What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
Why it behooves you to care about air quality, specifically PM2.5 pollution.
Read more...Category Archives: Environment
Book Excerpt: How Coyotes Found a New Homeland in the East
The explosion of populations east of the Mississippi was made possible by logging and the slaughter of wolves.
Read more...Bill Gates Wants to Set the Environmental Agenda Ahead of COP30: It’s Not Surprising
Bill Gates’s bid to reframe the environmental agenda suggests it’s often set top-down, serving a particular set of interests, in this case, AI
Read more...Mission Impossible: Why the US Cannot Reverse Its Manufacturing Decline
Debunking magical thinking about the US regaining its manufacturing mojo at scale.
Read more...Data, Power and Emissions: How AI’s Growth May Slow Down the Green Transition
AI’s power demands are producing heavier use of fossil fuels to generate electricity.
Read more...Coffee Break: Political Grownups, Bending Time, CDC at Sea, Snakebites, and AI Again
Part the First: Where Have All the Grownups Gone? Corey Robin is always worth reading (the first edition of The Reactionary Mind is much better than the second), and lately he has been more active publicly, here asking about the grownups: For a long time now, I’ve thought that you’re never really a grownup until […]
Read more...Revolt Against Data Centers Spreading Around the World
Data centers’ rapidly rising resource demands is fuelling rising internatiional opposition.
Read more...Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
A look at some of the newest greenwashing phrases being road tested at COP30. The worst is many will go down easily.
Read more...FEMA Buyouts vs. Risky Real Estate: New Maps Reveal Post-flood Migration Patterns Across the US
Selling may be good for homeowners who can find buyers, but it doesn’t make the community more resilient.
Read more...How a Bush-Era ‘Green’ Solution Made Climate Change Worse
Journalist Michael Grunwald digs into uncomfortable truths about food and agriculture in his new book, ‘We Are Eating the Earth.’
Read more...The Rising Carbon Footprint of Electricity in the United States
On the policy of increasing electricity generation without decarbonization, as in increased reliance on gas.
Read more...Green Capitalism in the Americas: False Solutions, Real Threats
How policies toward climate change containment amount to green capitalism, as in eco-colonialism and environmental degradation
Read more...Coffee Break: Vaccines Continued, Ancient Art, Renewables, Ignis Fatuus Explained, Good Sleep, and Jane Goodall
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Read more...How Climate Change Is Driving Home Insurance Turmoil
Climate-fueled storms and wildfires are increasing costs and pushing insurers to the limit. What happens if the market breaks?
Read more...Chasing Down Old Nazis in New York Court: Suit Against Volkswagen Controlling Shareholders and Key Managers Over Massive Clean Diesel Fraud
A running battle in New York sees to hold Volkswagen controlling shareholders and key execs accountable for the flagrant “dieselgate” scam
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