Check out Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s op-ed in Time Magazine, “The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race.”KAJ argues that, if the Ferguson atrocity isn’t to fade into another historical footnote, it’s…
The eastern Pacific, from the Bering Sea to northern California, has been one of the world’s last remaining great fisheries. It’s a band of coastal ocean famous for its abundant…
There’s a terrific documentary, Mission Blue, that’s now available on Netflix. It’s the life story of pioneering oceanographer and marine biologist, Sylvia Earle. From the time she took her science…
Well, it turns out every cloud does have a silver lining. A major impact of climate change has been the rapid loss of Arctic sea ice. The absence of sea…
Laurie Garrett claims “you are not nearly scared enough about ebola.” Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, warns that if the ebola epidemic…
Tony Abbott is a man going to war. His chosen target is Australia’s environment and, according to Foreign Policy, he means to do it in. Located at the bottom of…
You would think if you were a country particularly prone to being mugged by severe storm events of increasing intensity, frequency and destructiveness you might be just as particularly receptive…
Relax, it’s not a holiday. It’s not something to celebrate. It is however a day of observance. For 2014, August 19th represents the day on which mankind has consumed a…
In 49 B.C., then general Julius Caesar staked his life on a huge gamble and led his legions across the Rubicon into Rome. Caesar knew that any general bringing his…
In a system that reduces life to a chain of disconnected reactions to shock, personal communication tends to lose all meaning… The individual under terrorist conditions is never alone and…
What does America’s War on Drugs have to do with the execution/killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the riots it spawned? The New Republic‘s John McWhorter believes they’re…
This curious graphic depicts areas that are expected to be severely water stressed through the balance of this century. Note that hard-hit countries include China, India, Brazil, western Russia, the…
We’ve always lived with spring flooding caused by rapid melting of winter snowpack. People along the Red River know full well how that works. Today, however, flooding isn’t just a…
Reservoir, What Reservoir? So, you see, you’ve got this conjunction of forces. There are more of us by the day, about 220,000 every 24-hours and that’s a net increase. And…
This keeps getting worse. An autopsy on the corpse of Michael Brown concludes the unarmed, young black man sustained six gunshots including two to his head. Renowned (“celebrity”) medical examiner,…
For good and obvious reasons, destruction of essential civilian infrastructure such as water supply and sewage systems is prohibited by the laws of war. Attacking such targets is a war…
I remember when a hard rain meant you might see standing water in farm fields. That was a different time even if it was just a couple of decades ago.…
I want to share an amazing recipe with you all. It’s from America’s Test Kitchen and it’s for “summer tomato pie.“ The key to this recipe is the tomatoes. You…
Texas governor Rick Perry’s presidential aspirations could be over. The New York Times reports a Texas grand jury has indicted Perry on two felony counts of abuse of power. At…
Every morning Google Alerts delivers to my inbox a digest of the day’s stories about flooding. For several years I’ve begun my morning sorting through these and other alerts to…
