It appears that models used to calculate future species extinction rates have not included pertinent data which, when factored in alters results by two orders of magnitude."Extinction risks for natural populations of...
A very interesting editorial analysis from Harvard Magazine on the causes and consequences of the already wide and rapidly growing gap between the rich and the poor in the USA. " When Majid Ezzati thinks about...
Mohammed Omer, at 24 the youngest recipient ever of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism was seized upon his return to Israel after accepting the 2008 prize and subsequently tortured by agents of the Israeli...
Though the Israeli and US Governments continue to pat each other on the back and pay lip service to a "peace" process in Palestine the massive increase of Israeli settlement building on stolen Palestinian land shines...
A conference in September of this year is planned to lay the groundwork to bring criminal charges against Bush Administration officials for war crimes."On September 13-14, 2008, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the...
As the failed Bush Administration continues to ramp up anti-Iranian rhetoric preparing the US public for a disastrous and illegal military assault on that nation, in what will most certainly be an ineffectual effort...
As we continue to focus myopically on the chimera of climate change, a far more sinister ecological monster is rearing its ugly head and demanding our immediate attention. The global oceans have been our toilet...
Speculation about whether George W. Bush and Dick Cheney actually lied to bring about public and Congressional support for the fateful invasion of Iraq has swirled around Washington and the blogosphere since shortly...
Tre Arrow, almost a legend to many environmentalists, took a "deal that was too good to be true" in an Oregon courtroom Tuesday, and after formal sentencing in August will spend two years in a US prison."Tre Arrow,...
At this time on our planet with the North American economies circling the big white bowl in an ever tightening gavotte, US houses being foreclosed by the hundreds of thousands, our jobs outsourced to China, the US...
The Harper Conservative's alienation of the two most prosperous and populous eastern Canadian provinces Ontario and Quebec, is at the root of recent agreements to move forward in several areas without Ottawa,...
It looks like Barack Obama is going to leave Hillary in the dust after next Tuesday's primaries and put her where she belongs. Behind him."Barack Obama is preparing to claim victory in the Democratic presidential...
A growing green grassroots initiative is afoot, or, well, underfoot so to speak, and is cropping up globally in cities such as London, Toronto, and Los Angeles. Guerrilla Gardeners from very young to very old...
How the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, Washington and the North American Free Trade Agreement created the Mexican and global food crisis. "When tens of thousands of people staged...
OPINION: Though climate models predicted major ocean acidification would not hit the west coast of North American until the end of the century, new joint research between the USA and Canada indicates this devastating...