Dismantling of Fishery Library ‘Like a Book Burning,’ Say Scientists
Government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Shuts Down 'World Class' Collection on Freshwater Science and Protection By Andrew Nikiforuk Editor's Note: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's aggressive advocacy for the Alberta tar sands project has made him a target...
Christmas Fun
Editor's Note: Recently, our Pace Academy colleague Andy Revkin posted a self-authored Christmas cartoon on his New York Times Dot Earth blog (below). The ire it raised is as funny as the drawing. "Anti-environmentalist," said one dour commenter. Another made a...
Nelson Mandela, July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013
Soda Planet
How much of the Earth's currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history? By xkcd/Randall Munroe Every Tuesday, the xkcd what if? webpage answers your hypothetical questions with physics. The above question was submitted by...
Short (!) and Sweet (?): Pup-hood for Gray Seals
By Elizabeth Bradfield Editor's Note: EarthDesk is delighted to welcome back Elizabeth Bradfield (EarthDesk, October 13). This post also appears on her blog, The Haul Out, which explores the reestablishment of gray seals on Cape Cod, its effects "on those of us who...
Russian Law by Arend van Dam
«« »» Arend van Dam is a Dutch political cartoonist whose work has appeared in Reformed Netherlands, Central Weekly, Time, the Financial Times, and the Agrarian Dagblad among others. In addition to his cartoon work, he is also a book illustrator. He sometimes works...
29 of Arctic 30 Released on Bail. Media Ignore the Real Story: The New Cold War
The global, political drama behind the Greenpeace protest at the Gazprom oil platform (EarthDesk, October 2) is being obscured by the news media's longstanding fascination with cartoonish Russian and Soviet officials. Think Vladimir Putin shirtless, Leonid Brezhnev's...
So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the...
Can Disaster Capitalism Sell Climate Change?
Did climate change cause Typhoon Haiyan? Time Magazine says no. Australia's Sidney Morning Herald says yes. The UK's Guardian says maybe. So goes the news media standoff on climate and superstorms. Duracell is less ambivalent. "There will be more powerful storms,"...
Buttercup Festival by David Troupes
«« »» Buttercup Festival is the webcomic creation of artist and poet David Troupes. Though he brought Series II to an end on November 4, it and Series I reside in their full surreality, whimsy and beauty on his website here. He temporarily retired BF to focus on...
2013 Seventh of Top Ten Warmest Years — World Metereological Organization
Editor's Note: The year 2013 is currently tied with 2003 as seventh of the top ten warmest years, according to a provisional report issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to coincide with COP 19, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in...
Typhoon Haiyan: A Disaster of Nature, Pollution or Poverty?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwYJQfW3Xj8 Barely had Typhoon Haiyan moved on from its Philippines landfall before its origins were blamed on climate change. That nation's climate representative, Yeb Sano, made an agonizing plea and pledged a hunger strike at...