Climate and Environmental Crisis

What can be done about rising sea levels

It has been more than a third of a century since climate scientists in both the United States and Britain…

April 12, 2016

Oklahoma earthquakes spike opposition to oil and gas industry

The state of Oklahoma had five earthquakes on April 3.  There had been 29 earthquakes in the previous week, 222…

April 11, 2016

Newark children exposed to lead

Nearly half the schools in Newark, N.J., were temporarily shut down on March 9 when elevated levels of lead were…

April 8, 2016

Alabama community fights environmental racism

Perry County, Ala. -- From Alabama to Michigan comes this solidarity message: Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice “stand…

April 6, 2016

EPA ignores fire threatening nuclear waste landfill

In 1973, thousands of tons of toxic radioactive waste from processed uranium for nuclear weapons were illegally dumped into the…

March 10, 2016

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