We Are Writing the Epilogue to the World We Knew |John Atcheson

Aug. 31, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- The data continue to roll in, and they are telling us we are in the process of bringing an end to the world we evolved in, and creating a new, harsher world. We will ...

Life Is Sacred | Chris Hedges

A village boy leads his goat past a parched pond on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar. AP/Biswaranjan Rout. Sep. 3, 2012 (Truthdig) -- I retreat in the summer to the mountains a ...

Corporate Ecocide: It’s Much More Than Monsanto | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses." --Utah Phillips The other night, I started watc ...

Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast | Charles Q. Choi

Not clear whether human-caused global warming is to blame, experts say. The last house on Holland Island, Maryland, where 360 people lived before tides took over (file picture). Photograph by Astrid ...

Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP

The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of car ...

Occupy For Sharks And Oceans And All Those Who Defend Them | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 4, 2012 "I don't know of any governments or institutions that are doing anything to solve any of these problems. All over the world, though, ...

Fukushima Radiation Found in Tuna Off California | Common Dreams

May 29, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- Detectable amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California about four months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in ...

Seascape With Methane Plumes | John Michael Greer

Methane plume from the sea floor Oct. 25, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- In the wake of last week’s post, I’d meant to plunge straight into the next part of this sequence of posts and talk about the unra ...

Cold War in Warm Waters: US-China's Dangerous Contest for Asia-Pacific | Ramzy Baroud

South China Sea. Source: Demis Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 22, 2012 -- On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s p ...

Oo-rah: War and the Free Will of Pool Balls (Fred Reed)

Fred Reed Nov. 2, 2011 (Fred On Everything) -- I read frequently among the lesserly neuronal of the supposed honor of soldiers, of the military virtues of courage, loyalty, and uprightness -- that in ...

Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee (Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada and Stuart Biggs)

Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangl ...