Environment

Scientists Say Ongoing Weather Extremes Offer Proof of Climate Change

By Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

Record-shattering heatwaves, wildfires and freak storms are a sampling of what is to come in 2012 and a window to the future.

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What GIS Mapping Technology Can Tell You About the Health of Your Neighborhood and Your Risk for Illness

By Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

Newest Victims of Climate Change: Notes From a Wildfire Refugee

By John Calderazzo / High Country News

It's a Safe Health-Food Wonder, Agricultural Dream and Economic Jackpot: It's Time to End our Government's Insane Hemp Prohibition

By Jill Richardson / AlterNet

As Farms Bite the Dust, "Megadrought" May Be the New Normal in the Southwest

By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

We Have to Be on Guard About False Solutions for Climate Change

Whistleblower: Nuclear Disaster in America Is More Likely Than the Public Is Aware of

Watch: Bill O'Reilly-Loving Climate-Denier Breaks Down After Watching Documentary 'Chasing Ice,' Vows to Stop Climate Change

Environment

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

The City of The Future: It's Changing -- But Into What?

Michael Keller / Txchnologist

System Failure: We Are Approaching the End of Society As We Know It -- And That May Be a Good Thing

Terrence McNally / AlterNet

4 Things Obama Has in Common With Dick Cheney

Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch.com

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

It's No Longer Enough to Regulate Corporate Greed: The Global Water Crisis Demands a Paradigm Shift

Maude Barlow, Meera Karunananthan / AlterNet

We Know What We're Against. Now: What Are We <i>For?</i>

David Roberts / Grist.org

Alabama Defeats Communism with Anti-Sustainability Law

Leah Nelson / SPLC's Hate Watch

'Shock Doctrine' in Action: Vital Freshwater Resources Under Attack by Privatization Capitalists

Scott Thill / AlterNet

America Could Have Dropped Big Oil Decades Ago -- What Happened?

Aaron Skirboll / AlterNet

What Will Happen at the Rio+20 Earth Summit?

Mike Sandmel / Waging Nonviolence

How to Tell if Your Favorite Companies Are Truly Progressive or Secretly Selling Out

Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

America's Urban Renaissance Is Being Driven by Thinking Small

Will Doig / Salon

Why Some of Our Last Remaining Old-Growth Forests May Be Privatized for a Political Favor

Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

Revealed: NY Governor Plans to Experiment with Fracking in Economically Struggling Areas

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Will Colorado Transform its Water Law to Prioritize the Public Good?

Heather Hansen / High Country News

Obama Is Fast-tracking an Environmental Disaster to Please Big Oil

Subhankar Banerjee / ClimateStoryTellers.org

Will 'Green Economics' Help Save the Environment or Just Sell it Off to Corporations?

Jim Shultz / AlterNet

10 New Mind-Blowing Discoveries

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Not for Sale: Why We Can't Save the Planet By Putting a Price on Nature

Tom B.K. Goldtooth / Global Exchange

How the Green Economy Has Been Hijacked by the Greed Economy

Pablo Solón / Global Exchange

Fracking Los Angeles: What Life Is Like on the Country's Biggest Urban Oilfield

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Oil-Soaked Bears and Fake Businessmen: How the Yes Men and Greenpeace Punked Shell

Brooke Jarvis / Salon

Time to Ditch Our Profit-Hungry Corporate Economy: Here's What the Future Could Look Like Instead

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

The Dark Side to North Dakota's Oil Boom

Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica

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