When we speak of WMD, we usually think of weapons - nuclear, biological, or chemical - that are delivered in a moment, writes Tom Engelhardt. But what of climate change: a WMD on a long fuse, already lit and smoking ...
Climate change as a weapon of mass destruction Tom Engelhardt | 1st June 2014 News Climate Change WMD USA Corporations Fossil Fuels Law intense-smokestacks-cut.jpg When we speak of WMD, we usually …
Among the risks of fracking are fragmentation of wildlife habitats, groundwater depletion, surface water pollution. The risks are compounded by a failure among companies and regulators to record or disclose essential information - from the chemicals used, to the time and place of toxic spills.
… Wildlife Biologist, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the Smithsonian …
Peru is to expand its Camisea gas project although it threatens uncontacted Amazon tribes with extinction, reports David Hill. The decision also ignores UN pleas to stop the operations.
Peru - gas expansion in Amazon 'indigenous reserve' David Hill The Guardian | 14th January 2014 News Amazon Peru Gas Fossil Fuels Indigenous Peoples yagua-peru.png Peru is to expand its Camisea gas …
The latest IPCC report urges a dash for gas to allow us to reduce the burning of coal, including shale gas from fracking. But as Alex Kirby reports, their calculations appear to be based on an arithmetical flaw.
… is professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University. He and his …
The US fossil fuel industry has been caught red-handed spying on green activists. But Adam Federman finds it has received poor value for money - and is no closer to tackling the 'existential crisis' it faces.
Spying on environmentalists - the American Petroleum Institute Adam Federman | 15th February 2014 News Fossil Fuels Fracking Politics Corporations dont-frack-ny-2.png The US fossil fuel industry has …
The US is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, write Colin Samson & Øyvind Ravna. Both require free, prior and informed consent for any intrusions on indigenous lands and stipulate that indigenous peoples shall own and control their traditional lands. The US is violating both at Standing Rock.
Civil liberties of indigenous people illegally suppressed at Standing Rock Colin Samson Øyvind Ravna | 9th December 2016 News Indigenous Peoples USA Politics Oil Fossil Fuels Corporations …
The UK government is all for fracking, writes Dr Robin Russell-Jones, but on climate grounds alone it should be banned. Evidence from the US shows that shale gas is twice as dirty as coal from a climate viewpoint due to 'fugitive emissions' of methane. That makes fracking incompatible with the UK's climate change commitments and the Paris Agreement - as the CCC may soon rule.
Fracking is twice as bad for climate as coal - will the Climate Change Committee ban it? Dr Robin Russell-Jones | 9th June 2016 News Climate Change Emissions Methane Fracking Fossil Fuels COP21 …
The UK government's insistence of pursuing fracking is based on a flawed and utterly misinformed vision of our future, write Alex Russell and Peter Strachan. Rather than delivering the prosperity they promise, large scale fracking would cause massive pollution of air and water, undermine vital export industries, and leave us with an irretrievably damaged economy and natural environment.
Challenging the delusion of cheap, safe shale gas extraction Alex Russell Peter Strachan | 20th October 2016 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Pollution UK England Wales Scotland Water Health Food …
A powerful call has gone out the the US Export-Import Bank not to finance a massive coal mine, railway, port terminal and dredged 'canal' through Australia's Great Barrier Reef with $1 billion in loans and guarantees.
US tax dollars must not finance $1bn Great Barrier Reef destruction! The Ecologist | 20th February 2015 News Coal Fossil Fuels Australia USA Finance Climate Change Natural World Oceans …
In the face of environmental atrocities like the recent spill of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, writes Grant Mincy, quiescence be damned! To stop more of the same, we must reclaim from the corporate-captured state the rights of commons and community to decide on how local resources are used.
… in Knoxville, Tennessee where he teaches both Biology and Geology at area colleges. This …
Hundreds of millions of pounds meant to be spent on green energy will soon be lavished on Britain's biggest coal fired power station to reward it for burning 7 million tonnes of wood pellets a year - meant to be 'renewable' but actually driving biodiversity loss and even worse for climate change than coal. DECC must stop this madness!
End support for Drax: stop subsidies for biomass power and phase out coal! The Undersigned | 22nd April 2015 Activism Coal Biofuels Renewables Fossil Fuels Forests UK USA Brazil …
The Indigenous Peoples of Standing Rock are by no means alone in their struggle for the recognition and preservation of their native lands: a very similar story of resistance against oil extraction is taking place further south, and has been going on for almost half a century, namely the fight of the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon against oil pollution and oppression, writes biologist ARTHUR WYNS
… development, forest ecology, conservation biology and climate change. With a group of …
Reporting from this month's international climate conference in Bonn - a preliminary to this year's COP23 in November - ARTHUR WYNS explores the glaring conflicts of interests which sees fossil fuel lobbyists in the same room as delegates discussing policy to avert climate catastrophe
… development, forest ecology, conservation biology and climate change and together with a …
Our relationship with energy presents big challenges, not only for our technology, but also for our culture, society and democracy. Paul Allen explores where it all went wrong.
The Story of Energy Paul Allen | 20th December 2013 Other Energy Fossil Fuels Alternative Energy Zero Carbon Britain Cat storyenergy.jpg Our relationship with energy presents big challenges, not only …
The World Bank's President Dr Kim proclaims his human and green concerns. But at Tata Mundra in Gujarat, India, his support for a 4,000MW coal fired power plant is devastating poor communities and despoliating their environment.
World Bank's support of Tata Mundra coal plant condemned Nicole Ghio | 7th November 2013 News Coal Fossil Fuels India Energy World Bank tata-mundra.png The World Bank's President Dr Kim proclaims his …
Lord Smith's views on fracking betray an total ignorance of a large body of published, peer reviewed science that contradicts his conclusions, writes David Lowry - not to mention those of his political masters. Is 'groupthink' leading the UK astray?
… Howarth, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, New York, …