What Exxon Knew About Climate Change
By Bill McKibben The New Yorker September 18, 2015Wednesday morning, journalists at InsideClimate News, a Web site that has won the Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on oil spills, published the first...
View ArticleKeystone XL Construction – Deconstructed
Wrong Kind of Green November 10, 2015Many people remain under the assumption that the “Keystone XL” was nothing more than a proposal on paper that, thanks to the campaigning by the non-profit...
View ArticleShutting down pipelines is way easier than anyone thought
The Cat is Out of the BagBy AnonymousAfter a years-long, hard-fought campaign against Line 9, which employed a diversity of tactics, from lobbying to legal battles to direct action, Line 9 transported...
View ArticleNo bliss in this ignorance: the great Fukushima nuclear cover-up
Linda Pentz Gunter The Ecologist 20th February 2016The Japanese were kept in the dark from the start of the Fukushima disaster about high radiation levels and their dangers to health, writes Linda...
View ArticleClean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can do that
by Jason HickelEarlier this year media outlets around the world announced that February had broken global temperature records by a shocking amount. March broke all the records, too. In June our screens...
View ArticleStop burning fossil fuels now: there is no CO2 'technofix'
German researchers have demonstrated once again that the best way to limit climate change is to stop burning fossil fuels now. In a “thought experiment” they tried another option: the future dramatic...
View ArticleFocus on Lakota Pipeline Protests
Native American protesters are currently conducting protests against a pipeline being across Lakota lands. The Dakota Access Pipeline project was recently approved by the U.S. Congress and will run...
View ArticleLong-promised nuclear revival has run out of steam
Paul Brown The Ecologist 4th January 2017A legacy of lies and covered-up accidents has left nuclear energy with a serious credibility gap, writes Paul Brown. But poor safety is only the beginning of...
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