The climate movement’s biggest civil disobedience action ever is about to take Washington by storm. This is starting to get exciting. Five or six of us are hunched around a table in a small Washington office, shouting into phones and pecking away at keyboards as we count down toward the Saturday beginning of what looks like it [...]

US and Germany promise increased aid as East African drought victims continue to flood camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. East Africa’s hunger crisis has been described by a US official as one of the worst humanitarian crisis in decades amid stepped-up efforts by Western countries to provide relief aid and a decision by Kenya to open [...]

It’s Yes or No For a Climate-Killing Oil Pipeline — and Obama Gets to Make the Call The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months.  Instead of charts and graphs about what will happen someday, we’ve got real-time video: first Russia burning, then Texas and Arizona on [...]

The flooding of the Yellowstone River and the oil spill in the riverbed are connected, and the burning of fossil fuels is the key. “We’re a disaster area,” Alexis Bonogofsky told me, “and it’s going to take a long time to get over it.” Bonogofsky and her partner, Mike Scott, are all over the news this week, [...]

Severe weather events are wracking the planet, and experts warn of even greater consequences to come. The rate of ice loss in two of Greenland’s largest glaciers has increased so much in the last 10 years that the amount of melted water would be enough to completely fill Lake Erie, one of the five [...]

Dear Friends, This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age—it’s serious stuff. The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested. The full version goes [...]

La idea de extender el cultivo de los agrocombustibles en el mundo y particularmente en los países del Sur es desastrosa. Ella forma parte de una perspectiva global de solución a la crisis energética. En los próximos 50 años tendremos que cambiar de ciclo energético, pasando de la energía fósil, que [...]

Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of land, including areas around eastern Utah’s national parks, [...]

Three Strikes and You’re Hot In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying. But those nostalgic for an earlier day, take heart. The Obama administration is [...]

Un informe reciente de la asociación italiana Legambiente (Prófugos ambientales: cambio climático y migraciones forzosas), sostiene que en el año 2010 , 40 millones de personas se vieron obligadas a dejar sus territorios debido a los cambios climáticos y más generalmente debido a las crisis ambientales. Los países más afectados han [...]