NEWS
Butterflies Declined by 22% in Just 2 Decades Across the US
Editor's note: "A study published in 2024 found that a change in insecticide use was a major factor in driving butterfly declines in the Midwest over 17 years. The authors, many of whom were also part of the current study, noted that the drop coincided with a shift to...
Birdsong Rings Out Once Again in Togo’s Sacred Forest of Titiyo
Editor's note: "A new study in Science indicates that reforestation projects, which restore degraded or destroyed forests, are the most effective land-based method for carbon removal and biodiversity protection. Meanwhile, the authors found that afforestation, in...
Earth’s Water Cycle Off Balance for ‘First Time in Human History’
Editor's note: Water, as well as forests, do not need to be managed. They just need to be left alone. https://youtu.be/d3Lt58tTYFk?feature=shared By Petro Kotzé / Mangabay Water seems deceptively simple and is easy to take for granted. It has no color, taste or smell...
ACTION
Mitsubishi Cancels Plans for a $1.3B Chemical Plant
Editor's note: "MMA is methyl methacrylate, a chemical compound that was banned by the FDA in the 1970s for use in nail enhancements due to its potential health hazards," Hanna says. Celebrity manicurist Julie Kandalec adds, "It's an ingredient commonly found in...
Controversial Sri Lanka Wind Power Project Withdrawn
Editor's note: "In recent years, the Southeast Asian country of Vietnam experienced a boom in renewable energy investments driven by generous feed-in tariffs, under which the state committed to buying electricity for 20 years at above-market prices. However, the high...
Community Backlash to Renewables
Editor's note: A big backlash to new "renewables" is mounting across the country. With states, corporations, utilities and the federal government setting aggressive "renewable" energy goals, as well as big tax incentives such as the Inflation Reduction Act, wind and...
ANALYSIS
The Ball Comes to Rest
By Tom Murphy / Do the Math Surfing YouTube, I came across an interview of Ezra Klein by Stephen Colbert. He was promoting a new book called Abundance, basically arguing that scarcity is politically-manufactured by “both sides,” and that if we get our political act...
Microplastics are Blotting Out Photosynthesis
Editor's note: A new report that microplastics pollution is hampering photosynthesis in plants, and that the result is the loss of some 10% of the world's primary productivity, including food crops. We are now risking to blot out the planetary photosynthesis machine,...
The Difference Between Hope and Courage
Editor's note: "I think hope is really harmful for several reasons. False hopes bind us to unlivable situations, and they blind us to real possibilities. Does anybody really think that Weyerhaeuser is going to stop deforesting because we ask nicely? Does anybody...
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