California as Drought Has Water Tables Plunging

Near California’s Success Lake, more than 1,000 water wells have failed. Farmers are spending $750,000 to drill 1,800 feet down to keep fields from going fallow. Makeshift showers have sprouted near the church parking lot. “The conditions are like a third-world country,” said Andrew Lockman, a manager at the Office of Emergency Services in Tulare […]

White, Wealthy, and Whiney: An Environmental Movement in Need of a Makeover

On the 45th Earth Day this week, environmentalists deserve a pat on the back — and an image overhaul. Now that I’ve gotten your attention with an over-the-top headline, understand that I don’t really buy it. Not completely, anyway. But millions of Americans do, and because of that, pushback against environmental initiatives is both strong […]

Oil Firms, Nations Agree to End Gas Flaring

Twenty-five major oil companies, oil-producing nations and development institutions agreed Friday to end the practice of routine flaring of natural gas by 2030 at thousands of oil production sites around the world. Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil, Kuwait Oil Co., Russia, Norway and the Asian Development Bank are among those making the commitment, which was announced […]

Emergency Shut Down Of West Coast Fisheries: “Populations Have Crashed 91 Percent”

Earlier this week Michael Snyder warned that the bottom of our food chain is going through a catastrophic collapse with sea creatures dying in absolutely massive numbers. The cause of the problem is a mystery to scientists who claim that they can’t pinpoint how or why it’s happening. What’s worse, the collapse of sea life […]

The Bottom of the Food Chain Is Experiencing a Catastrophic Collapse

A 1,000 Mile Stretch Of The Pacific Ocean Has Heated Up Several Degrees And Scientists Don’t Know Why According to two University of Washington scientific research papers that were recently released, a 1,000 mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean has warmed up by several degrees, and nobody seems to know why this is happening.  This […]

World’s population to grow by 1.1 billion

The United Nations has said that the world’s population is expected to grow from 7.3 billion to 8.4 billion between 2015 and 2030 and called for integrating population issues into the post-2015 development agenda. The information was learned from the 48th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development that opened with a focus […]

Extinction Radio: Carolyn Baker/ Nature Bats Last/ Guy McPherson

Indepth Interview: Carolyn Baker/ Nature Bats Last/ Guy McPherson European

LA: Groundwater Levels Plummet

New laws intended to safeguard California’s dwindling groundwater largely exclude crucial basins in Los Angeles and Orange counties, on the grounds that local monitoring systems for them are already in place. But that is not keeping their water levels from descending to historically low levels, NBC4 has learned. “The system has worked until now,” said […]

India: Groundwater levels plummet

Scanty rainfall this year could worsen the situation. The average depth to water level was 9.59 mbgl in July this year, against the 7.39 mbgl last year, calculated from 11 locations in the city. The groundwater situation in the city and surrounding areas might become alarming if copious rains do not drench down the city […]

California delta’s water missing amid drought

As California struggles with a devastating drought, huge amounts of water are mysteriously vanishing from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — and the prime suspects are farmers whose families have tilled fertile soil there for generations. A state investigation was launched following complaints from two large agencies that supply water to arid farmland in the Central […]

Access to water supply will be a defining issue of 21st century

Ireland’s recent experience of the politics of water introduces us to a worldwide trend which is set to become one of the defining issues of the 21st century. Water is an essential element of life but it is a scarce resource, under pressure from transboundary conflicts, climate change and capitalist growth policies. In her book […]

Who Will Control The World’s Water: Governments Or Corporations?

Water is perhaps the world’s most important resource, and one of the most common resources. For decades water was regarded as a common good, and it was plentiful enough that in most parts of the world there was little money to be made off of it. Now as the world’s population continues to grow, all […]

Activists Who Scaled Shell’s Arctic-Bound Oil Rig Refuse to Leave

Six Greenpeace activists who brazenly scaled a Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling ship bound for the Arctic Monday say they are refusing to leave despite a legal injunction against them. “The injunction is just the latest intimidation tactic on the part of Shell,” Aliyah Field, one of the six activists on board the ship, told […]

Russia Wasting Millions of Tonnes of Oil From Leaking Pipes

Russia’s ageing and leaking pipelines are wasting millions of tonnes of oil a year, causing widespread environmental damage that largely goes unreported, according to Greenpeace Russia. The pressure group says the problem is getting worse as Russia battles against falling oil prices and continued Western sanctions at a time when its pipelines need urgent repairs […]

Crop yields can’t be increased anymore: world hunger imminent

April 10, 2015 09:30 Lester Brown Download video (237.64 MB) With the population of 7 billion people living on planet Earth – and that number could increase tenfold in the coming decades – the dwindling resources of our world become a major concern, for the poor as well as the rich nations. Scientists warn of […]

Japan considers evaporation of Fukushima water

Japan is considering evaporating or storing underground tritium-laced water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant as an alternative to releasing it into the ocean, Tokyo Electric Power Co’s chief decommissioning officer told Reuters on Wednesday. The removal of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of water containing tritium, a relatively harmless radioactive isotope left behind in […]

The BP Oil Spill 5 Years After: How Has It Affected You?

On April 20, 2010, a blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP. Eleven people died. And the wellhead, protruding from the seafloor, spewed millions of gallons of crude into the ocean. That oil spread far and wide, killing microorganisms and larger animals, […]

Fukushima radiation reaches N American shores

Seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has reached North America. Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution detected small amounts of cesium-134 and cesium-137 in a sample of seawater taken in February from a dock on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It’s the first time radioactivity from the March 2011 triple meltdown has been identified […]

Why we all should care about the oil platform explosion that just happened in Mexico

Early Wednesday morning the Pemex oil platform, Abkatun Alpha blew up off the West coast of the Yucatan peninsula. The explosion killed four people and sent 16 to the hospital. 300 people managed to escape the blazing wreckage. Three people are still missing. This image, one of several that were made available to Greenpeace by […]

Owners of Fukushima land are unknown

The central government has not been able to identify half of some 2,400 owners of land in Fukushima Prefecture where it plans to build storage facilities for contaminated soil from the nuclear crisis, sources said. The government intends to build the complex on around 16 sq. km of land in the towns of Okuma and […]

Sewchar Surfers

” Transforming sewage sludge into biochar can enhance soil fertility without simultaneously spreading dangerous pollutants.” –>   On a recent visit to the Caribbean we happened to ask our waiter, who, as it turned out, was the owner of the small outdoor restaurant where we sipped our coffee, what local hotels did with their sewage. We […]

Oil, gas violations largely unreported

A report from the Natural Resources Defense Council finds “it is virtually certain” oil and gas violations are never reported because of inadequate enforcement. NRDC published a report Thursday that says not all violations of oil and natural gas safeguards are detected. “It is virtually certain that some violations are never detected due to inadequate […]

The Competitive Exclusion Principle

Evolution is all about a struggle for survival and reproduction. For predators it becomes an arms race. For hundreds of millions of years predatory animals have honed their offensive weapons while prey animals have evolved ever more effective defensive adaptations. Each animal, predator or prey, carved out their particular niche and occupied that niche until […]

Atlantis Won’t Sink, Experts Agree

If you’re like most Atlanteans these days, you’ve heard all sorts of unnerving claims about the future of our continent. Some people are even saying that recent earth tremors are harbingers of a cataclysm that will plunge Atlantis to the bottom of the sea. Those old prophecies from the sacred scrolls of the Sun Temple […]

Fukushima MELTDOWN to cause ‘10,000 Chernobyls’ in South Atlantic

Molten nuclear powerplant cores from Fukushima – having burned their way down through the planetary crust and plunged into the Earth’s centre – are set to emerge again on the other side of the planet and devastate the Falkland Islands, scientists believe. Sensationally, the Register can reveal full details of the impending disaster in the […]

15 ways the world will be terrifying in 2050

By mid-century, we’ll likely have self-driving cars, more widespread internet access, and semi-smart robots. But despite our technological advances, humanity has failed to solve many of its problems. The world hasn’t weaned itself off fossil fuels or antibiotics, protected the rain forest, or reduced the stigma surrounding mental illness. We haven’t flood-proofed our cities or […]

Love In The Age of Ecological Apocalypse

Love In The Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating The Relationships We Need To Thrive, North Atlantic Books, 2015. Order here The book in your hands poses and responds to a deceptively simple question: How are we to love in an apocalyptic time? The public tends to associate “apocalypse” with right-wing End of Times zealotry, but […]

Fukushima — A litany of failures costing hundreds of millions

Four years after the earthquake and resulting tsunami that killed 18,000 people and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plan in Japan, the tragedy is far from being over. Despite the litany of failures in cleaning up the mess, Japan carries on. The daunting task of cleanup at the Fukushima nuclear power plant site, where […]

California’s Water Crisis – Get Out While You Can

Groundwater records should not be kept confidential in drought-stricken California “Imagine having two bank accounts with money for your everyday needs, only one of them – the one you draw from when the primary account runs low – is a virtual black box. You really have no idea what the balance is, and there is […]

Conservation of Living Resources in a Post-Peak Oil World

Several years ago I was working as a biological consultant to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, helping this federal agency prepare a long-term management plan for Innoko National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Alaska. This Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) would provide overall management guidance for the refuge’s wildlife, habitat, and public use. The huge, sprawling […]

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