Henry David Thoreau: A Life

By Michael Sims Aug 11, 2017 This new biography is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Scientists Calculate That Humans Cause at Least Half the Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Mar 17, 2017 New research analyzes the decline of the region's ecology by weighing natural variability and human factors. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Warming Wreaks Havoc on Ecosystems

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Nov 14, 2016 As climate change negotiations continue in Marrakech, scientists warn that global warming is affecting four-fifths of ecological processes vital to ecosystems. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How to Stop Capitalism’s Deadly War With Nature

Paul Street / Truthdig Sep 14, 2016 It's not humanity alone that threatens life on earth. The bigger culprit is an economic and political system that relies on endless global appropriation of cheap food, energy, raw materials and labor. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Humanity Is Playing High-Risk Ecological Roulette

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jul 20, 2016 Analysis of millions of records by thousands of scientists across the world shows that human impacts have helped push the planet’s vital biodiversity into the danger zone. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Scientists Calculate Our Debt to Earth

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Feb 24, 2016 Researchers in the U.S. have found a way to put a monetary value on the multitude of vital services and assets we rely on nature to provide us cost-free. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

To Drill or Not to Drill — That Is the Question

By Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch Mar 4, 2015 Major oil company Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer. In the long term, that could spell doom for one of the last great relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

New Hope for the Climate Crusade

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 4, 2015 A promising new legal framework that recognizes Earth's ecologies as a public trust could compel local and state legislators to take action to protect the planet by convincing courts that environmental protection is the responsibility of the government. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Current Trends Follow Book Predicting Global Collapse

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 4, 2014 Research from the University of Melbourne found forecasts made in the 1972 book "Limits to Growth" regarding resource use, population growth, industrial output and other factors of the world's economy and ecosystems to be accurate. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Original Geo-Engineers: How to Save the Iconic West from the Cow

By Chip Ward, TomDispatch Jul 31, 2014 The great novelist Wallace Stegner sorted the conflicting impulses in his beloved American West into two camps: the “boomers” and the “nesters.” The modern version of the nesters are conservationists who try to partner with the ecosystems where they live. They understand that you cannot steer and control nature, but you might be able to dance with it. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Half of Plants May Move In Warmer World

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Feb 17, 2014 One probable consequence of climate change will be a change in patterns of vegetation over much of the planet’s land surface. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Cat Litter Killer in Whales of the North

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Feb 15, 2014 The warming of the Arctic is thought by scientists to be responsible for the emergence there of two parasites that seek out marine mammals. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )