Cyclist Todd Miller in Lisbon (L) and Istanbul (R), the two ends of his cross-continental ride.
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From making ecocide a criminal offense to giving animals their own legal public defenders , TreeHugger has often explored the notion of how and how far the law should recognize the rights of our non-human neighbors. Over at Permaculture Magazine, environmental lawyer Tom Brenan says that “Wild Law” should be at the very heart of our entire lega… Read the full story on TreeHugger Photo credit: Señor Codo via Fotopedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 You might have already heard that after a long and arduous political battle, Australia is on track to institute a fairly potent carbon tax . After the measure passes the upper house (where the political composition is such that it is assured to do so), the nation’s 500 largest polluters will begin … Read the full story on TreeHugger All Antarctica photos: Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Consortium , Neil Ross/University of Edinburgh Cocktail party fact incoming: There are hundreds of liquid lakes that lie miles beneath Antarctica. A little over a year ago, Alex wrote about David Breashears’ Rivers of Ice project, which documents how glaciers are receding. The BBC has a very cool slideshow that gives you a narrated tour of various glaciers and how they have evolved (devolved?) over the past decades. It looks great, and shows a large-scale effect of global warming Photo: thewritingzone , Flickr / CC BY-SA NASA’s James Hansen, perhaps the world’s foremost climate scientist, said that “climate contrarians … have been winning the argument for several years, even though the science has become clearer.” He made the remarks yesterday at a briefing at the Royal Society in London, and went on to expound upon why scientists (and common sense) have been losing out to misinformation — and what he thinks can … Read the full story on TreeHugger Image: Lee Cannon via flickr The EPA has been considering stricter regulations of coal ash , the toxic solid waste from coal power plants that the public was largely unaware of before the photo: Jim Brickett / CC BY ND Skeptical Science previous examined the fact that the market price of coal power is artificially low because we do not directly pay for all of its impacts, particularly on air quality and climate change. People who feel these effects do pay them indirectly (i.e. The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands in the streets of the New York last week; and now Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between climate change, the corporations blocking climate action, and the rank effect of the oil industry corrupting the photo via tarsandsaction.org The New York Time’s Elisabeth Rosenthal and Dan Frosch today gave a lot of ink in the “Paper of Record” to the State Department’s decision to hire Cardno Entrix, an environmental contractor based in Houston, to write a portion of its environmental impact statement (EIS) for the permit of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. State often hires contractors for this sort of work. The problem here is that Cardno Entrix also works for TransCanada, the Canadian company that is.. |
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