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More than half (27) of the nation's 50 worst power plants for mercury emissions increased their mercury emissions from 2007 to 2008 (the latest year for which data is available), according to a new report from the nonprofit and nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). The six leading U.S. power suppliers... » read this article

WASHINGTON- In an attempt to further pressure EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to enforce the Clean Water Act and halt mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR), activists early this morning erected two 20-foot-tall, purple tripod structures in front of the agency's headquarters. A pair of activists perched at the top of the... » read this article

Pledges to work to end deforestation as French company prepares to ship illegal logs from Madagascar You can still TAKE ACTION on this matter at: Rainforest Portal (Paris, France) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy last week said rich nations must do more to help fight deforestation, as he hosted a... » read this article

What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West? A Frightening Phenomenon Happening Across the Globe For many years, Diana Six, an entomologist at the University of Montana, planned her field season for the same two to three weeks in July. That's when her quarry - tiny, black, mountain pine... » read this article

Participants in a 260-mile trek from Bakersfield to Sacramento attended a rally at Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park as part of the “March for California’s Future” to highlight how budget cuts have forced the closure of state parks throughout California. Marchers reached Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park after walking almost... » read this article

Joshua Frank, co-author with Jeffrey St. Clair of Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, looks at a new report that shows that the Environmental Protection Agency is letting coal companies pollute with impunity. --------------------------- THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) has severely underreported the severity of coal... » read this article

Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. In Tanzania, where the economy is largely driven by agriculture, the largely poor, rural population has... » read this article

Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say. They warn that the oceans' complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be disrupted. In some spots off Washington... » read this article

For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world's experts on biodiversity has warned. Conservation experts have already signalled that the world is in the grip of the "sixth great extinction" of species,... » read this article

Like many other farmers in the remote village of Barchid, lying in the shadow of Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains, Makbulsho Yakinshoev knows little about issues such as greenhouse-gas emissions or global warming. But the 65-year-old Tajik farmer knows what he sees, and for years he has seen his fruit and vegetable... » read this article

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has severely underreported the severity of coal ash waste pollution and its threat to human and environmental health throughout the United States, a new independent study released February 24 by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and Earthjustice says. The EPA's tally of coal ash contamination... » read this article

Editorial comment: We are well aware of the fact that this video was already posted on Axis of Logic In September, 2009. However, since the video has been brought out again and as Craig Mackintosh stresses "the importance of battling GMOs every step of the way", we think it is... » read this article

The debate on genetically modified (GM) brinjal variety continues to generate heat. Former managing director of Monsanto India, Tiruvadi Jagadisan, is the latest to join the critics of Bt brinjal, perhaps the first industry insider to do so. Jagadisan, who worked with Monsanto for nearly two decades, including eight years... » read this article

Editor's Note: In the following article, Robert Alvarez responds to Daniel Indiviglio's praise of Obama's proposal for new nuclear energy plants in the the United States, Five Reasons to Cheer Obama's Ambition, published in The Atlantic on February 16. We have edited Alvarez' article to include all of Indiviglio's comments... » read this article

Although it seems a bit like a dog-bites-man story, the New York Times reported Rick Perry (R-TX) has joined with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to regulate carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. As the Center for Media and Democracy has documented on... » read this article

As Vermont seethes with radioactive contamination and the Democratic Party crumbles, Barack Obama has plunged into the atomic abyss. In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done what George W. Bush could not---pledge billions of taxpayer dollars for... » read this article

As record snowfall crippled the mid-Atlantic this week, many Republicans used the blizzard-like conditions to argue that global warming is a hoax. We speak to climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who argues the extreme weather is in fact a part of global warming. //... » read this article

TED.com Paul Stamets' Webpage Mycelium Running- How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World... » read this article

Despite cool temperatures over most of the Arctic Ocean in January, Arctic sea ice extent continued to track below normal. By the end of January, ice extent dropped below the extent observed in January 2007. Ice extent was unusually low in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic, the one major... » read this article