Delhi smog: Respiratory issues along with cases of asthma and allergies on the rise

New Delhi: The smog that has set in post Diwali in the national capital Delhi, has begun to show its dark side, with more cases of people complaining of asthma, allergies, severe breathlessness and other respiratory problems. As the city grapples with the worst smog to hit Delhi in 17 years, doctors and experts say […]

20 devastating photos show California’s drought-stricken reservoirs

California is in the middle of its fifth year in drought. Experts say it has been the worst the state has seen in 1,200 years. Dwindling reservoirs, shrinking lakes, and dried-up farm fields dot the state’s landscape — and despite some recent signs of recovery, the overall outlook is still ominously dry. Across the state, […]

Scientists have discovered why American honey bees are turning into zombies

A California based group has discovered a growing threat to the American honey bee population that turns them into “zombees.” The research by Dr John Hafernik and his team have discovered that the phorid fly has begun to use the honey bee as its host, and could be contributing to colony collapse disorder. These infected “zombees” behave erratically, leaving their nest to die.

Deepwater Horizon and our emerging ‘normal’ catastrophes

While watching the recently released film “Deepwater Horizon” about the catastrophic well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, I remembered the term “fail-dangerous,” a term I first encountered in correspondence with a risk consultant for the oil and gas industry. We’ve all heard the term “fail-safe” […]

Plausibly Impossible

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, tells how E.O. Wilson, who became through his studies of […]

Activists Shut Down ALL TAR SANDS PIPELINES to the USA

BREAKING: 5 Activists Shut Down ALL TAR SANDS PIPELINES entering the USA For more info visit facebook.com/climatedirectaction/

Doing the Energy Maths

In a recent Guardian article, columnist George Monbiot takes on the Governments who have signed and are in the process of bringing the Paris Agreement into force, arguing that their actions are not aligned with limiting warming of the climate system to the extent the agreement requires. The argument presented revolves around the ongoing development […]

Millennials, please don’t reproduce

As a whole, I have no issues with millennials, just like I would never have an issue with someone based purely on their birth year. I do not believe that millennials are more entitled, lazy, or more “politically correct” than any previous generation, because I wholly reject any argument which situates itself upon the generalization […]

Malthus the prophet of doom: why bother with reading the original when you can simply cut and paste from the Internet?

An excerpt from the book I am writing, “The Seneca Effect,” that contains a chapter dedicated to the Irish famines. Above, the reverend Thomas Malthus (1766 – 1834) The demolition of Thomas Malthus’ work in our times is often based on accusing him of having predicted some awful catastrophe to occur in the near future, […]

Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It’s Going To Get Worse)

The nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day. Credit – NOAA What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they’d be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, […]

Bees Declared Endangered in the U.S.

Seven species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bee, decimated by invasive species and habitat loss, are now federally protected. A male yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus anthracinus) lands on a flower of a plant called the naupaka, which plays a central role in Hawaiian mythology.   As the legend goes, when star-crossed lovers Naupaka and Kaui knew they’d be […]

How Can Fossil Fuel Supplies Be Constrained?

Academics gathered in Oxford this week to discuss how to constrain fossil fuel supply as part of efforts to tackle climate change. Carbon Brief attended the two days of talks at the “Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy” conference, organised by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), to speak to delegates about what kind of future […]

Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification

    According to system justification theory, our evaluations of social systems and institutions are influenced by epistemic needs to maintain a sense of certainty and stability, existential needs to feel safety and reassurance, and relational needs to affiliate with others who are part of the same social systems (_). These needs give rise to […]

Global Warming and the Future of Humanity

How serious of an issue is climate change? Does global warming really threaten human civilization? Can it be reversed, or is it already late? In this exclusive interview for Truthout, two scholars, Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading public intellectuals, and Graciela Chichilnisky, a renowned economist and climate change authority who wrote and designed […]

The Illusion And Truth Of Courage

The other day, I received an email from someone who has been invited to speak at a conference about the state of the ocean. To set the tone, it’s a political conference about “protecting our resources and fisheries for those who economically depend on the ocean for a sustainable future”. Note the separation-steeped language: resources, […]

Water strategy crucial for long-term sustainability

SOUTH Africa, facing its most serious water crisis in recent history, must urgently adopt a comprehensive long-term water strategy to ensure that the country has enough clean water for the next 100 years. It is imperative that South Africa prioritises a holistic water strategy to stave off catastrophe ahead. Last year was ground breaking in […]

Incorrect theory from 18th century still guides policy

Tom Hanks lands a plane on the Hudson River in a movie out late last week, starring in “Sully,” a biopic about Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who did it in real life in 2009. Hanks hits the big screen again next month as Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist of novelist Dan Brown’s creation. “Inferno” opens […]

Peak Radiation: Scientists Hope To Calculate Nuclear Fuel Left Inside Earth By 2025

By 1992, environmental activist Jeremy Rifkin claimed, we would achieve Peak Oil. Fossil fuels would begin to decline. Rifkin was just going by an environmental press release but Peak Oil had a long history; almost as long as oil itself. In 1919, the chief geologist of the United States Geological Survey, said Peak Oil would […]

Some Thoughts on System Change

It becomes clearer with each passing day that simply ameliorating current problems is not going to be sufficient. This blog is about how we might scale up transformative change. There is an ongoing litany of alarming and depressing news regarding climate change and the growing gap between our aspirations for addressing it and reality (and […]

World Population Growth Is Speeding Up, Not Slowing Down; No Peak in Sight and Consequences Will Be Catastrophic

Leon is an Advisory Board Member and Senior Writing Fellow with CAPS. A wildlife biologist, and environmental scientist and planner, Leon is the author of “Where Salmon Come to Die: An Autumn on Alaska’s Raincoast” and was a contributing writer to “Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation.” In a career that spans three decades, […]

Half The Forms Of Life On Earth Will Be Gone By 2050

Humanity should start saving nature and switch to 80 percent renewables by 2030, otherwise the Earth will keep losing species, and within 33 years around 800,000 forms of life will be gone, conservation biologist Reese Halter told RT’s News with Ed. Humans have changed the Earth so much that some scientists think we have entered […]

These Oil Wells in Iraq Have Been Burning For Months

  Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. A camera aboard the Landsat 8 satellite has been tracking the progress of oil fires in Iraq that have been burning since June. The dark plumes of smoke, which are wreaking havoc on local communities, are a stark […]

Earth Church

On a hot day in late June, about ten of us,[i] and some of our children, gathered at the water’s edge of Lake Michigan.  We had found a secluded spot, with a dry sandbar sheltered by willows reaching towards the water.  Although a windless day, it was still cooler this close to the lake, and […]

Japan Will Reactivate The Fukushima Nuclear Reactor

Plans to restart the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan got a major boost Wednesday after a local politician who vehemently opposed the plan declined to run for reelection. Japanese laws do not require utilities to obtain approval from local officials before reactivating power systems, but it is the expected practice. The shares of Tokyo Electric Power […]

World’s Largest Fusion Reactor will Harness the Power of the Sun

Human development and functionality are largely dependent on the constant availability of electricity. Nearly every piece of technology new and old is heavily reliant on a constant supply of energy. As such, humans have a massive taxing demand for more power, power that is often accumulated through less than desirable means. Be it burning fossil […]

Japan’s ‘Hail Mary’ at Fukushima Daiichi: An Underground Ice Wall

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION — The part above ground doesn’t look like much, a few silver pipes running in a straight line, dwarfed by the far more massive, scarred reactor buildings nearby. More impressive is what is taking shape unseen beneath: an underground wall of frozen dirt 100 feet deep and nearly a mile […]

World population may rise to nearly 10 billion by 2050

New York, Aug 28: The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050, increasing by 33 per cent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, the latest report from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has predicted. If the assumptions underlying 2050 projections by the PRB’s World Population Data Sheet are applied to subsequent years, the world […]

Peak Oil, Peak Coal, Peak Deforestation, Peak Emissions…. and Why They’re Not Nearly Enough

Recent data related to our global emissions of heat-trapping gases suggest that humanity may have reached a turning point, or even several. We may be moving from increasing emissions, to peaking and starting to decline. We could be close to such peaks, or even have passed it, for several of the main sources of greenhouse […]

Third Study on Adverse Health Effects of Fracking for Natural Gas

A new study out today from Johns Hopkins in Environmental Health Perspectives revealed associations between fracking and various health symptoms including nasal and sinus problems, migraines and fatigue in Pennsylvanians living near areas of natural gas development. The study suggests that residents with the highest exposure to active fracking wells are nearly twice as likely […]

Your Damn Children are Killing the Planet

There, he said it. Children, especially American born children in particular, are a burden to the world’s climate. On a recent episode of the popular NPR show “All Things Considered,” Jennifer Ludden reported that Travis Rieder, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, “has proposed a controversial remedy for the effects […]

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