Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following through on his commitment to action during his Journey to Justice Tour, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the first in a series of actions on Wednesday responding directly to concerns of communities historically and disproportionately impacted by pollution in the South, including “Cancer Alley”…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a story lurking in the woods near here that may be a very real on the ground test of whether humans have a chance to save the planet, whether the United States will play a very real key role in this effort, and whether Democrats are…
On 75th Anniversary, The Time is the Closest to Midnight in Clock’s History – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the past year offered glimmers of hope that humankind might reverse its march toward global catastrophe, the Doomsday Clock was set at just 100 seconds to midnight on Thursday. The time is based on…
Guest Column – By Jonathan Sharp – Environmental racism is a kind of racial inequality prevalent in the United States of America and around the world. Environmentally toxic plants, dumping grounds and similar sites are often located in low-income areas populated by people of color. Exposure to materials in and around these sites often lead…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service will offer five entrance fee-free days in 2022, free admission days designed to encourage discovery and visitation of the country’s variety of national parks. With at least one in every state, national parks are accessible places to visit to refresh the body, mind and spirit, according to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If ever there lived a scientist who came closest to figuring out the essence of human nature and what we need to do to survive on planet Earth, it was Edward Osborne Wilson from Birmingham, Alabama, who reached the zenith of the biological sciences at Harvard and provided…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scientists for decades have been warning that climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy would cause more destructive and costly hurricanes to hit the continental United States with increasing ferocity. Study after study show this to be the case. But as…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The endangered California spotted owl has long been a symbol in the battle between preserving the environment and allowing the cutting of trees in the American West, a political football between those who want to protect the environment for wildlife and those who believe private profits for people…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration says the United States will for the first time heavily regulate the potent greenhouse gas methane, which leaks from oil and natural gas platforms and is a significant source of air pollution that is contributing to warming the atmosphere 80 times as fast as carbon dioxide,…
85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two new science reports out Monday show that climate change is leading to major health threats against humanity and that at least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events…
Staff Report – Summer 2021 was the hottest summer on record, according to 126 years of records for the contiguous United States. So says a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released Thursday. The average temperature for all of the Lower 48 states from June through August was 74.0 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2.6…
Staff Report – Hurricane Ida’s deadly and destructive siege of wind and flooding from Louisiana to the Northeast virtually guarantees the retirement of that name from future use. Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane name lists repeat every six years unless a storm is so severe that the name is retired from future lists. This avoids…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ida is a feminine given name found in Europe and North America, also popular in Scandinavian countries, where it is pronounced Ee-da. The name has an ancient Germanic etymology meaning “industrious” or “prosperous” and derives from the Germanic root id meaning “labor, work.” Clearly the National Hurricane Center,…
Staff Report – Hurricane Ida’s catastrophic crawl across Louisiana inundated miles of roadways and neighborhoods, ripped apart buildings and trapped hundreds of residents who can’t call 911 because service has been knocked out, and cannot be rescued because conditions are still too treacherous to reach them. At least one levee overtopped in lower Jefferson Parish,…
Staff Report – Ida roared ashore in southeastern Louisiana on Sunday as a category 4 hurricane, bringing several feet of storm surge flooding and extreme winds that are crushing the Gulf Coast, according to reporting from the Weather Channel. Reports continue to trickle out of Grand Isle, Louisiana, detailing the disastrous conditions there, where water…
By Abrahm Lustgarten – ProPublica – On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage large enough to fit three standing adults and was lowered 600 feet through a black hole into the ground. There, at the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of children just in the United States have been diagnosed with some form of attention deficit disorder and/or hyperactivity disorder by psychiatrists and psychologists, and are often treated with pharmaceutical medication or behavioral therapy. But what if these problems are not genetic or cultural psychological issues, but…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s official, and one for the record books. July was the hottest month ever recorded in human history, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information.. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” NOAA Administrator Rick…
Editor’s Note: How can we open up the eyes and ears, hearts and minds of human beings to face facts and help deal with humanity’s most pressing problems, like wearing masks and getting vaccines to avoid infection from the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 and to prevent spreading the virus to others, or realizing that global…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — James Rhodes of Coulterville, California can attest to how hot it was in June, even at 1800 feet above sea level in the shadow of Yosemite National Park and only a three hour drive from San Francisco. “It’s been really hot,” he said, with one wildfire in the…
