Environment

China’s CO2 Emissions Higher Than They Seemed

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 13, 2012 A paper published this week in Nature Climate Change shows China’s carbon emissions could be 20 percent higher than previous estimates, a disparity that would cast doubts on current predictions of the pace of climate change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Scientists Paint a Grim Picture of Earth’s Condition

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 8, 2012 A group of scientists is warning that the Earth -- beset by environmental destruction, climate change and unbridled population growth -- is heading for a tipping point that, once passed, will unleash a catastrophic breakdown in the planet’s biosphere that will bode ill for all creatures -- including man -- that call it home. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Planet Wreckers

By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch Jun 5, 2012 "Murderers, tyrants and madmen." It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Time to Remake the Climate

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2012 Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and with the intellectual property behind most of the solutions sitting in the public domain, any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it.Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

28 Companies Spend Big Bucks to Block Climate Action

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2012 Major American companies that have greenwashed their corporate image are quietly funding efforts to hinder climate legislation and discredit science, according to a new report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bluefin Tuna Carry Radiation Across the Pacific

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2012 Small amounts of radioactive cesium were detected in samples of bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California last summer, just five months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan, a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Massive Wildfire Rages in New Mexico

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2012 Lightning strikes sparked two wildfires in southwestern New Mexico that have merged and spread over 130 square miles, destroying more than a dozen structures. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Russia and Exxon Mobil Sign Arctic Oil Deal

Staff / Truthdig May 25, 2012 In a bid to remain the world’s top oil producer, Russia is partnering with Exxon Mobil and a number of other foreign oil companies to develop plans to get at reserves deep beneath the Arctic crust as early as 2020. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How Rural America Got Fracked

By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch May 21, 2012 Big multinational corporations are making a bucolic region of Wisconsin part of a vast assembly line in the race for the last fossil fuels on the planet, carting off its prehistoric sand to later be forcefully injected into the earth across the country to produce natural gas. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Vermont Outlaws Fracking

Staff / Truthdig May 18, 2012 Vermont became the first state to ban the controversial gas-drilling technique that pumps huge volumes of toxic fluid deep into the ground and that has been shown to contaminate drinking water supplies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Big Trouble in Little North Dakota

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2012 With 18 million Americans unemployed, thousands from across the country are flocking to North Dakota amid an oil boom there. The state now produces more oil than many members of OPEC and could soon make America the world’s top oil producer. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Energy Wars Heat Up

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch May 10, 2012 Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. But we are now seeing a whole cluster of oil-related clashes stretching across the globe, involving a dozen or so countries, with more popping up all the time. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )