Climate and Environmental Crisis

Behind the death of energy mogul Aubrey McClendon

Aubrey McClendon did not invent fracking — the process that unleashed widespread drilling for natural gas — but he convinced…

March 10, 2016

Zika, microcephaly and global climate change

Are deforestation and global climate change responsible for the Zika crisis sweeping across equatorial countries in the Western Hemisphere? Are…

February 25, 2016

Changing the environment: What the Paris conference showed

Part 1 Changing the environment: From Kyoto to Storm Frank Jan. 18 — Stock markets around the world have been sliding…

January 22, 2016

Behind the poisoning of Flint’s children

The lead poisoning of children in Flint, Mich., now a national scandal, was entirely preventable. Lead is poison. People exposed…

January 13, 2016

Massive methane leak endangers Los Angeles and environment

A rupture in a 7-inch gas pipe at a well belonging to the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Facility in Los…

January 13, 2016

Arctic climate change threatens turmoil

The Arctic has been warming more rapidly than any other area on Earth. Since it is sparsely populated, with not…

January 10, 2016

Changing the environment: From Kyoto to Storm Frank

Jan. 4 — The spread of human beings to every continent on our planet has been accompanied by great challenges…

January 6, 2016

Revolution and climate change

The COP21 climate conference has ended, and the corporate media are begging us to believe that a breakthrough has occurred,…

December 15, 2015

France attacks climate activists

The irony couldn’t have been more in-your-face. The French government, after the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, declared a…

December 1, 2015

China moves decisively on global warming

China is the most populous country in the world, with 1.3 billion people. In little more than a generation, its…

November 2, 2015