Titanic Tribute Cruise

By Paul Zanetti, Australia Apr 11, 2012 Dig deeper

We Screwed Up: A Letter of Apology to My Granddaughter

By Chip Ward, TomDispatch Mar 28, 2012 There were plenty of signs we took a wrong turn but we kept on going. Dumb, stubborn, blind: Who knows why we couldn’t stop? Greed maybe -- powerful corporations we couldn’t overcome. It won’t matter much to you who is to blame. You’ll be too busy coping in the diminished world we bequeath you. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Flower Snow

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Mar 21, 2012 Dig deeper

Dirty Air Set to Become Biggest Environmental Killer

Staff / Truthdig Mar 16, 2012 A new report predicts urban air pollution will become the No. 1 cause of premature death in the coming decades, beating out poor sanitation and dirty drinking water to take more than 3.5 million lives per year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Tough-Oil World

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Mar 14, 2012 The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but they are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, “tough oil” variety that will be more costly to extract, refine and buy at the pump. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Easy Winter

Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News Mar 4, 2012 Dig deeper

Get Well

Jeremy Nell, Cagle Cartoons, The New Age, South Africa Feb 29, 2012 Dig deeper

Gore: End Quarterly Reporting, Save the World

Staff / Truthdig Feb 16, 2012 Al Gore has yet another good idea that’s likely to be ignored by the business and political community: In the interest of economic and environmental sustainability, companies should be encouraged to focus on long-term rather than short-term investment goals by dropping the requirement to post quarterly earnings. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Great Carbon Bubble

By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch Feb 8, 2012 If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark.At the moment, one of the world's most prominent features is a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government

By Christian Parenti, TomDispatch Jan 28, 2012 Don’t expect the present anti-government “consensus” to last. Global warming and the freaky, increasingly extreme weather that will accompany it is going to change all that. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Zuccotti Park Reoccupied

Staff / Truthdig Jan 11, 2012 Barricades in Zuccotti Park have finally come down, causing protesters to immediately reoccupy; in the face of budget cuts, some teachers opt to work for free; meanwhile, Kopimism, a new religion based on file-sharing, emerges. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Global Politics

Paresh Nath, The Khaleej Times, UAE Jan 9, 2012 Dig deeper