Environment
On fourth anniversary of Gulf disaster EPA lets BP off the hook
April 22, 2014Today is the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and dumped more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period in 2010.
Read moreToday in eco-history: Wilderness explorer John Muir born
April 21, 2014Muir was a wilderness explorer and was the first Euro-American to explore Glacier Bay. In 1882 John Muir co-founded the Sierra Club with Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at UC Berkeley.
Read moreWe are dead: Climate change and Guy McPherson
April 18, 2014Climate change is the sickness of our civilization, and the prognosis is bleak.
Read moreNorth Dakota oil boom comes with a price
April 18, 2014Not too long ago we were all marveling at the "wonderful" oil boom in North Dakota; as we should know from our own history, all booms come at a price, and they are paying that price now.
Read moreToday in eco-history: 1906 San Francisco earthquake
April 18, 2014The tremor and fires resulting from it destroyed 80 percent of the city.
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