by Guest Contributor | Mar 29, 2015 | EarthDesk Sunday
Brazil’s worst drought in a century may cause its largest city, Sao Paulo, to go dry. There is little relief in sight.
by Guest Contributor | Mar 24, 2015 | Climate Change, Ecology, Law & Policy, Water
A sweeping ocean conveyor system that ushers warm tropical waters into the North Atlantic appears to have partly recovered from a near-collapse around the time that the Beatles were breaking up.
by Guest Contributor | Mar 22, 2015 | Climate Change, EarthDesk Sunday
Patrick “Pat” Bagley is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah.
by John Cronin | Mar 20, 2015 | Health, Homelessness, Human Sustainability, Law & Policy, Poverty
What’s wrong with this public bench? It prevents this: The internationally famous, 87-year old Strand Bookstore in New York City’s Greenwich Village calls itself “a community bookstore first and foremost.” In 2013, it installed a sprinkler system that...
by Guest Contributor | Mar 15, 2015 | EarthDesk Sunday
Located on the northern shores of the island of Java, the Indonesian capital of Jakarta is on the front line of climate change.
by John Cronin | Mar 13, 2015 | Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
The route of oil trains that transport volatile Bakken crude along the Hudson River is often described as running “adjacent” or “past” the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In fact, it runs under the military campus through a tunnel above...
by John Cronin | Mar 8, 2015 | Animal Welfare, EarthDesk Sunday
The March 5 announcement by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that it will halt the use of elephants brought additional, welcome news to circus-going families. Donald Trump announced via Twitter he too will end his appearances at The Greatest Show on...
by John Cronin | Mar 6, 2015 | Energy, Law & Policy, Pollution
A demand by the environmental organization Riverkeeper to “Stop the Bomb Trains” was once derided by critics as hyperbole. No longer. On Thursday, 21 of 103 railcars carrying Bakken crude derailed, causing some to burst into flames alongside the Upper...