With summer comes, many of us seek solutions to combat the nuisance and potential health risks of mosquitoes.
Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies by Erica Cirino
The air is plasticized, and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors. Minuscule plastic fibers, fragments, foam, and films are shed from plastic stuff and are perpetually floating into and free-falling down on us from the atmosphere. Rain flushes micro- and nanoplastics out of the sky back to Earth. Plastic-filled snow is […]
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Africa
The framework of our civilization is premised on the destruction of the planet.
Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
By Daniel Ross For all the well-documented sources of environmental pollution—think chemical manufacturers, energy plants, mining operations, and agricultural processes—there’s another major source of contamination that continues to get short shrift by those charged with protecting the nation’s waterways and the public’s health: Pharmaceuticals and personal care products.“Across the board, we don’t have our heads […]
Food not Bombs’ Nick Cooper. Ingrid Bond on mayoral debate. Rich countries must fix environment.
Food Not Bombs’ Nick Cooper visits to discuss the organization and the attack by the city. Ingrid Bond talks about tonight’s Houston Mayoral debate. Why rich countries must fix the environment.
Humanity’s Secret War Against the Environment, Ourselves, and Our Children
Inequitable family planning and illogical pro-growth policies are taking away every child’s right to a fair start in life.
A Realistic ‘Energy Transition’ Is to Get Better at Using Less of It
Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition.
We’ve Never Been Closer to Nuclear Catastrophe—Who Gains by Ignoring It?
Antiwar and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart.
Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
An interview with the creator of the short film “Ode to Joy,” which celebrates connection with nature as a portal to deeper connection with self and each other.
An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
New evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping away the popular assumption that early societies tended toward autocracy and despotism.