Why the world will never change

As the world population reaches in excess of 7 Billion people of which China and India make up over 3 billion alone, one has to wonder how the world would change in the next few years.  Well, it won’t. You see, the world exists cause everybody on earth plays an integral part in how the […]

The Peak Of The Oil Wars

Fossil fuel use has damaged the Global Climate System and continues to do so (Will This Float Your Boat – 3). The war on Oil-Qaeda has yet to be declared, even though commerce in the products of Oil-Qaeda is the greatest threat to the U.S. Navy (Has The Navy Fallen For The Greatest Hoax?). In […]

What You Should Be Doing NOW to Protect Yourself from Radiation

It is well-known that potassium iodide works to protect against damage from radioactive iodine by saturating our body (the thyroid gland, specifically) with harmless iodine, so that our bodies are unable to absorb radioactive iodine from nuclear accidents. For example, the World Health Organization notes: The thyroid gland is at particular risk from irradiation from […]

Jeremy Leggett: “Make No Mistake, This Is An Energy Civil War”

Jeremy Leggett’s new book ‘The Energy of Nations: risk blindness and the road to renaissance‘ is an inspirational, page-turning telling of the evolving tale of peak oil, climate change, and economic crisis, and how the three issues intertwine and interweave. I found it gripping, and what comes through strongly is firstly the huge potential of […]

Oil Sands and the Environment

I spent the past week in the heart of the Athabasca oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. I was there as a guest of the Canadian government, which hosts annual tours for small groups of journalists and energy analysts. During my trip I was told that the only person who ever asked as many questions […]

We’re In The Most Dangerous Moment Since the Cuban Missile Crisis

Scientists Warn of Extreme Risk We’ve long said that the greatest short-term threat to humanity is from the fuel pools at Fukushima. The Japanese nuclear agency recently green-lighted the removal of the spent fuel rods from Fukushima reactor 4′s spent fuel pool. The operation is scheduled to begin this month. The head of the U.S. […]

Shell Accused of Misreporting Oil Spills as Pipeline Thefts

Amnesty International says it has uncovered proof that Shell Petroleum conceals the amount of oil it spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. Shell maintains most of the oil it loses is due to theft, not to slipshod operations and management. An oil spill near the town of Warri last May devastated local farmers, who grow […]

GM food will be essential for a hungry world

During the recent Festival of Ideas hosted by the University of Melbourne a distinguished panel of researchers working at the forefront of food security discussed the often controversial issue of genetic modification for food crops. Katherine Smith canvasses the views they shared with their audience. Email article Print Reprints & permissions “We know that by […]

Another Fukushima Quake Would Mean US Evacuation, ‘Bye Bye Japan’

Award winning scientist says another 7.0 earthquake hitting Fukushima would mean US evacuations, ‘bye bye Japan’. Award winning scientist David Suzuki has gone on record in a public talk posted online just days ago in saying that in the event of another seven or above earthquake, which he says has about a 95% chance of […]

Fukushima Debris “Island” The Size Of Texas Near US West Coast

While it took Japan over two years to admit the Fukushima situation on the ground is “out of control“, a development many had predicted for years, a just as important topic is what are the implications of this uncontrolled radioactive disaster on not only the local environment and society but also globally, particularly Japan’s neighbor […]

The Club of Rome Reloaded

The ideas brought by the Club of Rome with the famous 1972 report “The Limits to Growth” went through a period of eclipse starting with the mid 1980s. It was the result of a campaign of demolition that succeeded in convincing everyone that the report had made “wrong predictions” about the future. It wasn’t so; […]

Cost of nuts to soar as bee population dies

THE price of nutty treats and snacks is about to soar as almond farmers struggle to pollinate their crops because of dwindling bee populations. The almond market around the world is worth about $5 billion a year, and about 80 per cent of the planet’s almonds come from California, the Daily Mail reports. But farmers […]

We’re running out of water to grow food, Lester Brown warns

Forget peak oil. It’s peak water we should worry about, says Lester R. Brown. “Water is far more important than oil,” according to the prolific author, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and now president of the nonprofit Earth Policy Institute. Brown, whose early warnings about the dangers of climate change and resource overuse have made […]

Revolt and Change Our Lives

It’s a sign of a really good essay when bits of it linger with you for days after you’ve read it and it keeps popping up in your mind. Naomi Klein’s “Why Science is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives Before We Destroy the Planet” is one of those. Her theme? “Global capitalism […]

Civilizations Rise and Fall with Soil Quality: Dangers for Modern Agriculture

Civilizations rise and fall depending on the quality of their soil. With good farmland, cities and towns can flourish. Without it, though, they can easily fall. Now, scientists have revealed that the modern world could suffer a similar fate to past civilizations if soil quality degrades enough. “Cultivating soil continuously for too long destroys the […]

Fracking Uses and Loses More Water than Previously Believed

Fracking’s water footprint is higher than previously thought, according to a new report that combined data from many sources to provide one of the most comprehensive looks at how water is used by the oil and gas industry.  The researchers from Downstream Strategies and San Jose State University tracked water use, reuse, and disposal in […]

‘Frack Check’ Videos Blast Claims Made By Oil And Gas Industry

An anti-fracking group in Colorado has released a series of ads blasting claims made by the oil and gas industry in the state as four communities prepare to vote on bans or moratoriums on drilling and fracking in their regions. Fort Collins, Broomfield and Boulder voters all face ballot initiatives that would put a moratorium […]

‘Melting’ Starfish Along West Coast Prompt Fukushima Concerns

Scientists are attempting to find out why one species of starfish is literally melting in the waters off of Washington state and Canada. Biologists in Seattle took to the Puget Sound waters last weekend to collect sick and healthy sunflower starfish for testing. Several labs including one at Cornell University will examine and compare samples […]

Bangladesh: The population problem

Early marriage and pregnancy must be lowered DESPITE significant successes in reduced infant and maternal mortality rates, as well as, to an extent, fertility rates, overpopulation remains a key concern in Bangladesh, which has the highest population density in the world and a projected population of 20 crore by the year 2050. Experts claim that […]

Shale Gas Represents ‘Low Risk’ to Public Health

The UK Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG) announced Thursday that it welcomes a report by Public Health England that has concluded that shale gas extraction emissions represent a “low” risk to public health. The report, published Thursday, focuses on the potential impact of chemicals and radioactive material from all stages of shale gas extraction, including hydraulic fracturing. […]

We Break It, We Buy It

As a child, I remember walking through stores that displayed crystal, glass, pottery, and other fragile items on their display shelves. In these waiting-for-an-accident-to-happen establishments – especially to an energetic young boy – It wasn’t uncommon to see a prominently displayed sign that read “You break it, you buy it.” Of course, I knew even […]

Peak Oil May Keep Catastrophic Climate Change in Check

Even as governments worldwide have largely failed to limit emissions of global warming gases, the decline of fossil fuel production may reduce those emissions significantly, experts said yesterday during a panel discussion at the Geological Society of America meeting. Conventional production of oil has been on a plateau since 2005, said James Murray, a professor […]

Fukushima Is Here

  500 people assembled on October 19th on Ocean Beach in San Francisco and formed the letters with their bodies to demonstrate their growing concern about eventual fallout on the west coast. Credit and More Information: FukushimaResponse.org An ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North […]

Gulf of Mexico: “There is no life out there”

Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Manager Jereme Phillips reports oil on a refuge beach in Alabama in June of 2010. Three years later, the hits just keep on coming. (Photo: Jennifer Strickland USFWS) The Gulf Oil spill is old news, right? 2010? Over and done with. The seafood industry has recovered. tourists are back, BP […]

We Can Feed the World / No We Can’t / No We Won’t

There are, and have been for a few decades now, competing narratives about food, hunger, and population. And supporting these narratives are a large number of divergent arguments from people with an even larger array of ideological perspectives. I’ve been puzzled for some time that these narratives not only have co-existed for as long as […]

Fuel Removal From Fukushima’s Reactor 4 Threatens ‘Apocalyptic’ Scenario

An operation with potentially “apocalyptic” consequences is expected to begin in a little over two weeks from now – “as early as November 8″ – at Fukushima’s damaged and sinking Reactor 4, when plant operator TEPCO will attempt to remove over 1300 spent fuel rods holding the radiation equivalent of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs from a […]

The ocean is broken

Nothing could have prepared Ivan Macfadyen for the devastation all around him as he sailed the Pacific. It was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it. Not the absence of sound, exactly. The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves sloshed against the fibreglass […]

Fukushima plant ‘undamaged’ after 7.3 earthquake off coast of Japan

      The operators of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant said there was no further damage caused to the wrecked plant early on Saturday, despite a magnitude 7.1 to 7.3 earthquake striking offshore and triggering a small tsunami. An earthquake official with the Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake was an aftershock of the […]

100s of U.S. state’s oil spills not publicized

North Dakota, the No. 2 oil producing state behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None of them were reported to the public, officials said. According to records obtained by The Associated Press, the pipeline spills, many of them small, are among some 750 “oil field […]

7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Japan – Tsunami Warning Issued For Fukushima

  UPDATE: Tepco Orders Evacuation of Fukushima Power Plant Workers Via RT: Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has ordered the evacuation of workers from near the sea wall at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following the earthquake, local NHK reports. People in coastal regions around the Fukushima Prefecture coastline have been advised to move to […]

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