Scientists Discover Key Molecule Linking Neonicotinoids to Honey Bee Viruses

A team of scientists in Italy believe they have found the molecular mechanism through which neonicotinoid pesticides adversely impacts the immune system of honey bees. The team’s experiments suggest that exposure to neonicotinoids results in increased levels of a particular protein in bees that inhibits a key molecule involved in the immune response, making the […]

The United States of Drought

As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage. By 2060, the gap between water supply and demand could grow to nearly four billion cubic metres per year – 10 times the amount of […]

Outsourcing Pollution and Energy-Intensive Production

This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute. Download: Outsourcing Pollution and Energy-Intensive Production Outsourcing Pollution and Energy-Intensive Production – Vandana Shiva Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

Next Oil Sands Threat: Cracking Caprock

  Clean up operation of a steam release at Devon Energy, 2010. A recent blow-out at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s Primrose facility in northern Alberta sheds light on a serious but little discussed topic in the oil sands industry: caprock integrity. The blow-out allowed more than 10,000 barrels of steamed bitumen to seep into the […]

Public Vasectomy With Band-Aid Promotes Family Planning

“I can feel a bit of tugging, but it doesn’t hurt at all,” said Chris Wiren, as a surgeon performed a 10-minute vasectomy on the 39-year-old father of four live on stage. Wiren’s operation was the first of 16 performed in front of hundreds of people last week at the Science Exchange in Adelaide, Australia. […]

World Population Estimate: 7,119,370,068 at 15:04 UTC (EST+5) Oct 22, 2013

World Population Estimate: 7,119,370,068 at 15:04 UTC (EST+5) Oct 22, 2013 newsroom America

Limits to Nature

Guest Post by Graeme Maxton We cannot manage the limits of nature because they are limits. We want to live in a world without limits. Like long distance runners and racing car drivers, humankind is always trying to overcome limits, to achieve more. As we make breakthroughs, it is easy to think that we already […]

China smog emergency shuts city of 11 million people

Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China’s largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country’s first major air pollution crisis of the winter. An index measuring PM2.5, or particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5), reached a reading of 1,000 […]

Water radiation soars at Fukushima No. 1

Radiation levels in groundwater under Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are soaring, Tepco said Friday after taking samples from an observation well. Tepco said 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting substances such as strontium were detected in water sampled Thursday from the well located some 15 meters from a storage […]

State Of Emergency Declared As Another Oil/Gas Train Derails In Canada

Thirteen cars came off the tracks around 1 a.m. Saturday — 9 of which were carrying liquefied petroleum gas and four that were carrying crude oil. The derailment prompted local officials to declare a state of emergency and the evacuation of the nearly hamlet of Gainford about 80km west of Edmonton. As AP reports, an […]

Ugo Bardi: The Legacy of the Club of Rome

  Here is a written version of the speech I gave at the meeting held in Bucharest in occasion of the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Rumanian section of the Club of Rome (ARCoR), on Oct 17, 2013. It was a somewhat formal reunion, so my speech was a little more formal than […]

Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well

Radioactivity levels in a well near a storage tank at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have risen immensely on Thursday, the plant’s operator has reported. Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on Friday they detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances – including strontium – at the […]

Mi’kmaq Blockde

For over two weeks now, a coalition of people including local Mi’kmaq residents, and anglophone and Acadian settlers, have blockaded the road leading to an equipment compound leased to South Western Energy or SWN. SWN is a Texas based energy company, that has been attempting to conduct natural gas exploration in the area’s shale formations. […]

World Vasectomy Day Encourages Men to Cut … The Population

October 18th, believe it or not, is World Vasectomy Day. According to the holiday’s designated website, World Vasectomy Day (WVD) is the “largest male-oriented global family planning event ever. The goal is to have 1,000 vasectomies performed across 25 countries in 24 hours.*” This event, which includes live screenings of the 15-minute procedure and other such […]

No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans

Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world’s oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday. “It took a year to analyse and synthesise all of the studies on the impacts of climate change on ocean species,” Camilo Mora, an ecologist at University of […]

Save the Oceans, Feed the World

In 1614, Captain John Smith arrived off the coast of Maine searching for minerals, whales, and wealth. But the greatest bounty he discovered was actually fish. Smith and his crew stumbled upon vast schools of cod, a valuable commercial fish and a kitchen staple in Europe. Dried or salted, the nourishment from North America’s rich […]

North Dakota farmer makes crude discovery: largest oil spill on US soil

When Steve Jensen saw crude oil bubbling up from the ground on his North Dakota farm, he knew immediately he wasn’t having a Jed Clampett moment. Unlike the classic “Beverly Hillbillies” character who struck it rich with oil, Jensen figured the “black gold” was coming from the pipeline that runs under his 1,800-acre wheat farm, […]

North Dakota Farmer Stumbles on Massive Oil Leak

A farming harvesting his fields in North Dakota has come across a massive oil spill, undetected long enough to become the size of seven football fields.   Local media reports cite farmer Steve Jensen as saying the crude appeared to becoming from a rupture in an underground pipeline operated by Tesoro Corp. The farmer noted […]

“Once In A Decade Storm” Batters Fukushima

While the broader public’s attention continues to be distracted by the circus that America’s legislative and executive branches have become (an expected development at a time when the monetary branch reigns supreme), the real, non-scripted and truly devastating catastrophe continue to unfold in Japan, and specifically in Fukushima, where both TEPCO and the government have […]

Conserve Water or Perish, Warns U.N. Chief

Just 17 years from now, nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent. “We must address unsustainable use,” U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared earlier this week at the Budapest water summit in Hungary. “This is the International Year of Water Cooperation. And we need joint […]

Global Population: What Will Become of Our Over-Exploited World ?

Fred Pearce is the author of “The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet’s Surprising Future” and an environment consultant at New Scientist magazine. Alan Weisman once famously imagined “The World Without Us,” in which Earth heals itself after humanity’s mysterious disappearance. Now, in “Countdown,” he engages with the real future of our overpopulated and over-exploited […]

World’s Largest Oil Spills

The world has followed news of from British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon’s blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico since the oil rig exploded April 22, 2010. By the time engineers temporarily capped the well July 15, it had poured an estimated 3.0 million to 8.7 million barrels of oil into Gulf waters. […]

Global population upheaval grows

The world is going through huge population upheavals with no end in sight this century. Europe and east Asia are ageing, while developing countries across Asia and sub-Saharan Africa – with relatively young populations – could reap a so-called “demographic dividend”. The impact of families in the developed world having fewer children has already started […]

North Dakota suffers first big oil spill

A Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline has spilled more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil into a rural North Dakota field, the biggest leak in the state since it became a major U.S. producer. The pipeline was carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale play, which has boosted North Dakota’s state production to the second-biggest in […]

3 Disturbing Fukushima Facts The Government Is Covering Up

The mega Fukushima meltdown continues to assault the planet on a daily basis with barrages of radioactive fallout that have infiltrated everything from our international food supply to the Pacific Ocean. But instead of alerting us to this reality and helping us to be prepared for what’s coming, both the United States and Japanese governments […]

Sustainability of Agriculture Depends on Fracking Regulations

California is the 4th largest oil and gas producing state; according to the Western States Petroleum Association, California received a combined $5.8 billion in fuel excise, corporate, and personal income taxes in 2009. The state is also home to the largest oil shale play in the nation, the Monterey Shale – containing 15 billion barrels […]

Energy Reality: What We’re For

This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute. Download What We’re For What We’re For — Post Carbon Institute

No Planes, No Trains, And No Automobiles As Record Smog Shuts Beijing

China started re-opening roads and airports in Beijing and surrounding areas that have been shut by record high levels of smog. An estimated 430 million people were expected to travel during the holiday that ends today and with the air quality index “improving” from its highest possible level to below 200 (the line between heavy […]

How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times

What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines? Such are the topics of conversation at the 23rd annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), […]

Fukushima and our inability to gauge risk

Perhaps the most important energy story on the planet right now is the precarious situation for fuel rods stored in a damaged building at the Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan, site of the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history. It’s a story that has actually been important for a while because an earthquake–in […]

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