Category Archives: Environment

US Home Insurers Are Leaving Climate Risk Areas. We Need Affordable Housing Now

When the US housing crisis meets the looming insurance crisis, only government intervention will avert catastrophe.

Fracking Fallout: Is America’s Drinking Water Safe?

After many years, concerns about the impact of fracking on aquifers are finally going mainstream.

Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources

Demand for materials like lithium that are essential to many so-called “green energy” technologies are setting up conflicts, including war.

Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition

Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs

In Search of Safer Shelters: The Challenges of Replicating Nature

Human-made shelters don’t always keep creatures out of harm’s way. Can technology help design a better birdhouse?

The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room

Ignoring the large role of the Pentagon in CO2 emissions is a huge omission in climate change remedies.

Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges

While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.

I Posed as a Private Jet Customer. This Is What I Was Told About Emissions

Private jet companies want us to believe in “guilt-free” and “carbon-neutral” flights despite their sky-high emissions

BMW: Gasoline Car Ban Poses “Imminent Risk” To European Automakers

BMW warns that the 2035 EU mandate to end sales of new fossil fuel vehicles will be a mass death event for most EU car makers

Global Biodiversity Panel Warns Humans’ Introduction of Invasive Species Threatens Nature, Food Security

With major drivers of change set to worsen. increases of invasive alien species and their negative impacts are likely to intensify.

As Hydrogen Projects Accelerate, Fears Mount About Environmental Impacts

The fossil fuel industry’s latest greenwashing effort is proving a difficult sell in the American Midwest.

Imperialism: How the Struggle of Both Classes and Nations Creates Our World

How imperailasm has determined much of the structure of the international economy and that in turn affects domestic interests.

US Weaponizes Environmental Rhetoric to Seek Water Hegemony

An update on jockeying over critical water resources and how the US is positioning itself.

Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion

The IMF made a comprehensive tally of fossil fuels subsidies. Both the level and the trajectory are sobering.

Technotage on the Rise? More Efforts to Stymie Job-Threatening, Sometimes Hazardous “Innovations”

Ant-technology action, or technotage, seems to be increasing. Is this a trend or just coincidence?