NEWS
Biomass Firms Tell Bright Green Lies
Editor's Note: Saplings cannot replace mature forests, with their hundreds of years of biodiversity and carbon sequestration. The biomass industry is destroying mature forests with a promise of planting saplings. Even if it had come from "waste wood," huge amounts of...
Europe Removed Dams at a Surprising Rate
Editor's note: Dams change the way rivers function and they impact water quality. Slow-moving or still artificial lakes heat up. This results in abnormal temperature fluctuations which affect sensitive species and lead to algal blooms and decreased oxygen levels....
Corporate Capture of Global Biodiversity Efforts of UN Summit
Editor's Note: The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) was held from the 7th to 19th of December, 2022 in Montreal, Canada. This article was published shortly before that. It highlights how the COP has been hijacked by corporate interests. Corporate capture of...
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New Lawsuit Challenging Thacker Pass Mine [Press Release]
February 17, 2023 Late yesterday, three Native American Tribes — the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Summit Lake Paiute Tribe — launched a major new lawsuit against the Thacker Pass lithium mine. Will Falk is representing RSIC and SLPT in this...
Storm on Lützerath: Evicting a Hundred Villages for Coal
Editor's Note: Due to their early adoption of renewables, Germany has been hailed as an example by mainstream environmentalists. The myth that Germany is cutting back on fossil fuel has already been debunked in Bright Green Lies. With their main supplier of fossil...
How Many More Dead Whales?
By Carl van Warmerdam In the last few years whales stranded on the beaches of the East Coast have become common. In just the past two months there have been over a dozen. And that does not include the whales who have died in that time and sank to the bottom of the...
ANALYSIS
Renewable Energy Isn’t Replacing Fossil Fuel Energy
Editor's note: It is true that wind and heat from the sun are renewable but the devices used to capture that energy are not. Creating such devices only adds on to a non-existing carbon budget. Richard Heinberg, the author of the following article, is an advocate for...
Social Movements in Defense of Our Territories Are Our Hope
Editor's Note: The mainstream environmental movement has been co-opted not only into believing that renewables can save the planet, but also in the tactics used to accomplish that. A lot of the movement uses advocacy as the one and only strategy against systems of...
Declaring Climate Emergency – What Does It Really Mean?
Editor's note: Mainstream environmentalists have been demanding that countries across the world declare a "climate emergency." But what does a climate emergency mean? What will the consequences be? Is there a possibility that it will be more detrimental to the...
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