Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege; and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, among... » read this article

Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception - by Alex Bogusky The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff is in the middle of everything you see and read about Genetically Modified Organisms. This is our highest rated live show to date and Jeff... » read this article

Book review: THE COMING FAMINE - The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It, By Julian Cribb Fifty years ago, a billion people were undernourished or starving; the number is about the same today. That’s actually progress, since a billion represented a third of the human... » read this article

Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet... » read this article

28 August 2010 A major environmental scandal has featured in the German media since the spring of this year. In Dortmund transformers were dismantled and recycled by the company Envio Recycling GmbH & Co. The recycling process resulted in setting free highly poisonous PCB chemicals in what amounts to a... » read this article

Update 2: Due to the extremely high degree of interest and numerous comments generated by this event, we interviewed authorities today and took them the questions YOU posted in our forums. (Posted below the video) Update 1: The number of dead fish and other water-dependent wildlife has increased to about... » read this article

Together with cooperation partners from the U.S., the researchers surrounding Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (Physical Chemistry II of the RUB) describe their discovery in a so-termed Rapid Communication in the prestigious American chemistry journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The journal's independent reviewers evaluated the work as... » read this article

"Nowadays, nearly three quarters of genetically-manipulated plants harvested worldwide originate from Monsanto's labs. Monsanto is a U.S. based corporate group which calls the dismal inventions such as DDT, PCB and Agent Orange its own. In its efforts to gain absolute hegemony over plants - from the field all the way... » read this article

CHARSADDA, Pakistan - In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool. "This was our house," the 30-year-old Sirajuddin, who goes by only one name as is common... » read this article

Editorial comment: The latest reports from Pakistan give us the numbers of victims: there are 20 million displaced persons (nearly 12 percent of Pakistan’s population) and 1600 people have died. There are on-going dangers of deadly diseases increasing the numbers of victims of this catastrophic natural disaster. "The World Health... » read this article

When you immerse yourself in the climate debate, it's easy to get lost in the peer-reviewed papers, data and science. But I try not to lose sight of the fact that the reason I care about climate change is because of its impact on humanity. Right now, people are being... » read this article

Celebrity chef Alice Waters is the world’s most famous advocate of growing and eating local, organic food. In February 2010, Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation chose as its new executive director “green socialite” and liberal political activist Francesca Vietor. But Vietor’s hiring created a conflict of interest that has married Waters... » read this article

Individually, insects might not seem like candidates for intellectual plaudits. But collectively they have a brilliance that can teach us new skills Insects, birds, fish – they're not the most intelligent of beasts, right? Creepy crawlies or aquatic creatures are the ones humans feel furthest from; unlike many mammals, they... » read this article

UN Humanitarian Chief John Holmes: The Magnitude of the Pakistan Floods Is UnprecedentedThe United Nations is warning millions of Pakistanis are at risk of deadly waterborne diseases more than two weeks since Pakistan’s worst-ever flooding began. The World Health Organization says around six million people—over half of them children—face the... » read this article

NOAA's Bill Lehr says three-quarters of the oil that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon rig is still in sea while scientists identify 22-mile plume in ocean depths. Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at the NOAA, appeared before Congress to repudiate an earlier report he wrote, which suggested the majority of... » read this article

12 August 2010 In a deal that has sweeping, long-term implications for millions of people living and working along the US Gulf Coast, the Obama administration has agreed to base the payments by BP to the oil disaster fund on the oil giant’s profits from its drilling operations in the... » read this article

Editor's Note: This brilliant move by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa reflects his education, humanistic philosophy and his view that nature is sacred. He speaks 4 languages, Spanish, French, Quechua, and English. He holds degrees in Economics from universities in Ecuador, Belgium and a PhD from the University of Illinois in the US.... » read this article

(2 articles) Article 1 Palm Coast FL (SPX) Aug 10, 2010 - The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event beloved by millions of skywatchers around the world, returns to the night sky this week. And because the Moon is new, there will be no moonlight to hinder the view.... » read this article

A siege of cranes, not seen in the British countryside for 400 years - are being prepared for release into the wild after being hand-reared by carers dressed in bird costumes. The 21 birds were bred in captivity and raised at 'crane school' where they were taught how to forage... » read this article

As flooding in Pakistan disrupts millions of lives, and huge areas of Russian forest burn, many people are wondering whether they are linked. Flooding of a 1,000km stretch along the Indus river has already claimed about 1,600 lives, and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes. Over 13 million people... » read this article