Climate News by Adam Zyglis
«« »» Adam Zyglis is the staff editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, his hometown daily newspaper. He accepted the position fresh out of college, after winning 3 national awards as a college cartoonist. In 2004, he graduated summa cum laude from Canisius College...
Thomas Merton at 100 and His Still Perfect Ecological Theology
I AM A ROMAN CATHOLIC. Like many, I have struggled to marry ecological and spiritual principles. It is possible to coax instructive interpretations from the texts of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. But it is a largely unsatisfying effort. This leaves us with...
Senate Passes Symbolic Keystone Pipeline Bill
Although Senate sponsors will deny it, the passage of a bill to force the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would deliver petroleum from the tar sands of Canada to a port in the Gulf of Mexico, was largely symbolic. President Obama has repeatedly promised he...
Keystone Jobs by Pat Bagley
«« »» Patrick "Pat" Bagley is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah. His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian of London, The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and the...
Water Poverty in the New Mexican High Desert
The United Nations reports that more than 800 million people suffer from a lack of safe and adequate water. Its declaration on the human right to water states: The water supply for each person must be sufficient and continuous for personal and domestic uses. But the...
Reverend King, the Inescapable Network of Mutuality and the Foundering of American Environmentalism
James Gustave Speth: If there is a model it is the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. It had a dream. The dream of modern American environmentalism was founded on the dream of the American civil rights movement. You would not know it today. In his April 16, 1963...
Homeless and Waterless in America
Lava Mae Delivers Dignity One Shower at a Time More than 2 million residents of the United States experience homelessness during the year. For them, access to water and basic hygiene is non-existent or a rare luxury, not the fundamental human right the United Nations...
Je Suis Charlie
Political cartoons hold an honored place at EarthDesk. Our weekly feature, EarthDesk Sunday, has presented the works of cartoonists from around the globe more than fifty times in the last 18 months. On January 7, masked gunmen armed with assault weapons attacked the...
UN: Water is a Human Right. Detroit: Not if You’re Poor
The United Nations says water is a fundamental human right. In 2014, Detroit decided differently. The city shut off water to 17,000 residents who could not pay their water bills. The government-recognized poverty rate in Detroit is 38%. United Way says the real rate...
2015 Is the 30th Anniversary of America’s Greatest Environmental Failure
"It is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985." ~ 1972 Federal Clean Water Act, Section 101(a)(1)
EarthDesk Returns January 6, 2015
California Drought by xkcd
«« »» xkcd is the webcomic creation of Randall Munroe, an extraordinarily popular web presence whom we feature regularly on EarthDesk. He draws on science themes often and has been nominated for a Hugo Award twice, thanks to his loyal science fiction fan base. He...