Dilma's dilemma: Urge Brazil to veto new forest code
Following years of intense pressure from the agribusiness sector, Brazil's parliament has approved destructive reforms to the country's forest...
Rural towns devise unique plans to solve water problems
For a good part of its rich history, residents of unincorporated Allensworth, the first African American colony west of the Mississippi, have gone without a...
Losing Your Religion: Analytic Thinking Can...
Scientific American... . Losing Your Religion: Analytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief A series of new experiments shows that analytic thinking can...
Polar bears now have symptoms of mystery disease...
Symptoms of a mysterious disease that has killed scores of seals off Alaska and infected walruses are now showing up in polar bears, the U.S. Geological Survey...
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5Mr. Kyl and Mr. McCain have introduced a bill known as the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement, which would require the tribes to waive their...
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6Well well, President Obama is rubbing elbows with Hugh Grant CEO of Monsanto today at this symposium as well as other chemical polluters like Syngenta. If you read...
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7The hardest most rewarding experience any woman could ever have. My personal experience saw me going into trauma in labor as my son was transverse and I was not...
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8Millions of people are locked in a vicious cycle of hunger and poverty. Poverty means parents can't feed their families enough nutritious food, leaving children...
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9When home-front battles over GMO labeling, beekeeping, and the Farm Bill get heated, we can sometimes lose sight of the fact that Big Ag’s influence extends far...
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10"A Midwestern atheist tells of sitting in her lunchroom at work and listening as conversation opened up around her about religious differences. Her co-workers...
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11Atheism, from multiple viewpoints: "KEVIN SMITH is on the board of directors for the centre for Inquiry, Canada’s premier venue for humanists, skeptics...
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12A new movie highlighting the importance of water to our lives and the global crisis we face with ways to address it. It is good to see movies like this being made...
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13Loss of biodiversity appears to affect ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to results of a new...
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14Chut Wutty, a dedicated Cambodian activist, was shot dead at an illegal logging site by military police, on Thursday. At the time Wutty was driving with two...
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15By Ted Glick “Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people's number-one priority is finding a job and paying the mortgage and...
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16Income inequality, money & politics, American empire....and music, too. http://youtu.be/wOZYH_IHZZk
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17Through all of the Earth Days I have seen, I have discovered that the environment is about so much more than planting flowers. It is about a love that goes so deep...
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18An upcoming digital watch that connects to and displays information from smartphones, as well as its own custom applications, has raised $5 million in online...
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19For the more than sixty thousand Tarahumara Indians living in the high Sierra’s of northern Mexico, the expression connotes sharing, a tradition borne more of...
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20Talisman Energy and other corporations have set their sights on the Achuar cultural lands in Peru. This video made by the Achuar shows their life in pursuit of living...
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