Category Archives: Environment

Don’t Depend on Wall Street for Renewable Energy Investment

Why Big Finance is part of the energy problem, not the solution.

You and I May Never Summit Everest But Microplastics Already Have

Microsplastics have been found on the summit of Mount Everest; Seems no place, even earth’s most remote locations, is witout this scourge.

Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change

After decades of denial and delay by big agribusiness, the pesticides industry now appears to have become a climate champion.

Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)

Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.

“Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions

COVID-19 provides a chance to reassess our relationship with flying, a major source of global emissions.

Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic

Absent immediate and drastic action to limit plastics use, global emissions will increase as incineration is used for waste disposal.

Save the Birds: Study Adds to Calls to Ban Dogs from Beaches During Shorebird Nesting Season

Study shows nesting shorebirds are flushed from their nests during nesting season by dogs, whether or not on leads.

Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?

The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.

New Jersey’s “Best in US” Plastic Ban Still Very Limited, Makes Concessions

A new law in New Jersey makes clear how far we have to go on getting rid of plastic.

Plastic Watch: Plastic Pushers Seek to Use Trade Negotiations to Rescind Plastic Bans

Plastic pushers attempt to strongarm Kenya and the UK into using more plastic under the guise of free trade as world oil prices collapse.

Will There Be a Second Dust Bowl? And What Happened to the Topsoil From the First One?

A rise in airborne dust over the Great Plains has scientists worried, and rightly.

With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-Billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public

Yet another example otf how the oil industry is subsidized, here by another way it dumps environmental costs on the public at large.

Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?

Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.

Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis

The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?

Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below

Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.