Video: Arctic Emergency: Scientists Speak
This film, by DGR member Max Wilbert, brings you the voices of climate scientists – in their own words. Rising temperatures in the Arctic are contributing the melting sea ice, thawing permafrost, and...
View ArticleReport finds “carbon sinks” insufficient in absorbing CO2 emissions
By Tom Bawden / The Independent Carbon dioxide is being accumulated in the atmosphere at the fastest rate since records began, as scientists warn that the oceans and forests may have absorbed so much...
View ArticleIt’s Not Them, It’s Us: Unadaptable to Climate Change
By Lxs inadaptadxs al cambio climático 22 years ago on this very continent was brought to the negotiating table the crisis of climate change. Many evasive proposals, claims to turn the crisis into an...
View ArticleIndustrial civilization forcing 41% of amphibians, 26% of mammals to extinction
By Robin McKie / The Observer A stark depiction of the threat hanging over the world’s mammals, reptiles, amphibians and other life forms has been published by the prestigious scientific journal,...
View ArticleBook Review: This Changes Everything
By Kim Hill / Deep Green Resistance Australia Naomi Klein’s latest book, This Changes Everything, is based on the premise that capitalism is the cause of the climate crisis, and to avert catastrophe,...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Reclaim Environmentalism
By Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen Once, the environmental movement was about protecting the natural world from the insatiable demands of this extractive culture. Some of the movement still is: around...
View ArticleThomas Linzey: The Coal Trains’ Track to Nowhere
By Thomas Linzey / CELDF Four years ago, as we were leaving Spokane to help rural Pennsylvania communities stop frack injection wells and gas pipelines, this region’s environmental groups couldn’t stop...
View ArticleWashington Post: Number of trees has fallen by 46 Percent since advent of...
By Chris Mooney / The Washington Post In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in Nature, a team of 38 scientists finds that the planet is home to 3.04 trillion trees, blowing away the previously...
View ArticleFrom 50 Countries Worldwide, Women Rise Up For Global Women’s Climate Justice...
SAN FRANCISCO– On Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 women from fifty countries around the world took action for climate justice, gender equality, bold climate policies and transformative solutions as part...
View ArticleBrazil authorizes operation of Belo Monte Dam
By Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense via Intercontinental Cry Image: Mural in São Paulo, Brazil (Photo: Monica Kaneko/flickr). Some Rights Reserved Altamira, Brazil. The Brazilian...
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