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The article highlights that Satanic mills of the Industrial Revolution began spewing coal smoke into the air, humanity has added more than a trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, changing its elemental composition. It also discusses that delay continues to be the norm despite more than three decades of increasingly grim reports from the most renowned climate scientists in the world.

Drip. Drip. Drip. Drop by drop, global warming is melting the world's ice. While the Bush administration proposes yet more studies, world climate is changing in front of our eyes. [...]

The article presents suggested strategies to reduce grocery store waste. Topics discussed include the importance of understanding food labels to avoid discarding food that can still be consumed, the benefits of segregating produce and prioritizing perishables, and the different techniques in repurposing leftover foods to practice waste-free cooking.

When Thomas Jefferson sent young Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery to survey the lands beyond the Mississippi, the West was terra incognita. Some believed the explorers [...]

When my friends learned that I would be traveling to Baffin Island in far northern Canada, they had no end of advice. Michelle knew someone who had once fallen through [...]

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, it starts to get hotter. The increase in average temperatures is gradual; what we notice are the scorching spikes, as heat records fall one after another. Winters [...]

He's the most knowledgeable environmentalist ever to reach such a high office. But is that enough? Vice Presidents Albert Gore may be the first national leader for whom Saturday Night [...]

My friend David, a writer and zealous cyclist, was bitter: I was going on a weeklong mountain-bike trip across southern Utah's remote Kaiparowits Plateau, and he was not. Mutual friends [...]

On the face of it, environmental voters do not have a very difficult choice in this year's residential election. Consumer hero Ralph Nader is running on the Green Party ticket [...]

As the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled the words of Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita: 'I am [...]

Here's a problem for the twilight years of the 20th century: What is left to steal from our children? In the 1980s, we pilfered their financial future by running up [...]

Like a sleeper wave tossing dead fish far up on the shore, last November's electoral tsunami deposited a spectacular collection of stinkers in high places throughout the halls of Capitol [...]

The United States Forest Service is the steward of more than 8 percent of the country's landmass: 191 million acres in 156 national forests. The nature of its stewardship was [...]

The article highlights various environmental and wildlife-related topics. It mentions the appearance of a beluga whale believed to have been part of a Russian intelligence operation in Norway and Sweden, the court's decision to strike down the killing authorization of grizzly bears in conflict with cattle grazing, and the challenges faced by Project Bison in Wyoming.

The article focuses on the role of wild pig (Sus scrofa) as one of the most destructive species on the planet. Topics discussed include the characteristics of wild pigs that enable it to quickly fill vacant ecological niches; the damages caused by feral pigs as they uproot, wallow, and trample soil; and the transmissible diseases carried by wild pigs and the pathogens they carry that contaminate drinking water.

The article examines the systemic racism against Black Americans by police officers in terms of traffic enforcement in the U.S. It presents studies which conclude that Black Americans face more than twice than whites of racial discrimination, threat or use of physical force, and minor traffic violations can be deadly. It suggests to de-escalation or remove police from traffic enforcement, hire more people of colors, and hold them accountable of their actions.

There are more ways to kill a cat,' said the English philosopher J. L. Austin, 'than drowning it in butter.' While most people now realize that burning fossil fuel is [...]

In this article the author talks about the U.S citizens are routinely denied an opportunity to vote for a great many reasons, and they don't have the right form of ID, their registration has lapsed, and signatures don't match exactly, have not done time in prison but haven't paid all their fines, and their African American/Latino/Asian-sounding name was purged from the voter rolls.

What makes people most nervous about Republican control of Congress? According to a post-election poll, the biggest reservation of 24 percent of respondents was the party's approach to the environment. [...]

Now that the 20th century is on its way out, maybe us cityfolk can get back to normal. For urban dwellers prior to this screwy century, 'normal' meant that most [...]

Some people apparently don't have enough to worry about. Like Michael Coffman, president of a misleadingly named outfit in Maine called Environmental Perspectives, Inc.: 'There is a well-funded, well-organized plan [...]

Things are heating up all over. In Antarctica, global warming is causing chunks of ice the size of Long Island to break off the continent. In the Republican Party, disputes [...]

Oysters are hard-core--or, rather, hard-shell--environmentalists, obdurate in their demand for healthy, pollution-free living conditions. They are, in fact, constitutionally incapable of compromise; if bivalves had environmental slogans, theirs would be [...]

The only way members of the 104th Congress could be more accommodating to their corporate sponsors would be to let them sit in their laps and push the voting button. [...]

By law and custom, certain classes of communication in our society are confidential. These include discussions between attorney and client, doctor and patient, cleric and penitent, husband and wife. Now, [...]

As a hostile Congress rushes to judgment on the Endangered Species Act, truth and fairness are as much at risk as condors and manatees. At blatantly stacked 'hearings' held in [...]

Let's face it: organic produce is not made to be sold in supermarkets. Stacked up next to the perfectly uniform ranks of bioengineered, pesticide-protected, factory-farm produce, it often looks small, [...]

It was, perhaps, the data about shrinking penis size that finally got policymakers to seriously consider banning chlorinated chemicals. For the past half century, evidence has been piling up on [...]

The article offers environmental news briefs worldwide. A school groundskeeper with non-Hodgkin lymphoma was compensated in San Francisco, California after the disease was identified to be caused by the Roundup herbicide from agrochemical firm Monsanto Co. A restaurant in Mexico City has failed to serve tarantula tacos due to the protection of red rump tarantula. Transit authorities are required to provider deodorants to subway passengers in Vienna, Austria due to high temperature.

Thousands of Americans face the choice of eating contaminated fish or not eating at all. It's a soft spring twilight by the edge of Lake Superior at the far northern [...]

Annoy a dinosaur and it can turn on you. That's what San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network learned after a year of targeting Boise Cascade for 'predatory logging practices' in endangered [...]

AN ENVIRONMENTALIST'S GUIDE TO GASOLINE IN A PERFECT WORLD, WE'D ALL COMMUTE ON ELECTRIC BUSES AND DO OUR ERRANDS by bicycle or on foot. Meanwhile, however, many of us have [...]

While British Columbia's coastal forests gain protection, virgin old-growth in its vast interior is mowed down for the U.S. market. The powerful westerly that blew down from the, icy summits [...]

The civilized approach to conservation There is no word in Italian for "wilderness." Dictionaries suggest selva, "forest," or deserto, "desert," but both fall short of the mark. Nor does natura […]

Can W.'s second-favorite energy source ever come clean? Even though she's been hearing about "clean coal" for 20 years, Citizens Coal Council director Carolyn Johnson still bursts into laughter when […]

George Bush and his oil allies are trying to exploit California's energy shortage to drill the Arctic, subsidize oil companies, and allow more air pollution. Are Americans going to buy [...]

What happens when a protected predator eats an endangered species? TOO SMALL FOR HEAT OR EVEN MUCH LIGHT, OUR BASE CAMP'S TINY FIRE served only as a human gathering point [...]