Environment

The Real Reason Behind the Oil Price Collapse

The Real Reason Behind the Oil Price Collapse The Real Reason Behind the Oil Price Collapse

It’s not overproduction in shale fields, and it’s not global economic stagnation. It’s something far more threatening to Big Oil’s business model.

Mar 12, 2015 / Michael T. Klare

Conservatives Have a Plan for Climate Change: Pretend It Doesn’t Exist

Conservatives Have a Plan for Climate Change: Pretend It Doesn’t Exist Conservatives Have a Plan for Climate Change: Pretend It Doesn’t Exist

Florida officials have reportedly been banned from using the terms "climate change" and "global warming."

Mar 9, 2015 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter

Royal Dutch Shell Wants to Look for Oil in the Most Dangerous Drilling Environment in the World

Royal Dutch Shell Wants to Look for Oil in the Most Dangerous Drilling Environment in the World Royal Dutch Shell Wants to Look for Oil in the Most Dangerous Drilling Environment in the World

An ice-choked ocean, tens of thousands of whales, no proven technology in case of emergency and a mission for oil: what could possibly go wrong?

Mar 3, 2015 / Subhankar Banerjee

Gaza’s Natural Gas Deposits Could Easily Spark a Full-Fledged Resource War

Gaza’s Natural Gas Deposits Could Easily Spark a Full-Fledged Resource War Gaza’s Natural Gas Deposits Could Easily Spark a Full-Fledged Resource War

The first quarter-century of crisis over eastern Mediterranean natural gas has been nothing but prelude.

Feb 26, 2015 / Michael Schwartz

The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.

Feb 25, 2015 / Feature / George Black

This Year’s Climate Talks Are Our Last (and Best) Chance to Slow Global Warming

This Year’s Climate Talks Are Our Last (and Best) Chance to Slow Global Warming This Year’s Climate Talks Are Our Last (and Best) Chance to Slow Global Warming

An interview with Jeffrey Sachs on the 2015 Paris negotiations, sustainable development and the profound threat facing our planet.

Feb 24, 2015 / David Kortava

Did the GOP Just Give Away $130 Billion of Public Property?

Did the GOP Just Give Away $130 Billion of Public Property? Did the GOP Just Give Away $130 Billion of Public Property?

A giant Anglo-Australian mining company is getting the rights to a huge copper reserve—and we don’t know what American taxpayers are getting in return.

Feb 13, 2015 / Rep. Alan Grayson

Why Harvard Students Are Sitting-In Outside Drew Faust’s Office

Why Harvard Students Are Sitting-In Outside Drew Faust’s Office Why Harvard Students Are Sitting-In Outside Drew Faust’s Office

Refusing to divest now is an irresponsible and unsustainable abrogation of Harvard’s power.

Feb 12, 2015 / StudentNation / Divest Harvard

The Most Effective Foreign Policy Tool in the GOP’s Pocket Is an American Pipeline

The Most Effective Foreign Policy Tool in the GOP’s Pocket Is an American Pipeline The Most Effective Foreign Policy Tool in the GOP’s Pocket Is an American Pipeline

Keystone XL is part of a new colonial project—and Canada and Mexico are the frontiers.

Feb 12, 2015 / Michael T. Klare

Scientists: We Cannot Geoengineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

Scientists: We Cannot Geoengineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis Scientists: We Cannot Geoengineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

The scariest conclusion of a new comprehensive study is that scientists have no clue what geoengineering would really do to the planet.

Feb 10, 2015 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter

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