Environment

Beyond Flint: Water safety is a life or death issue

April 5, 2016 By Blake Skylar

All over the country, communities are forced to live with tainted water, and it's important to note that in many such cases, in the face of dire health concerns, states exhibit a shocking level of negligence.

A national object lesson: California’s air and coast, a buyer’s market

March 25, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn

Most recently, the South Coast Air Quality Management District upended its mission to clean our air.

Next Einstein Forum: African countries seek to keep their brain power

March 23, 2016 By Anna Musso

More than 700 persons, researchers, decision-makers, industrialists and heads of state, traced a future path for science in Africa.

Climate change: Learning from the past

March 10, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn

We ignore the interwoven connection between population growth and climate change at our own peril.

Lead in Flint water, mold in Detroit schools

March 4, 2016 By David Bacon

The catastrophic levels of pollution and destruction are a direct result of extreme right-wing policies.