Environment

Scientists May Have Uncovered a Key to Understanding Why Many Women Get Breast Cancer

By Lindsey Konkel / Environmental Health News

We may be one step close to understanding why some women with no family history develop breast cancer.

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Will Plans for Massive Tunnels to Pipe Northern California Water South Mean a Boon for Fracking?

By Dan Bacher / AlterNet

Study Suggests 'Moral Purity' May Overcome Right-Wing Resistance to Environmental Science

By Paul Rosenberg / AlterNet

10 Stunning Things You Should Know About the Environmental Movement -- 'A Fierce Green Fire' Film Inspires

By Scott Thill / AlterNet

Fracking-Fueled Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege

By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica

What Will It Take for Us to Recognize That the Way We Live Could Be Destroying Life as We Know It?

Is Climate Change Fueling a Deadly Disease in California and Other Parched States?

'Follow the Money': How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants

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Environment

Natural Gas Glut: Wall Street Is Driving the Shale Gas Boom Like it Did the Housing Mortgage Scandal

Andrew Nikiforuk / The Tyee

Nanoparticles Are in Our Food, Clothing and Medicine -- And No One Knows for Sure How Dangerous They Might Be

Heather Millar / Orion Magazine

Did John Kerry Send a Signal on Keystone XL Decision?

Meteor Blades / Daily Kos

To Eat Quinoa or Not: As the Controversy Continues, Are We Even Asking the Right Questions?

Tanya Kerssen / AlterNet

5 Reasons the Keystone Pipeline Is Bad for the Economy

Brendan Smith / AlterNet

How the Government Is Pinching Pennies and Cutting Corners When it Comes to Nuclear Safety

Gar Smith / AlterNet

How EPA Climate Protection Can Be America's Greatest Jobs Producer

Jeremy Brecher / AlterNet

The Five Stages of Environmental Grief

Richard Schiffman / AlterNet

The ATM for Climate Denial: Shadowy Group Bankrolls Vast Network of Science Skeptics

Aaron Mate, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Why the Nuclear Industry Is Beginning to Collapse

Harvey Wasserman / AlterNet

Playing Golf as the Planet Burns: Obama Meets With Oil-Man as Protesters Call for Halt to Keystone Pipeline

Medea Benjamin / AlterNet

Thousands Descend on Washington DC to Pressure Obama to Keep His Climate Change Promise

Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

Livestream: Watch the Forward on Climate Rally and March in Washington DC

AlterNet

Why the Sierra Club Lifted Its Ban on Civil Disobedience to Protest Keystone XL Pipeline

Lauren Feeney / Moyers & Company

48 Arrested at Keystone Pipeline Protest as Sierra Club Lifts 120-Year Ban on Civil Disobedience

Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Why You Can Thank Our War on Drugs For Roses Grown by Exploited Labor and Toxic Chemicals

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

We Can Work Less, Make More Money and Save the Planet

David Rosnick / AlterNet

High Profile Activists Arrested Today in Front of the White House Demanding Obama Deny the Keystone XL Pipeline

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Anti-Fracking Activists Applaud as NY Further Delays a Decision on Whether to Allow Fracking

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

We Did Not Come This Far to Turn Around Now: Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally in DC

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. / Daily Kos

How Our Machine-Based Way of Life is Not Only Destroying Nature, It Is Also Destroying Us

Salvatore Folisi / Xander Stone Ink

State Of Denial: More Dirty Energy Policies Expected From Koch-Fueled Marco Rubio

Rebecca Leber / Climate Progress

NY Fracking Scandal: Seven Groups Demand Conflict of Interest Investigation of Cuomo Administration

Steve Horn / DeSmogBlog

Conservative Folly: How the Right's War on Renewable Energy Could Doom Red States

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

Power, Privilege, and Climate Change: A Tale of Two Presidents

Joseph Nevins / AlterNet

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