NASA/NOAA—Gulf Dead Zone-The large region of low oxygen water often referred to as the ‘Gulf Dead Zone,’ shown here, crosses nearly 5,800 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico again in what…
Photo: Bobby Yip. A contaminated lake is seen near Dabaoshan in the northern part of China’s Guangdong province August 27, 2009.
China has cancer villages — when I first read that, I thought,…
The Obama admnistration has made a big step forward with it’s HFCs agreement with Canada and Mexico this week. Hydrofluorocarbons are used as a refrigerant, and are one of the major greenhouse…
A few days ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today said the Senate may not act on comprehensive energy and climate change legislation until next year, given the Congress’s busy fall…
This latest PSA from C.R.O.C. (the Carbon Regulatory Offset Committee) explains how YOU the taxpayer are now eligible to redeem carbon offset points just a like a multi-national corporation. It…
Ban Ki-moon speaks at the Bali climate change conference in 2007. The UN secretary general told the Guardian on Monday that negotiations ahead of Copenhagen had stalled and need to ‘get moving’….
This ad is self-explanatory for the most part, and you can read about this WWF ad campaign here.
For some recent information on Amazon deforestation, see this project by NPR called Traveling…
Secretary Salazar signs a secretarial order launching the Department of the Interior’s coordinated strategy to address climate change.
Washington, D.C. — From the DOI: Yesterday, Secretary of the…
While the U.S. Congress is consumed with health care reform, the EPA is moving ahead with environmental issues related to coal surface mining, (among other things) and the Clean Water Act authority…
Sea Barriers on the Thames in England
Sea levels are already rising, slowly, along the coasts of several countries, including the United States. By the end of the century, (or earlier) New York’s…
Climate change and ensuing sea-level rise threaten to increase the severity of flooding and to damage the infrastructure of coastal communities.
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists…
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said recently that at the current rate of addressing climate change, we will not make it. “Serious Climate Change is Equal to ‘Game Over’“. It’s assumed by…
The U.S. Geological Survey has released the results of a long-term study of key glaciers in western North America, reporting this month that glacial shrinkage is rapid and accelerating and a result…
President Obama just gave a very good speech tonight (9/9/09) about health care reform, and how he will hold firm in expecting a public option in any health care reform bill. While he was giving…
This is a huge positive development if the EPA is successful. The beginning of the end of mountaintop removal mining is here at least. Citing “clear evidence” of likely environmental damage, the…
