Environment
Today in eco-history: Dirty coal killed 45 Virginians
April 24, 2014It became the worst disaster in the country in 1938 and one of the worst coal mining disasters in Virginia history.
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Today in eco-history: Thoreau wrote “Wildness is the preservation of the world”
April 23, 2014On this day in 1851 Henry David Thoreau posits in an address to the Concord Lyceum his famous thesis that "in Wildness is the preservation of the World."
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People’s World Google Hangout focuses on shutting down the Keystone XL
April 22, 2014Part of the lead up to this week's demonstrations in Washington's against the XL Pipeline was an April 15 Google Hangout sponsored by the People's World.
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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.
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Today 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.
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