Senator Gaylord Nelson: “Our Goal Is an Environment of Decency”
The Water Carriers of Central Malawi and the Trócaire Campaign
The video clip above, of villagers in Central Malawi gathering the day's water, is part of an extraordinary interactive story published recently on the Irish Times site by Trócaire, a Catholic charity in Kildare, Ireland that works in over 20 countries across Africa,...
Pace Clinic Students Parse School Food, By the Letter
CAFO: A Four-Letter Word Found in School Cafeterias By The Food Justice Team Pace Environmental Policy Clinic Note: Students from the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic launched their ePolicy blog with features spanning circus animal abuse, microgrid development,...
Climate Change Affects the Poor by Patrick Chappatte
«« »» Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for The International New York Times, formerly known as the International Herald Tribune, which has published his work since 2001. His cartoons have been featured in five books published by the newspaper. The latest...
Student Environmental Policy Clinic: New York Law Could End Elephant Torture in Circuses
By the Circus Animal Team Pace Environmental Policy Clinic Note: This week, our students from the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic launched their ePolicy blog, featuring news and updates on their docket of cases. The article below, by the Clinic's Circus Animal Team,...
Students Enter Public Arena Through Pace Academy’s Environmental Policy Clinic
Undergraduates Tackle Energy, Food Justice, Invasive Species and Animal Torture Only seven weeks into the inaugural semester of the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic, an intensive program of professional advocacy training, twelve Pace University students are already...
There Was Once a Time: Shad, Fishermen & the Hudson
It is shad season on the Hudson River, but there are no shad fishermen. In 2010, New York State halted commercial fishing of American shad because of a crashing population, bringing to an end a centuries-old tradition, and the reputation of the Hudson River as an...
Kerr-McGee, Anadarko to Pay $5.15 Billion for Contaminating the United States
Kerr-McGee, the energy company that for forty years has famously lingered in the shadow of suspicion for the killing of worker Karen Silkwood, engaged in a massive fraud to avoid culpability for contaminating hundreds of sites across the nation with radioactive and...
IPCC: Climate Change is Here, World Must Adapt
By Andrea Thompson Senior Science Writer Climate Central This is Andrea Thompson's first post for EarthDesk. Andrea reports on extreme weather and climate change for Climate Central, and previously wrote for Live Science and Space.com. This article appeared on Climate...
Frequency by xkcd
Frequency by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License «« »» xkcd is the webcomic creation of Randall Munroe, an extraordinarily popular web presence whom we feature regularly on EarthDesk. He draws on science...
Which Crow Lover Do You Think Is Breaking the Law?
Keeping a crow as a pet is a crime. Possession of a live crow requires a federal permit, which is difficult to obtain and typically limited to researchers and wildlife rehabilitators. Federal Law permits the hunting and killing of crows by the thousands for sport....
What’s a Crow? by Joe Mohr
«« »» We are pleased to call Joe Mohr a friend of EarthDesk. We enjoy his irreverence. Environmentalism needs more of it. Joe is a talented and committed environmental and political cartoonist, and an excellent illustrator, designer and writer. He is the creator of...