New pesticide link to sudden decline in bee population
US study says nerve agent causes Colony Collapse Disorder.
Environmental author Bill McKibben speaks in Charleston in the U.S. about climate crisis and localizing economies
Bill McKibben came to Charleston to do something he doesn’t particularly like to do: organize.
The leading environmentalist author appeared at the College of Charleston on Thursday to give the 10th annual community lecture in science and mathematics.
The FBI in the United States must hand over evidence tied to bombing that injured activists
The FBI must hand over evidence tied to a decades-old car bombing in the Bay Area in which two Earth First activists were injured, a federal judge ruled. On May 24, 1990, a pipe bomb wrapped with nails exploded under the Subaru wagon of environmentalist Judi Bari in Oakland, Calif. Bari and a fellow activist, Darryl Cherney, were seriously injured in the blast.
Not a choice between the economy and the environment
To many people the most prominent debate of the day is seemingly between the economy and the environment, and in today’s economic climate the health of the economy is often deemed more important.
Environmentalism, in some circles, is still thought to be only about protecting trees and cuddly animals instead of trying to protect the environmental conditions necessary to ensure the health of people all over the world. While environmentalists and environmental NGOs actually spend a great deal of time studying and reporting on how climate change will impact human and economic health, many people consider environmentalists to be critical and dismissive of any type of resource extraction or energy production and as never giving a thought to job creation or the impact environmental regulations would have on the profitability of certain industries.
