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 ...

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 ...

The Parting Of The Ways | John Michael Greer

its-just-nathan.tumblr.comJune 13, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Chalk it up to an adolescence spent reading such cheerful books as The Limits to Growth and The Coming Dark Age, but it takes quite a bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pillow for Flood Relief (Deborah Goodwin)

Oct. 14, 2011 -- STOCKBRIDGE, Vt. (ShapeShiftas) -- ShapeShiftas is pleased to announce the availablility of a very special, limited-edition Eye of the Hurricane Irene pillow. This handcrafted piece ...

Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security (Stephen Leahy)

This data visualisation from the Aqua satellite show the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09. Credit:NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio Sept. 15, 2011 (Inter Press Service) -- All the anal ...

Nature Bats Last: Notes on Revolution and Resistance, Revelation and Redemption (Robert Jensen)

(An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.) Aug. 8, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- My title is ambitious and ambiguous: revolut ...

New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises (Bill McKibben)

Obama finally has the opportunity to make good on his environmental promises, but will he? Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found m ...

Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)

Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and ...

Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison? (Al Gore)

WCW's Bill Goldberg, a former NFL linebacker, puts the hurt on an opponent. June 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The first time I remember hearing the question "is it real?" was when I went as a young bo ...