142 Cities In Brazil Are Now Rationing Water As Drought Goes Critical

Did you know that the drought in Brazil is so bad that some neighborhoods are only being allowed to get water once every three days?  At this point, 142 Brazilian cities are rationing water and there does not appear to be much hope that this crippling drought is going to end any time soon.  Unfortunately, […]

Tepco Finds New Radioactive Leak at Fukushima

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), operator of the crisis-ridden Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, said it found a new leak near the tanks holding contaminated water at the disaster site. The utility, which serves 29 million customers in the Tokyo metropolitan area, is collecting soil where the leak occurred and doesn’t believe any water reached […]

As Fracking Booms, Growing Concerns About Wastewater

With hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas continuing to proliferate across the U.S., scientists and environmental activists are raising questions about whether millions of gallons of contaminated drilling fluids could be threatening water supplies and human health. An hour south of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania’s Washington County, millions of gallons of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing wells […]

200 Years Of Scorchitude: Professor Warns California To Brace For A “Mega-Drought”

Two years into California’s drought and locals are repeating (mantra-like) “we’ve never seen anything like it.” They are right, of course, since this is the worst period of rainlessness since records began… but if Cal Berkeley professor Lynn Ingram is correct, they ain’t seen nothing yet. The paleoclimatologist fears, if very long-run history repeats, California […]

Oceans in peril

Relentlessly rising human demand for deep-sea resources such as fish, gas and oil, is posing such a risk that international co-operation is needed if aquatic ecosystems are to be saved, US scientists warn. The doubling of the world’s population over the past five decades is putting great strain on the deep-sea ecosystems, they told an […]

Will Future Food Shortage, Swine Flu Pandemic Or War Stem World Population Growth?

This is a particularly unpleasant subject to write about and I thought long and hard before deciding to write about my findings in the hope it will prompt others to take note and raise the issues within their families, communities and with those whom you have elected to power, so we can do something constructive […]

Radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site

Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened in 1999. U.S. officials were testing for radiation in air samples at the site where radioactive waste, such as plutonium used […]

Michael Klare, In the Carbon Wars, Big Oil Is Winning

We now have an answer to why global temperatures have risen less quickly in recent years than predicted in climate change models. (It’s necessary to add immediately that the issue is only the rate of that rise, since the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998.)  Thanks to years of especially strong Pacific […]

Families who say their lives and communities have been destroyed by the industry

A group of photographers have spent the last several years documenting the effects of the natural gas industry on several rural communities in the Appalachian Mountains that have an abundance of natural gas deep below the surface of the earth. The team of photographers – Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson […]

State of the World Population Report

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced its annual report, “State of World Population: The Promise of Equality, Gender Equity, Reproductive Health, and the Millennium Development Goals.” Aminata Toure, acting head of UNFPA’s Gender, Culture, and Human Rights Branch, presented the report, followed by several respondents. Members of the panel discussed global topics including poverty, gender […]

The World’s Ticking Population Bomb

Demographers are not as worried today as they were several decades ago about the prospect of a “population bomb,” a scenario where so many people come to populate the planet that we exhaust its resources. Population growth has slowed in many parts of the world. And in much of North America, Europe, China, and Brazil, […]

Energy and the Environment

As is all too often currently presented, energy and the environment need not be an either/or proposition. One cannot refute the fact that an abundance of energy, primarily from fossil fuels, has been a boon to mankind over the past 250 years. For about the last 35 years however, it has been abundantly clear those […]

Peak Oil: More Facts Ruining Happy Talk

THE PREMISE Population is a sensitive subject, but it is noteworthy that by 2050, oil supply will have fallen to a level able to support less than half the current population in its present way of life [1] Oil buyers apparently know the Western world’s economic recovery will boost consumption, since growth and oil use […]

Population bomb may be defused, but research reveals ticking household bomb

After decades of fretting about population explosion, scientists are pointing to a long-term hidden global menace. The household. More specifically, the household explosion. In the current edition of Population and Environment, Jianguo “Jack” Liu, director of the Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and former MSU students Mason Bradbury and Nils Peterson […]

The die off of the top predator

The post below, by Dmitry Orlov, is the result of an exchange of e-mails about the similarities between the collapse of the Soviet Union (30 years ago) and the ongoing collapse of several Mediterranean countries, including Italy. Read Orlov’s post to understand his interpretation of a phenomenon that I tend to see as the result […]

Crash on Demand with David Holmgren and Nicole Foss

Do we need to break the system to save the climate? Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren says “yes”, in rare radio interview. Then Nicole Foss replies. Plus Alex’s climate music. Last week on Radio Ecoshock we looked at a growing group of activists, authors and scientists who say only a serious economic crash could save us […]

Drought forces tough decisions

  While recent rains may have city dwellers bundling up and heading for cover, the much-needed precipitation is a godsend for farmers, as California faces its worst drought in decades. Ranchers, who require green pasture to feed their livestock, have been among the hardest hit by the lack of rain this winter. Many have had […]

California’s Nightmare Comes True … There’s No More Water

It’s finally happening. The world is running out of fresh water…or at least in the state of California.  The Golden State has been experiencing one of its worst droughts ever.  It’s so severe that state officials issued a press release announcing that residents and farmers will be receiving less water in an attempt to conserve […]

US shale under fire over thirst for water

Water shortages have put the US oil and gas industry on a “collision course” with other users because of the large volumes needed for hydraulic fracturing, a group of leading investors has warned. Almost 40 per cent of the oil and gas wells drilled since 2011 are in areas of “extremely high” water stress, according […]

Victory for the Arctic Ocean: No Drilling Next Summer or Maybe Ever

The wild Arctic Ocean just got a blast of good news. Yesterday Shell Oil bowed to the inevitable and announced it will not be drilling for oil off the coast of Alaska this summer. Now the region’s coastal villages and its whales, dolphins, and polar bears will be spared a repeat of Shell’s disaster-laden attempt […]

Fukushima wash-up to hit US coast this year

Seaborne radiation from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will wash up on the West Coast of the US this year. That’s raising concerns among some Americans including the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area city of Fairfax, California, which passed a resolution on December 6 calling for more testing of coastal seafood. At the […]

Japanese government seeks approval to dump Fukushima groundwater into sea

The government on Monday sought approval of a nationwide fisheries federation to dump groundwater at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex into the sea on condition that the water’s contamination level is far below the legal limit. During talks with the head of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations, industry ministry officials explained that […]

Swarms of Earthquakes Shake Up Shale Gas Fields

House damage in central Oklahoma from the magnitude 5.6 earthquake in 2011.Research conducted by U.S. Geological Survey geophysicists suggests it was induced by injection into deep disposal wells in the Wilzetta North field. Photo Credit: Brian Sherrod, USGS. The locals call it “incoming,” and some compare the violence of the tremors to living in a war […]

Toward a Finite-Planet Journalism

The Ozark National Scenic Riverways Park in southeastern Missouri was created in 1964 as the first National Park unit to protect a wild and scenic river system. Enclosing 184 miles of river and in many places scarcely wider than the banks of the rivers it protects, the park gets more than a million visitors in the summer, […]

Natural Gas isn’t a Bridge Fuel, it’s a Gateway Drug

In his State of the Union, President Obama added to the conventional wisdom that supplanting coal with natural gas will act as a bridge toward a climate solution. Unfortunately, gas is more of a gateway drug than a bridge to a clean energy future. 1) It’s still a major greenhouse gas.  Sure, natural gas is […]

Nicole Foss aka Stoneleigh A Century of Challenges Peak Oil & Economic Crisis

Nicole Foss aka Stoneleigh A Century of Challenges Peak Oil & Economic Crisis videos.. Please click here to subscribe to my channel.. The world is changing any day, and just powerful people can live in a good condition in this world order. The way to be powerful is know something.. Subscribe to my channel to […]

Mass sea star deaths off US west coast puzzle scientists

Starfish have been mysteriously dying by the millions in recent months along the US west coast, worrying biologists who say the sea creatures are key to the marine ecosystem. Scientists first started noticing the mass deaths in June 2013. Different types of starfish, also known as sea stars, were affected, from wild ones along the […]

Train Carrying Fuel Oil Derails, Spills In Mississippi

A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying fuel oil and other hazardous materials derailed and was leaking in southeast Mississippi on Friday, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents, officials said. No one was injured in the incident which involved the derailment of 21 railcars, eight of which have spilled their contents, a Canadian National Railway […]

Enough is Enough

Enough Is Enough lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is enough, not more. Based on the best-selling book by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill, the film explores specific strategies to fix the financial system, reduce inequality, create jobs, and more. Drawing on the […]

Harvard report takes a look inside the Fukushima exclusion zone

The real and continuing effects from Fukushima still loom large closest to the radiation zone and within Tokyo where it impacts food, trade and water. Much of the population has a skewed view of the safety since the meltdown of several reactors occurred in 2011, in part due to unreliable reports and reluctant confirmations about […]

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