Science

Labor organizer wins MacArthur “genius grant”

September 17, 2014 By World Combined Sources

Ai-jen Poo is a labor organizer whose compelling vision is transforming the landscape of working conditions and labor standards for domestic or private-household workers.

Climate change to spell doom for U.S. bird species

September 12, 2014 By Blake Skylar

As a million people plan to participate in the People's Climate March at the UN on Septrmbrt 21, experts have issued a new warning that many species of American birds are facing extinction.

The people, Wall Street, and the planetary emergency

September 8, 2014 By John Bachtell

Solutions to the climate crisis inevitably collide with the capitalist system and its inherent need for endless expansion based on a ruthless drive for maximum profit.

Wildfires grow while budget to fight them is depleted

August 8, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The U.S. Forest Service's annual budget for fighting wildfires is rapidly dwindling; in fact, it may run out by the end of the month: the fires, on the other hand, will keep burning.

“The Sixth Extinction” or how humanity, perching on tree limb, saws it off

August 6, 2014 By John Bachtell

Writer Elizabeth Kolbert passionately describes how human destruction of ecological systems is causing a great mass extinction of biological species, including possibly humanity itself.