Learning How to Say Goodbye to Our Broken Planet
We have a finite amount of time left to coexist with large parts of the biosphere, including thousands of species of plants and animals.
The Deadly Risk From Landslides Is Rising
Waterlogged hillsides are dangerous. For those who live on them, or further downhill, they can be life-threatening.
Humans Weigh Heavily on the Earth, and Here Are the Numbers
The mass of all the people on the planet is more or less 10 times the mass of all living wild mammals.
Book Review
Our Greatest Threat Is the Hardest to Act Upon
The new book "No Immediate Danger" tussles with the comprehension-defying nature of climate change.
Articles
How Ordinary People Can Help Ailing Oceans
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.
TD originals
Is Revolution Brewing in the U.S.?
According to a new study on inequality and revolutions throughout history, America soon may experience a profound paradigm shift.
TD originals
Hell Hath No Fury Like Mother Nature Scorned
When will humans learn? Nothing is more powerful than the natural world.
Drought Has Long-Term Climate Consequences, Study Shows
More frequent droughts, predicted for the future, may not allow ecosystems enough time to recover before the next prolonged dry spell.
Book Suggests That as a Result of Our Environmental Actions, We Are Contemplating Our Own Extinction
Human mistreatment of the planet is ushering in a new geological era—one that will not be pleasant, according to public ethics professor Clive Hamilton's "Defiant Earth."
How to Stop Capitalism’s Deadly War With Nature
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.
