Category Archives: Environment

UN Report Assesses Dire State of Global Soil Pollution

The UN last week issued a report assessing the dire state the world’s soil. The calls to action are inadequate to the scale of the problem.

Environmental Activists Call on Biden Administration to Pursue Ratification of the Basel Convention to Block U.S. Exports of Plastics and e-Waste

California lawmakers and NGOs call on the Biden administration to press for U.S. ratification of the 1989 Basel Convention and subsequent amendments.

Quaking Aspen: The Keystone Species that Clones Itself

The world’s oldest and heaviest living being is an aspen clone!

How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible

Oil companies hire accountants to legitmate inflated financial claims. Investors and regulators are targeting these auditors for fraud.

Lawmakers Are Firing Back At Fossil Fuel Divestors

Red state retaliation! Fossil fuel states will take business away from firms that divest from energy producers.

Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline?

Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June.

Beavers, the Landscape, Carbon, Methane, and Climate Change

Beavers engineer the landscape to create carbon sinks and methane sources. What to do?

Growing Cotton: One Small Sustainable Solution to the World Plastics Problem

The Khamir NGO demonstrates that kala cotton can be grown without copious use of water, pesticides, and chemical fesrtilizers.

Bees and Bluebells: Celebrating World Bee Day By Encouraging Pollinators in My Garden

Aorld Bee Day provided the chance to think about what plants to add to my garden to encorage bees to visit.

Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?

Report by Ausralia-based Minderoo Foundation details who the plastic pushers are and who is funding their activities.

Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives

The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.

Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports

Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?

9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability

The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.