How Long will We let Coal Plants Mercury-Poison Us?
Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - Mercury is a nerve poison, steady exposure to which causes all kinds of neurological and mental problems, as well as health problems. I keep...
View ArticleCould This Scary Report Get Americans to Care About Climate?
Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Jan. 15 - Lately we're being bombarded by news about just how dramatically climate change is transforming the United States. Early last week, we learned that 2012 was...
View ArticleBuilding a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources
care2.com - By Rob Dietz, Dan O’Neill - Jan. 15 (Editorial) - Our pursuit of never-ending economic growth has become dysfunctional. With each passing day, we are witnessing more and more uneconomic...
View ArticleEuropean Mammals Make Like Gérard Depardieu, Flee to Russia
Mother Jones - By James West - Jan. 16 (Comment) - By 2080, Russia might witness a vast mammalian invasion, as sub-arctic European animals flee global warming and adapt to a thawing tundra. New...
View ArticleFive Things Your Doctor Should Tell You, But Won't
Mother Jones - By Kiera Butler - Feb. 11 - As a lifelong hypochondriac, I've always been comforted by the Hippocratic oath. What an excellent idea, having doctors pledge to put patients first. So I was...
View ArticleThe Strategic Importance of Keystone XL
Mother Jones - By Michael Klare - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now...
View ArticleGood Trade Policy: Three 'Thought Experiments'
Huffington Post - By Stan Sorscher - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - what if -- and here is the third thought experiment -- we could write trade agreements that protect investor rights and help grow trade AND...
View ArticleBill Maher Takes On Horse Meat Scandal, Slams California Vote Against GMO...
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View ArticleCPA Members Visit 105 Congressional Offices
prosperousamerica.org - By Sara Haimowitz - Mar. 15 (Press Release) - Fixing the trade deficit was CPA’s number one issue. The U.S. has the worst trade performance of any country in the history of the...
View ArticleClimate Change Denying Congressman to Head Subcommittee on Climate Change
Mother Jones - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - As the new chairman of a key House subcommittee on the environment , Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) will be one of the GOP's leading actors when it comes to the...
View ArticleThe Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet [With...
AlterNet - By Tara Lohan - Mar. 30 (Review) - If you want to understand how much energy costs, don't look at your electric bill; instead get a copy of the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the...
View ArticleOne Weird Trick for Getting Republicans To Care About Climate
Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - It"s a truism at this point to observe that Americans are deeply polarized—along party lines—on climate change. The surveys that have attested to...
View Article5 Ways Biotech Is Changing Our Pets and Wildlife
Mother Jones - By Sarah Zhang - Apr. 08 (Review) - Ever since humans first tamed a friendly wolf, we've been shaping animals to conform to our needs and wants. Just look at a Siberian husky next to a...
View ArticleAl Gore Is Fat, Therefore Global Warming Doesn't Exist
Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Apr. 11 (Comment) - Ever notice that when conservatives want to attack the science of global warming—or the idea that we ought to do something about it—they almost...
View ArticleWATCH: Tar Sands Timmy Needs a Pipeline [Fiore Cartoon]
Mother Jones - By Mark Fiore - Apr. 11 () - Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San...
View ArticleHow Science Can Predict Where You Stand on Keystone XL
Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Apr. 17 (Comment) - On February 17, more than 40,000 climate change activists—many of them quite young—rallied in Washington, DC, to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline,...
View ArticleSaving Our Ravaged Planet ... and Ourselves
nationofchange.org - By Jim Hightower - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - Earth Day cometh — the 43rd year of this national focus on the state of our globe. So, how is Earth doing? Should we be weeping ... or...
View ArticleGOP Goes Hunting For EPA Emails About Turducken
Mother Jones - By Tim McDonnell - Apr. 19 (Opinion) - Earlier this month, when a burst pipe spilled thousands of gallons of heavy oil into an Arkansas suburb, the message from the White House went...
View ArticleThe Most Controversial Chart in History, Explained
Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - May. 09 (Opinion) - Back in 1998, a little known climate scientist named Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper that sought to reconstruct the planet's past...
View Article12 Animals We Wish We Could De-Extinct
Mother Jones - By — By Maggie Severns, the Mother Jones news team - May. 15 (Comment) - Do you miss the mammoth? Dream of dodos? Long for Lycaena dispar dispar ? After centuries of driving species...
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