Environment

News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Aug 11, 2010 Our daily weather reports, cheerfully presented with flashy graphics and state-of-the-art animation, appear to relay more and more information. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Lessons From the Oil Spill

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Aug 10, 2010 Flying back to Washington from Pensacola, Fla., on June 15, President Obama and the man he put in charge of handling the Gulf oil spill, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, had a come-to-Jesus talk. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

We All Live on Turtle Island

Deanne Stillman / Truthdig Jul 23, 2010 When speaking of the natural world, for good reason we often turn to Native American myth. Turtle carries the world on its back is what many of these myths tell us; we are all citizens on turtle island. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Calling All Future-Eaters

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 19, 2010 We sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species. Homo sapiens, as the biologist Tim Flannery points out, are the “future-eaters.”We sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Pollution and Occupation

Staff / Truthdig Jul 17, 2010 We all know the violent side of occupation, but what about the environmental? It may sound ridiculous, but Israeli settlements are dumping untreated waste into a canal that runs into the West Bank while the Israeli government is banning attempts by Palestinians to divert or treat that waste. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Heat Wave Silences Climate Skeptics

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jul 9, 2010 It’s odd how little we’ve heard lately from the skeptics who deny that climate change is real. What’s the matter, people? Heat stroke? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jul 7, 2010 "Deep Spill 2" sounds like a sequel to a Hollywood thriller. Unfortunately, it is more of a reality show. "Deep Spill 2" is the name of an ambitious series of proposed scientific experiments that should be happening right now. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Save the Trees, Save the Planet

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jun 24, 2010 What would the wealthy nations of the West (and their rising rivals in the East) do if they actually wanted to prevent catastrophic warming? Here in Africa, the obvious answer is that they would find the ways and means to discourage deforestation. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Green ‘New Deal’ Now

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jun 17, 2010 Clearly the president understands what is at stake. And he apparently senses renewed opportunity in the wake of the Gulf catastrophe, which illustrates the problems of oil dependency with harrowing urgency. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Rape and Spillage

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jun 16, 2010 What's with the president's war analogy on the oil spill? It's as if some alien force, "The Invasion of the Slippery Sludge," suddenly attacked us What nonsense . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Flash Floods Kill At Least 16 in Arkansas

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2010 At least 16 people were reported killed by flash floods in western Arkansas on Friday after buildup from heavy rainfall caused flood waters to sweep through campgrounds (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Putting the ‘I’ in Environment

David Sirota / Truthdig Jun 11, 2010 While British Petroleum and federal regulators are certainly at fault for their reckless behavior, every American who uses oil -- which is to say every American -- is incriminated in this ecological holocaust. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )