New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation has chosen Robert Jacobi, a University at Buffalo geologist with ties to the natural gas industry, to study the link between fracking and earthquakes,…
By David Suzuki The Arctic may seem like a distant place, just as the most extreme consequences of our wasteful use of fossil fuels may appear to be in some…
This is a guest post by James Lawrence Powell, originally published on GoFossilFree.org A generation ago, students urged colleges to sell their stock in companies doing business in Apartheid South…
by JODI STARK, one of the independent artists who created Hope the Whale, and an environmental public engagement specialist. The most striking part of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway community hearings in…
by Nikki Skuce, Senior Energy Campaigner, ForestEthics Advocacy Every time I read the comments section related to a story on First Nations activism, I am saddened by the depth and…
This is a guest post by Michael Harris, originally published on iPolitics.ca Keep the Indians off the front-page. That, in a phrase, is the Harper approach to aboriginal issues in…
Originally published at Climate Progress. Re-printed with permission. by Kiley Kroh and Michael Conathan This week’s grounding of Shell’s enormous Kulluk drilling rig near Kodiak Island, Alaska has not inspired…
By Ellen Cantarow – Originally published at EcoWatch.org Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its singularity—its vastness, its difference from other…
By David Suzuki In 1988, hundreds of scientists and policy-makers met in Toronto for a major international conference on climate change. They were sufficiently alarmed by the accumulated evidence for…
This a guest post by Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, of the University of Western Australia. THE guy next to you in the pub turns around and says, “Popcorn doesn’t exist”… and…
Written by David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Communications Manager Ian Hanington. Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to…
This is a guest post by Connor Gibson, originally published at Polluterwatch. At a well-attended energy forum hosted by Politico on Thursday, I shed some light on the role of…
This is a guest post by James Lawrence Powell.* Polls show that many members of the public believe that scientists substantially disagree about human-caused global warming. The gold standard of…
This is a guest post by Janet MacGillivray, Tar Sands Blockade Legal Coordinator And Strategic Liaison Less than one week before the U.S. election, Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill…
By David Suzuki Why, when so many people oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, would government and industry resort to such extreme measures to push it through? The problems…
This is a guest post by Connor Gibson, originally published at Greenpeace Blogs. The octopus has a remarkable ability–it can blend seamlessly with its surroundings, changing its appearance to mimic…
This is a guest post by Janet MacGillivray, Legal Coordinator and Campaign Strategic Advisor with Tar Sands Blockade. Today, former TransCanada engineer Evan Vokes blew the whistle on his company’s…
This is a guest post by Nikki Skuce, and originally appeared in the Edmonton Journal. In Edmonton this week, experts and lawyers have gathered again at the Joint Review Panel…
This is a guest post by Prof. Scott Mandia, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences and Assistant Chair of the Physical Sciences Department at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island,…
Cross-posted from Media Matters with permission, view original here. A Media Matters analysis reveals that The Wall Street Journal‘s editorials on acid rain mirrored misleading talking points featured in coal…
