Heinberg: Blame the Environmentalists

The US energy revolution is starting to unravel, even while policymakers continue to believe the hype. This month’s Museletter looks at the reality behind the hype. First up is a look at the ballooning debt behind energy companies struggle to keep the hamster wheel of oil production going. Part two is a short essay revealing […]

The Untold Story about the Health Impacts of Fracking

The health impacts of fracking get a lot of attention but, unfortunately, most of it consists of anecdotes and speculation. There is, nevertheless, plenty of evidence regarding the health impacts of fracking – it’s an untold story. Everyone knows shale gas causes pollution right? That’s what the big debate is all about and the biggest questions […]

Our Overcrowded Planet – A Failure of Family Planning & A Grim Sustainable Future Warning

  The UN World Population Prospects projections forecast: that the world will reach nearly 11 billion people by 2100 presents an unsettling prospect of an unfolding population growth related humanitarian tragedy, one that reflects a collective failure to provide women world wide with safe, effective ways to avoid pregnancies they neither intend nor want. It […]

Japan Prepares To Release Thousands Of Tons Of Fukushima Groundwater Into The Pacific

A few days ago, with over a three year delay, Japan finally admitted what was clear to most from day one: the consequences of the Fukushima disaster have been far, far worse than officials had reported, and not only is the containment effort out of control, but that more nuclear fuel had melted at the […]

The Effect of Overpopulation on Public Health

Share this infographic on your site! <a href=”http://www.mphonline.org/overpopulation-public-health/”><img src=”http://www.mphonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Overpopulation.jpg” alt=”Overpopulation” width=”500″  border=”0″ /></a><br />Source: <a href=”http://www.mphonline.org/”>MPHOnline.org</a> The Effect of Overpopulation on Public Health The world population is growing at an alarming rate. But overpopulation is seldom discussed as a public health issue. Just how many of us are there and how is our rising population […]

California Experiencing Most Severe Drought Ever Recorded

One of the worst North American droughts in history could be getting a whole lot worse. According to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor Map released on Tuesday, more than 58 percent of California is in an “exceptional drought” stage. That’s up a staggering 22 percent from last week’s report. And, in its latest drought report […]

Bakken Shale Gas Flaring Highlights Global Problem

High rates of natural gas flaring in the Bakken shale formation are symptomatic of infrastructure limitations that prevent this gas from reaching a market. Although various technical options could reduce flaring from high-output well sites, none matches the benefits of developing large-scale outlets for the gas. The Wall St. Journal recently reported on the high […]

BP Oil Spill: Deepwater Horizon Toxins Consumed By Ocean Bacteria

Since the BP (NYSE:BP) Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig spilled 201 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, BP has spent more than $14 billion cleaning up the mess. But the whole time, a few microscopic ocean residents have been playing their part, too. Florida State University researchers have found that […]

The Gulf of Mexico Is Still Dying: Pathogenic Micro-organisms Proliferate Due To Polluted And Poisoned GOM ‘Bioterrain’

There have been several significant developments over the past few decades in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) which now require special and immediate attention.  The multitude of oil spills — both large and small — require extraordinary remediation measures, as well as the application of safe and proven technologies which will not make the existing […]

Worldwide water shortage by 2040

Two new reports that focus on the global electricity water nexus have just been published. Three years of research show that by the year 2040 there will not be enough water in the world to quench the thirst of the world population and keep the current energy and power solutions going if we continue doing […]

Bomb Trains: The Crude Gamble of Oil by Rail

It’s estimated that 9 million barrels of crude oil are moving over the rail lines of North America at any given moment. Oil trains charging through Virginia, North Dakota, Alabama, and Canada’s Quebec, New Brunswick, and Alberta provinces have derailed and exploded, resulting in severe environmental damage and, in the case of Quebec, considerable human […]

Why Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels

Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that led to it. Yet this is precisely what we are now trying to do with climate change policy.  The Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, many environmental groups, and the oil and gas industry all tell us […]

The Converging Environmental and Economic Crises: A pep talk for those paying attention by Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens spoke on “The Converging Economic and Environmental Crisis”; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, July 10, 2014. Nate Hagens is a well-known speaker on the big picture issues facing human society. Nate’s presentations address the opportunities and constraints we face after the coming end of economic growth. On the supply side, Nate focuses […]

Drought drains critical US water supply

A huge volume of fresh water has disappeared from the drought-struck south west of the US in the past decade in what researchers say is a startling sign of the fragility of one of the country’s most important water supplies. Almost 65 cubic kilometres of water has been lost since late 2004 from the Colorado […]

Arctic Oil Well Blowout Could Spread More Than 1,000 Km

Oil from a spill or oil well blowout in the Arctic waters of Canada’s Beaufort Sea could easily become trapped in sea ice and potentially spread more than 1,000 kilometres to the west coast of Alaska, a World Wildlife Fund study showed on Friday. The WWF contracted RPS Applied Science Associates to model 22 different […]

The Fertility Conundrum

It is perhaps inevitable that contraception and population growth are controversial topics, given the many perspectives brought to bear on them. Reproductive-health activists focus on family planning and a woman’s right to control her own body. Economists look at the impact on sustainable growth. Governments fret about over-population and unemployment. Health workers worry about sexually […]

Global Fuckin Warming

This week: 1. Kayapo’s revenge 2. Antarctic meltdown 3. California’s lettuce killing drought 4. Global Fuckin Warming kills! 5. Eco Anxiety 6. Blockades work 7. Women stop Utah tar sands 8. Rising tide blockades line 9 9. Support Marius Mason 10. Savage Fam & Alas 11. Unist’ot’en Camp

Fukushima: Bad and Getting Worse

Fukushima’s radiation disaster is “far from over” There is broad disagreement over the amounts and effects of radiation exposure due to the triple reactor meltdowns after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) joined the controversy June 4, with a 27-page “Critical Analysis of the […]

California Halts Fracking Waste Injections; Fears “Danger To Life, Health, & Natural Resources”

Seven independent oil companies have been ordered to halt state-approved wastewater injection work this week, according to The Bakersfied Californian, The cessation of fracking is out of concern they may be contaminating Kern County drinking water. As ProPublica reports, The state’s Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) is warning that they may […]

Collapse is Inevitable

There has been considerable discussion lately as to whether or not total collapse of the world economies will happen in the relatively near future. I think that is the wrong question. Let me explain. Ecological collapse of the world’s ecosystem is a lead pipe cinch. It is already well underway and instead of slowing down, […]

‘Peak soil’ threatens future global food security

The challenge of ensuring future food security as populations grow and diets change has its roots in soil, but the increasing degradation of the earth’s thin skin is threatening to push up food prices and increase deforestation.     While the worries about peaking oil production have been eased by fresh sources released by hydraulic fracturing, […]

How Can We Feed Billions More People?

One out of every eight people in the world goes hungry. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, which calculated this figure, has also reported that 852 million of these 870 million hungry people live in developing countries. Worse, the world population will likely balloon from its present 7.1 billion to 9.6 billion by 2050. […]

Earth Policy Institute: Providing A Plan to Save Civilization

When assessing the adequacy of basic resources such as land or water over time, population is the universal denominator: as population expands, per capita availability shrinks.  The world population took until the start of the 19th century to reach 1 billion people. As population growth has picked up momentum, we have passed new milestones much more […]

If You Cut One, Plant Two

Olga Mugisa, 11-years-old, takes to the microphone in front of her peers, the Ugandan flag proudly draped behind her and green plants framing the stage. She has an important message to share with her fellow students: “If you cut one, plant two.” “I tell all of you here you to plant trees at school, at […]

World Population Could Quadruple By 2100

World population levels could soar to explosive heights if contraception doesn’t become readily available to women in developing countries. Friday marks World Population Day, the United Nation’s awareness event that invites experts to assess population growth and its global effects. The population currently sits at 7.2 billion, according to the U.N. It will likely hit […]

Population crisis putting world at risk

Since 1989, July 11 has been designated World Population Day. The United Nations was inspired to do so because of public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, when the world’s human population reached 5 billion. Two billion more were added by October 2011, and the estimates for population in 2050 are between […]

Leak at Fukushima Nuclear Plant Threatens Dangerous Meltdown

Trouble is looming at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, as a leak has forced the shutdown of a cooling system that could cause temperatures to exceed dangerous levels. Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was forced to switch off the cooling system at Reactor Unit 5, after engineers discovered it had been leaking water. If […]

25 Million Americans Live Within The ‘Blast Zone’ Of An Oil Train Explosion

Millions of Americans live within the “blast zone” of an oil train accident, according to a new map put together by environmental group ForestEthics. The map, created using industry data and on-the-ground reports of people living close to oil train routes, outlines the routes of oil trains across the U.S. and into Canada. Using census […]

The age of man

As World Population Day 2014 is observed tomorrow under the theme, ‘Invest in Young People today, to ensure a Bright Future’, the world economy continues to grapple with an ever burgeoning population and rapid urbanization. The latest estimates place the world’s population at just over 7 billion and projections see it rising to over 8 […]

North Dakota Fracking: Behind the Oil-Train Explosions

When energy companies started extracting oil from shale formations in South Texas a few years ago, they invested hundreds of millions of dollars to make the volatile crude safer to handle. In North Dakota’s Bakken Shale oil field, nobody installed the necessary equipment. The result is that the second-fastest growing source of crude in the […]

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