Protesters Say “No” to Climate Market

The short-cuts that the United Nations system is offering companies to profit from strategies against global warming were the target of loud protests on the Day of Action for Climate Justice. Two separate demonstrations, of thousands of people each, were held Tuesday as the climate change summit that ends Friday in the southeastern Mexican resort […]

A Primer for the Post-Carbon World

“When it comes to controversial issues, population is in a class by itself. Activist working to reduce global population growth are attacked by the Left for supposedly ignoring human-rights issues or glossing over Western over-consumption. They are attacked by the Right for supposedly favoring widespread abortion and promiscuity. Others think the problem will be solved […]

The Genesis of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Full Report

Theories on the cause of the Deepwater Horizon disaster are a dime a dozen. Everybody has one. The problem is that all the theories widely reported in the media and on the internet are wrong. Even the most extensive analysis done on the disaster yet, BP’s own Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report makes wrong assumptions […]

A Special Report : The Gulf of Mexico is Dying

A Special Report on the BP Gulf Oil Spill By Dr. Tom Termotto It is with deep regret that we publish this report.  We do not take this responsibility lightly, as the consequences of the following observations are of such great import and have such far-reaching ramifications for the entire planet.  Truly, the fate of […]

The World Is Running Out of Fishing Grounds

An expanding world population is developing an increasing appetite for fish. And that’s a problem for both people and the fish. A study published Thursday indicates that the world’s fishing industry in running out of new ocean fishing grounds, and that is depleting older ones through unsustainable harvesting practices. The study was conducted by researchers […]

New threat to global food security as phosphate supplies become increasingly scarce

New threat to global food security as phosphate supplies become increasingly scarce 29 November 2010 A new report from the Soil Association reveals that supplies of phosphate rock are running out faster than previously thought and that declining supplies and higher prices of phosphate are a new threat to global food security. ‘A rock and […]

Billions at stake as BP disputes spill size

BP is challenging the government’s estimate that its damaged Macondo well gushed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last summer, adopting a strategy that could save it billions of dollars in federal fines for the offshore spill. The London-based oil giant, contending that the government’s numbers are “highly unreliable,” is poised […]

The Utter Futility of Reducing Carbon Emissions

The attempt to reduce human carbon dioxide emissions to control global warming is completely and utterly pointless and doomed to failure. Well, perhaps I should qualify that statement a bit. Reducing man made carbon dioxide emissions is completely and utterly pointless if your goal is to change the future climate. On the other hand if […]

FOOD IN 2030: Eight billion mouths

It’s no coincidence that our atmosphere happens to have the right amount of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide for us to survive in: we, and all the living things on Earth, evolved jointly with the geological development of the planet. Humanity has, however, now reached the point where we, as a single species, are having […]

Maurice Strong: The Artic A Potential Source of Conflict

As the Arctic has only recently moved toward centre stage, there is still much we must do to understand the true nature of the changes that are occurring there, writes Maurice Strong, who was the Secretary General of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the first Executive Director of the UN Environment […]

Feeding the world: The top 100 questions for global agriculture

Despite a significant growth in food production over the past half-century, one of the most important challenges facing society today is how to feed an expected population of some nine billion by the middle of the 20th century. To meet the expected demand for food without significant increases in prices, it has been estimated that […]

Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization: The Current Peak Oil Crisis

This report is a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on energy resources and global climate and environmental change. The findings clearly indicate that the convergence of peak energy resources and dangerous anthropogenic climate and environmental change will likely have a disastrous impact in the near- and long-term on the quantity and quality of […]

Map of the World’s Countries Rearranged by Population

What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on? The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map. In the world described by it, the differences in […]

Peak Oil 2010 Executive Summary Report on ASPO-USA

Peak oil is here now. It is about flows and natural limits. ASPO-USA, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas held its annual conference and meeting in Washington D.C. in 2010. Energy director for the Michigan Environmental Council, David Gard, attended the conference, and provides an in depth executive summary for those […]

UN launches World Population Report

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has launch this year’s edition of the State of the World’s Population Report to guide policy makers and researchers to institute measures to prevent conflicts and enhance development. The report under the theme: “From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal: Generation of Change,” draws attention to how protracted conflicts are […]

It’s growth rate, not size that matters

It’s growth rate, not size, that matters November 14, 2010 – 12:39PM The federal opposition says the size of Australia’s population in the coming decades is irrelevant provided it comes about as the result of sustainable growth. A Treasury briefing prepared for Prime Minister Julia Gillard states that even if net migration is reduced to […]

Water Crisis in the Arab World

The Arab world is heading for a huge water crisis in just five years. A recent report by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) found that water levels are already dangerously low for the region, which contains 5% of the world’s population—about 360 million people—but only 1.4% of freshwater access. Today, the Arab […]

Sustainable Growth Is An Oxymoron

I want to discuss a topic, climate change, which I think will affect our lives and our science dramatically in the coming years. As Bill McKibben observes in his recent book “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet,” many politicians and other policy makers have had a habit of discussing global warming as […]

Population bomb still a fizzer

MORE than 40 years ago, American biologist Paul Ehrlich sketched a doomsday scenario for planet Earth in his book The Population Bomb. Adding more people to the planet would inevitably lead to mass starvation and ecological disaster. Since the publication of the book, the global population has nearly doubled but most of its gloomy predictions […]

The oil spill’s other effects

Several surveys have documented some of the after-effects on coastal residents of the oil spill that resulted after the Apr. 20 blowout of BP PLC’s Macondo well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Researchers at Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, in collaboration with the Children’s Health Fund and The Marist Poll, interviewed more […]

Population growth is a choice

When it comes to questions of population, ignorance often prevails. The business lobby in Australia, often through its many and varied “independent” centres and institutes, leads the way. Population growth propoganda specialises in denial. Photo: Cameron Richardson.Population growth propoganda specialises in denial. Photo: Cameron Richardson. Through its complex web of public relations activities, it pushes […]

Gulf Spill Cleanup Proceeds Amid Mistrust

A couple of weeks ago, enormous orange-brownish strings of something were seen floating out here in the open water near the mouth of the Mississippi. The water looked like chocolate syrup in some parts and Coca-Cola in others, said Cindy Cruikshank, who has been fishing for 53 of her 59 years. It smelled like an […]

Lurching from One Disaster to the Next

So say experts like Peter Walker, director of the Tufts University-based Feinstein International Center near Boston. In late 2008, his organisation authored a report titled “Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change” for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “We may be keeping people alive, we may be helping people to survive,” Walker […]

Halliburton Says BP Is to Blame in Gulf

Halliburton, whose failed cement job on the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was identified as a contributing factor to the deadly blowout by a presidential investigative panel on Thursday, is defending its work and assigning the blame for the accident to BP. In a six-page statement issued late Thursday night, Halliburton questioned tests […]

Halliburton Knew of Cement Flaws Before Spill

Halliburton knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the presidential commission investigating the accident said on Thursday. In the first official finding of […]

Feeding the Hungry Billions

There is a population boom worldwide and natural resources are decreasing fast. With an additional 40 million persons to the world population trends, indicates alarming food situations likely to grow worse by the passage of time. The gap between demand and supply of food grains is increasing fast with developing countries worst affected. The assumption […]

Why Malthus Was Wrong

For a few decades in the 20th century, it seemed as humanity’s triumphs of public health were turning into an ironic and deadly trap. Because more babies were surviving infancy than ever before, and more adults were safe from deadly diseases, the human race’s numbers were growing at a spectacular rate—from 2 billion in 1930 […]

Geoengineering for a Desperate Planet

Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the sun’s heating rays away from the planet. Climate engineering or geoengineering refers to any large-scale, human- made effort to manipulate the planet to […]

BP CEO says oil spill blown out of proportion

Most scientists believe that the full effects of the BP oil disaster won’t be known for some time. But BP wouldn’t be the sort of company that created major oil spills if it didn’t leap boldly into the breach. So the oil giant’s newly minted CEO is apparently ready to lay down his own verdict: […]

Bangladesh Govt rejects UN report on country’s population

The government has rejected the statistics of the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) annual report ‘State of World Population 2010’ that has said Bangladesh’s present population is 164 million. “We have rejected the report and will issue a letter to the UNFPA seeking its clarification,” finance minister AMA Muhith told newsmen after a meeting held […]

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