Amy Goodman / TruthdigSep 26, 2013
Last week, far out in the Arctic Ocean, the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise approached a Russian oil-drilling platform and launched a nonviolent protest, with several protesters scaling the side of the platform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Kieran Cooke, Climate News NetworkAug 3, 2013
By burning gas released from its rapidly-growing oil industry, North Dakota is adding to greenhouse gas emissions and wasting about a billion dollars annually, a report says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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By Paul Brown, Climate News NetworkJun 12, 2013
A vast, globally important river basin in Canada five times the size of France is at great risk from a potential catastrophic oil spill from the mining of tar sands. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchMay 23, 2013
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group, and one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment. But we don’t have one for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on. “Terracide,” from the Latin word for earth, has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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