Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown

Fukushima radiation just off the North American coast is higher now than it has ever been, and government scientists and mainstream press are scrambling to cover-up and downplay the ever-increasing deadly threat that looms for millions of Americans.  Following the March 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reactors have sprayed immeasurable amounts […]

A World Without Growth

Could the world order survive without growing? It’s hard to imagine now, but humanity made do with little or no economic growth for thousands of years. In Byzantium and Egypt, income per capita at the end of the first millennium was lower than at the dawn of the Christian Era. Much of Europe experienced no […]

Nearly 200 Nations Adopt 1st Global Climate Change Pact

Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t. The “Paris agreement” aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100, a […]

World’s Muslim Population Doubles

Sunni Muslim supporters of Lebanon’s ex- prime minister Saad al-Hariri wave flags during what they call “a day of anger” in Tripoli, northern Lebanon January 25, 2011 By 2030 the global population is set to reach over 8 billion and 26.4% of that population will be Muslim. A report by the Pew Forum on Religion […]

Fukushima: “100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4”

We reported in 2011 that the International Atomic Energy Commission knew within weeks that Fukushima had melted down … but failed and refused to tell the public. The same year, we reported in 2011 that the U.S. knew within days of the Fukushima accident that Fukushima had melted down … but failed to tell the […]

Fukushima radiation is reaching North America

New research has found that radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan has reached more sites in the waters off the coast of North America. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found the highest level of contamination at a monitoring site about 1,600 miles west of San Francisco, with the sample returned as being […]

New Study Finds Oil and Gas Methane Emissions in the Barnett Shale Twice Official Estimates

A new scientific study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, coordinated by EDF, reports findings from the most comprehensive examination of regional methane emissions completed to date. Focused on Texas’ Barnett Shale – one of the nation’s major oil-and-gas-producing regions – the study uses a new, more accurate way to […]

Drums Along the Seine

“When we are told the hoop is broken, this is the meaning. It is not difficult to understand.” Some years ago on this site we described the ordeals we undertook in search of extrascientific cures for the seemingly intractable imbalance of climate. And although that is what we would always ask our spirit guides to […]

Higher levels of Fukushima cesium detected

Scientists monitoring the spread of radiation in the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear accident report finding an increased number of sites off the US West Coast showing signs of contamination from Fukushima. This includes the highest detected level to date from a sample collected about 1,600 miles west of San Francisco. The level of radioactive […]

Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere

CFACT will hold the world premiere of its long-awaited Climate Hustle skeptical documentary film at an invitation-only red carpet event in Paris during the UN’s COP 21 international summit on climate change. Featuring interviews and comments from more than 30 renowned scientists and climate experts, Climate Hustle lays out compelling evidence that devastates the global […]

A new perspective on “what is Resilience?”

I learned a new term this week: Stationarity. More specifically, “the end of stationarity,” which is apparently a new phrase coined by scientists to describe the growing turmoil of climate change. The End of Stationarity Climate change is disrupting all humanity’s presumptions. For eons, people have counted on reliable things like the seasons, the weather, […]

Water scarcity poses economic and security threat around the world

Conflict over scarce water resources is as old as human history, but in the 21st century, rapidly rising demand for water and threats to supply pose nightmarish risks for people around the globe. The U.S. Defence Department, United Nations’ agencies and the business-dominated World Economic Forum all point to the proliferation of water crises as […]

What to Expect from the Climate Treaty Negotiations in Paris

“The most important question raised by the climate summit may be: Does the power to change the world belong to the people in the conference rooms of Le Bourget or to the people in the streets of Paris?” Rebecca Solnit, “Power in Paris“ The Paris COP 21 UN climate summit is upon us, now, starting […]

Seven Things You Should Know About China’s Coal Consumption

China’s issuance in August of its 2014 Energy Statistical Yearbook has recently garnered attention as a result of a New York Times article noting the yearbook’s substantial upward revision of China’s coal consumption statistics and their potential implications for China’s GHG emissions and the December Paris climate negotiations. These statistics provide additional data on China’s […]

A Human Tsunami of Overshoot

By now, everyone who follows the Collapse blogs knows about the escalating Refugee crisis in Europe, as desperate Syrians and Afghanis attempt to escape War Zones for a new life in the Promised Lands of Sweden and Germany. Already, with barely the first ripple of this wave rolling in, communities from Kos & Lesbos in […]

Getting it wrong on recycling

Let’s see what those disparaging America’s rate of recycling as “too high” either get completely wrong or fail to understand. You can read recent commentary suggesting that the recycling rate is too high here, here and here. The number one complaint is that it costs more to recycle some categories of waste than to put […]

Scientists Just Analyzed Dozens of Natural Disasters. Can You Guess Which Ones We Made Worse?

California’s epic wildfire season has our fingerprints all over it. Climate scientists are pretty good at figuring out the causes of long-term trends. We know that dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will make global temperatures rise over time. But pinning down the cause of any single weather event—a specific heat wave, hurricane, or drought—is […]

Crude oil smells bad and could kill you

Crude oil — black gold as it’s known — is not as simple a commodity to turn a profit on as actual gold. Sure, with volatility in the oil market it might seem tempting to buy a few barrels, store them in your garage and wait for the price to go up. But as Bloomberg’s […]

Permaculture: Regenerative – not merely Sustainable

September 2015 saw the International Permaculture Conference, held in London, followed by the Convergence, which occupied 6 days at Gilwell park, on the Essex-London border, where its practitioners gave presentations and workshops on various aspects of permaculture, which is a sustainable design system intended to emulate the principles of living ecosystems. While it has been […]

Ten years that changed everything; and prevented all change

We are one month away from the COP-21, in Paris, that should change everything – and will probably change nothing relevant. But change does occur, even though in ways that often surprise us, and in ways we may not like to see. The past decade has been a period of enormous changes and, also, a decade […]

Beyond “How to Save the World”

When Dave Pollard started his blog “How to Save the World” over a decade ago, he believed he might actually play a role in changing the world. After studying the three major systems of civilization — energy & resources, ecology, and economy — he finds all three unsustainable and out of control. Rather than trying […]

World set to lose fifth of remaining natural habitat

Nearly 20 million square kilometres of habitat could be lost by 2050 Urbanisation, agriculture, mining and energy production to blame The effects will be particularly dire in Africa and South America   The world could lose a fifth of its remaining natural habitat by 2050 through population growth if current trends in land use continue […]

The Four Horsemen Of The Sixth Mass Extinction

Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop it. A detail from Gustave Dore’s image […]

Charles C. Mann on Peak Oil

The idea that we’ll soon run out of fossil fuel is both popular and frightening. But is it accurate? Orion editor Andrew Blechman speaks with Charles C. Mann, who argues that the premise of “peak oil” is not only false, but a dangerous distraction from a much bigger problem: climate change. Mann’s essay on the topic, “Peak […]

Burning Down the House

“To address the risk of catastrophic wildfire and improve air quality, the District has teamed with other public and private stakeholders to … sequester carbon from biomass waste in a highly stable biochar, and produce renewable energy from the energy-rich byproduct syngas. “ It is no secret we live in house on fire. This December […]

Fracking Wells Associated With Premature Birth

Expectant mothers who live near active natural gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and for having high-risk pregnancies, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests. The findings, published online last week in the journal Epidemiology, shed light on some of […]

2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them

Two earthquakes registering at a 4.5 and a 4.4 magnitude shook frack-happy Oklahoma on Saturday, some of the strongest felt in the state this year. The stronger quake occurred just a few miles from the city of Cushing, which holds one of the largest crude oil storage facilities in the world. The recent quakes struck […]

Welcome To a New Planet

Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) make increasingly hair-raising reading, suggesting that the planet is approaching possible moments of irreversible damage in a fashion and at a speed […]

The Oceans Are Becoming Too Hot for Coral

This week, scientists registered their concern that super-warm conditions are building to a point where corals are severely threatened across the tropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. They did so after seeing corals lose colour across the three major ocean basins – a sign of a truly momentous global change. This is only the third […]

Inside the deserted Fukushima exclusion zone

VIEW GALLERY These never-before-seen photographs give an unprecedented look at the exclusion zone surrounding the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. The massive 12.5 mile zone has become an overgrown wilderness after being abandoned in the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster. Hundreds of cars, bikes and every-day items lay untouched as a reminder of the […]

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