Category Archives: Environment

As Flood Risks Rise Across the US, It’s Time to Recognize the Limits of Levees

How levees become counterproductive as flood severity increases.

Waste Watch: Why Do We Discard So Many Edible Fish We Pull From the Sea?

New House of Lords report laments failure to slow discarding edible fish back into the sea; Australia also tosses much of its catch.

Climate Change Lawsuits Increase Globally

Climate change litigation is increasing globally from initial US origins. These legal actions will continue to grow as the crisis accelerates.

A World Without Ice

Looking at the impact of the loss of ice in nature.

PG&E Neglected Maintenance for Years Despite Known Fire Risk; Judge Demands Prompt and Clear Answers to WSJ Expose

A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.

Recycling Woes: Indonesia Sends Waste Shipment Back to Australia

Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.

‘Completely Terrifying’: Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event

Carbon levels could be approaching a threshold that could trigger ocean acidification similar to that which contributed to previous mass extinction events.

Mining and Electric Vehicles: Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt

Electric vehicle production at scale requires materials we don’t have enough of.

Reforestation as a Solution for Carbon Capture: Hype and Reality

Advocates for reforestation must consider who owns the land to be reforested, and how the reforestation is to be done.

Philadelphia Explosion One in String of ‘Near Miss’ Accidents at Refineries Using Deadly Chemical

Accounts emerging from workers and others on site paint a troubling picture of how close to disaster Philadelphia may have come.

U.N. Report: ‘Human Rights Might Not Survive’ Climate Crisis

Not surprisingly, the poor, particularly in developing countries, will be devastated by climate change.

Plastic Watch: G20 Issues Pathetic Declaration

G20 issues Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, a voluntary plastic management plan so inadequate the plastic industry endorsed it immediately.

Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages

Climate disasters in India are fueled by its resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption policies, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty.

Design Genius Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Leaving Behind Crapified Products That Cannot Be Repaired

The departure of Jony Ive gives Apple the chance to reboot its design philosophy to embrace reliability and repairability.