Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come | Justin Gillis

Greenland's immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. CreditKadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times March 30, 2014 -- YOKOHAMA, Japan (New York Times) -- Climate change is alread ...

Climate-Change Summary And Update | Guy McPherson

Guy McPhersonEditor's Note: Here are a few links discussing Guy McPherson's ideas about the climate. John Michael Greer dismisses him as a crank. Judge for yourself. --Francis Goodwin http://worldnew ...

Great Feelings of Love (for ALL earthlings) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 11, 2013 “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” - Che Guevara On ...

'Inhospitable Oceans' Acidifying at Rate Unseen in 250 Million Years (or Ever) | Jon Queally

New study shows oceans in peril as acidification is happening at rate perhaps never seen in planet's history (Photo: 'Rough Ocean'/Flickr/Jacqueline Fasser) Aug. 26, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- In both a ...

International Alarms Go Up as Fukushima Alert Level Raised | Jon Queally

Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant Water woes: Workers stand atop a tank for highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nucl ...

Preserving the Future is Not a 'Lifestyle' | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 12, 2013 “(Being vegan) is part of a revolutionary perspective -- how we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings bu ...

A Peculiar Absence of Bellybones | John Michael Greer

July 3, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- The fixation on imaginary “perfect storms” critiqued in last week’s post is only one expression of a habit of thinking that pervades contemporary American culture a ...

Waters Off Northeast US Coast Unusually Warm, Says NOAA | Eoin O'Carroll

Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A lobsterma ...

Predator Scorecard: Sharks: 7, Humans: 50-100 Million | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 28, 2013 “Our human blind spot is how we treat animals, and by extension, our only home: planet earth.” - Sue Coe It’s the type of story the ...

Scientists Confirm: Arctic Sea Ice 'Collapse' at Our Door | Jacob Chamberlain

Warming planet and new evidence portend future of ice-free Arctic Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- The Arctic Sea is experiencing rapi ...

From Sea To Overfished Sea… | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 3, 2012 "The oceans of the earth are dying. This fact alone should send us reeling into the streets in displays of public grief." - Phil Roc ...