Environmentalism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the highest percentage in the nation (though Texas generates more than twice as many megawatts from wind). But you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Some Iowa planners think that in only 14 years Iowa will be able to […]

Acidification of Oceans

In Rejecting Carbon Tax HR Clinton is playing Russian Roulette with our Future

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Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | – – The Clinton presidential campaign has indicated that it will not support a carbon tax. But we simply cannot meet greenhouse gas reduction goals without a price on carbon. How can we take Secretary Clinton’s commitment to climate action seriously if she rejects carbon pricing outright? Clinton’s negligence […]

Climate Change

Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence

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By Simon Albert, Alistair Grinham, Badin Gibbes, Javier Leon, & John Church | (The Conversation) | – – Sea-level rise, erosion and coastal flooding are some of the greatest challenges facing humanity from climate change. Recently at least five reef islands in the remote Solomon Islands have been lost completely to sea-level rise and coastal […]

Desertification

Can Leonardo DiCaprio save Iran’s incredible shrinking Lake Urmia?

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By Tori Egherman | ( Globalvoices.org ) | – – In one “regram,” American actor Leonardo DiCaprio has brought a flood of attention to Iran's drying Lake Urmia. Lake Urmia (sometimes spelled Orumyeh or Urmieh) has been an issue for Iranian environmentalists and water engineers for years. The lake was once the largest salt water […]

Energy

Could Chile be the Saudi Arabia of Wave Power?

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By Orlando Milesi and Marianela Jarroud | (Inter Press Service) | – – SANTIAGO, May 4 2016 (IPS) – Chile, a country with 6,435 km of Pacific Ocean coast line, could find in wave and tidal power a solution to its need to diversify its energy mix. According to a study commissioned by the Inter-American […]

Climate Change

Will Climate Change make the Mideast Uninhabitable & trigger mass exodus?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute and their scientific partners have found that even with just a 3.6 degree average rise in global temperatures, parts of the Middle East could become too hot to live in. Warming won’t be even around the world. Some places will […]

Climate Change

Earth Day 2016: The Onslaughts of Mal-Development

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By H Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – In June 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire from floating oil and combustible debris as it wound through Cleveland. While not the first river fire, it was the last for this and other industrial rivers. Federal laws enacted in the early 1970s, in particular the […]

Climate Change

After largest Methane Leak in US History, will California Ban Fracking, go for Solar & Wind?

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The Tree | – – A natural gas well that leaked over four months in California is finally under control, paving the way for the “road to recovery” and justice. The Aliso Canyon gas facility in Porter Ranch, California, just 30 miles from Los Angeles, leaked 96,000 tons of methane into the environment, forcing thousands […]

Acidification of Oceans

Great Barrier Reef Endangered: Ocean turning Acidic from our Our Coal, Oil, Gas emissions

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By Mathieu Mongin, Andrew Lenton, Jennifer Skerratt & Mark Baird | (The Conversation) | – – Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have travelled to spectacular coral reefs marvel at their colour and biodiversity. At around 2,000 km long, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. […]