented Action Against Reporters Who Published Secret Government Document
Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing the country’s involvement in the Yemen conflict.
Read MoreWhat Spending Time With Animals Can Teach Us About Empathy
Research shows interacting with animals can help foster emotional intelligence and human connection. A study of more than 2,500 people in the United States and in Australia found that those with companion animals were much more likely to get to know their neighbors and form friendships than people without animals.
Read MoreA Quarter of West Antarctica’s Ice Now Considered Unstable, Scientists Find
Rising temperatures have sped up the melting of West Antarctica’s ice fivefold in the past 25 years, resulting in a quarter of the region’s glaciers being classified as unstable, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Read MoreA Major Coal Company Went Bust. Its Bankruptcy Filing Shows That It Was Funding Climate Change Denialism.
The bankruptcy of one of the largest domestic coal producers in the country has revealed that the company maintains financial ties to many of the leading groups that have sowed doubt over the human causes of global warming.
Read MoreRating Animals’ Quality Of Life
Animals in factory farms have the worst lives, that virtually no one would want for themselves. This report compares how their suffering may measure up to wild animals, and other humans.
Read MorePlease Eat the Dandelions: 9 Edible Garden Weeds
Instead of trying to get rid of those lawn and garden weeds, harvest them for free homegrown meals.
Read MoreComing Soon To A Plate Near You: The Future 50 Foods
To improve human health, plant biodiversity, and food security, the “Future 50 Foods” report offers a list of 50 foods the world should be growing and eating more of.
Read MoreA Next-Generation Plastic That Can Be Recycled Again and Again
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has designed a recyclable plastic. Like a Lego playset, it can be disassembled into its constituent parts at the molecular level. It can then be reassembled into a different shape, texture, and colour again and again without loss of performance or quality.
Read MoreNicaragua: The War of 2018
Nearly all US regime-change wars (Venezuela, Syria, Honduras, Ukraine, Libya, Yugoslavia, etc.) are wars of deception, fabrication, propaganda, coups and false flags. Nicaraguans have waged an heroic struggle against the most powerful empire in history.
Read MoreEnvironment Canterbury Applauded for Declaring Region-Wide ‘Climate Emergency’
Canterbury’s move into a state of “climate emergency” was met with rapturous applause from those who encouraged Environment Canterbury (ECan) to be the first council in the country to make the declaration.
Read More‘Our Very Survival Is in Doubt’: Disasters and Threats to Life Escalating Due to Human Activity, Un Warns
Earth’s “very survival is in doubt” if mankind continues to damage the planet, the United Nations (UN) has warned in a report that suggests previously “inconceivable” threats to human existence will rear their heads more often and less predictably than ever.
Read MoreWhy Low-Income Households Need to Be Part of the Clean Energy Revolution
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, energy researcher Tony Reames discusses the growing energy divide between rich and poor in the U.S. and the urgent need to provide low-income communities with better access to affordable clean energy technologies.
Read More Former President of American College of Cardiology Condemns Animal-based Keto Diets
American cardiologist Kim Allan Williams Sr. (born 1955), former president of the American College of Cardiology discusses the research on ketogenic diets. In a nutshell, he concludes that animal-based ketogenic diets are bad for your heart and cardiovascular system. But he also discusses plant-based keto diets, and he says that the research so far suggests that a keto diet may not be so bad as long as animal products are avoided.
Read MoreThe Greatest Danger – Joanna Macy
If you’re really paying attention, it’s hard to escape a sense of outrage, fear, despair. Author, deep-ecologist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy says: Don’t even try.
Read MoreRecorded Webinar – Reconnecting with the Earth for Personal and Global Healing (Part II: The Calling)
We are at a pivotal time in human history. Please join the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) in a series of webinars where we explore the relationship between ecology, how we relate to one another and the earth, and healing from crisis. We have gathered experts from around the globe, including indigenous peoples, to speak to this topic, share best practices, and propose some solutions to the very complex problems we face.
Read MoreSocialism: Ecology or Nothing
Participatory economics and a participatory society puts in place a concern for human well being and development that doesn’t forcefully preclude harming other species, but which is receptive to and respectful of governmental or other social or ecological restraints on behalf of other species. If other species had votes, they would vote for participatory society.
Read MoreReal Populism is the Answer to Climate Crisis
Stop trusting those who represent not us, not the planet, not its bounteous species but the corporations, wherever they are found – in our parliaments, in our media and in our universities. It is time to listen not to them, but to the still small voice inside each of us that was long ago battered into silence and submission.
Read MoreThe United States of Aggression: War With Iran Would Spell the End of the Republic
Who do we think we are? Truly. The latest reports that the Trump administration is considering plans for deploying 120,000 troops to the Middle East – presumably to strike Iran – demonstrates how Washington’s foreign policy has finally gone off the rails.
Read More‘I Am with You’ – the Trans Women Helping Trafficking Victims in Brazil
Trans women in Brazil are helping to rescue others forced into sex trafficking from their pimps.
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