Toughen Up: Freedom of Speech Is Absolute, There Are No Thought Crimes
WARNING: This essay contains materials that will offend just about anyone in one way or another. Yet free thought and speech – even when challenging,...
This US Memorial Day: One Human Family on the Precipice
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1755
“We may be...
The Death of Gaia
Gaia
It is known scientifically that the Earth System, or Gaia if you will, is organized and functions similarly to other scales of biology, including...
On Ecology and Climate, Sad to Say, Scientists Told You So
Choose your fate, embrace an ecology ethic, or die
Given long-predicted and self-evident abrupt climate change and ecosystem collapse, and resultant perma-war and rise of...
No publication bias found in climate change research
Rarely do we encounter a scientific fact that stirs public controversy and distrust in science as much as climate change. However, the theory is...
Sea-level change in Southeast Asia 6,000 years ago has implications for today
Sea level in Southeast Asia fluctuated wildly -- and naturally -- more than 6,000 years ago, twice rising nearly two feet in a period...
Deep groundwater aquifers respond rapidly to climate variability
Changes in climate can rapidly impact even the deepest freshwater aquifers according to hydrologists. The researchers found that responses to climate variations can be...
Find Meaning in Nature and #TheResistance to Trump Fascism
There is no left or right, only tyranny or freedom, nature or ecocide. Ascendant authoritarian fascists seeking to oppress others and obstruct responses to...
Don't hunker in the bunker; learn how to do stuff that's useful
TreeHugger has covered the repurposing and reusing of old missile bases and bunkers, and recently discussed the New Yorker article on the subject of...
Limited sign of soil adaptation to climate warming
While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, Earth’s soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere...
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GOP owns Trump attack on the Earth.
Republicans are killing the planet. We say that because President Donald Trump was their nominee and they own him – golden locks, who knows...
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Measuring the cost of climate change.
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As climate change regulations are on the chopping...
US Energy Department tells staff to stop using the phrases climate change and Paris...
Staff at the US Energy Department were reportedly told to stop using the phrases “climate change”, “emissions reduction” and “Paris Agreement” in all briefings...
EPA seeks to scuttle cleanup of coal power plant pollution.
The Trump administration is once again seeking to scuttle cuts to pollution from coal-fired power plants.The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday asked a federal...