The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Apr 3, 2018 The Trump administration should veto the chemical giants' pending merger to protect not just competitors but human and environmental health. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

King Penguins Face a Shrinking Realm

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Mar 5, 2018 When an ecosystem changes, those creatures most precisely adapted become the most vulnerable—and that is bad news for king penguins. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Ordinary People Can Help Ailing Oceans

By John Hawthorne / MoBox Marine Dec 20, 2017 The more acidic our oceans become, the harder it is for sea life to survive. As sea life dies off, entire ecosystems will begin to collapse, resulting in other ecosystems collapsing. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Global Warming Threatens the World’s Mountains

By Alex Kirby / Climate News Network Feb 8, 2017 Climate change is fundamentally altering mountains across the world, making ecosystems more vulnerable as tree lines migrate up slopes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

New Map Reveals How Roads Devastate Nature

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jan 18, 2017 Scientists call for urgent protection of ecologically valuable roadless areas. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Rio Fails to Deliver on ‘Green Olympics’ Pledges

By Jan Rocha / Climate News Network Aug 24, 2016 The promise to improve favela conditions, for example, was simply abandoned. Instead, many communities were forcibly removed to make way for Olympic projects. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

2015 in Review: Amid the Gloom Covering Our Planet, Some Rays of Light

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 22, 2015 On the winter solstice, a Truthdig review of the year's environmental stories finds cause for hope in our poison-riddled world. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Eulogy for a Friend

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Aug 24, 2015 The Rev Terry Burke stood with the suffering, ministering to them over three decades and going to jail for his protests on behalf of fired workers and against the corporations that are destroying the ecosystem Terry Burke (above) stood with the suffering, ministering to them over three decades and going to jail for his protests on behalf of fired workers and against the corporations that are destroying the ecosystem. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

California Gov. Jerry Brown at Vatican’s Climate Summit: ‘God Is Not Mocked’

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Jul 22, 2015 California's water-challenged residents know what it's like to deal with ecological trouble in their own backyards, so it was only fitting that the Golden State's Gov. Jerry Brown did a little preaching Tuesday at the Vatican's climate-focused meeting of mayors from around the world. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Big Oil Soon to Be Extinct

Pamela Alma Weymouth / Truthdig Jun 6, 2015 Fossil fuels are on their way out as a new generation embraces renewable energy and such ideas as ride-sharing, biking and a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Choosing Life

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Apr 20, 2015 As long as we exploit animals and kill them for food, we will exploit and kill each other. The willful numbness of our life as carnivores feeds our lack of empathy for the poor, our lust for war and ecocide. Dig deeper ( 9 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 )