Uranium mining and the elections in southern Virginia
One of the most controversial issues here is maintaining the current moratorium on uranium mining in Virginia.
Coming typhoon an ill wind for nuke-nervous Japan
The typhoon will bring hurricane-force winds, rain, and flooding to a city that is already enduring the now-global Fukushima disaster.
Workers hit with radioactive water as Fukushima disaster continues
As fresh horrors in the global Fukushima disaster continue to unfold, nuclear plant workers are the latest victims.
Fukushima now a global disaster
More than two years after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl and after more than two years of denial and cover-up, the Japanese government on Oct. 6, through Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has requested global aid.
Fracking site unleashes radioactive water into Pa. creek
In the latest incident of environmental poisoning caused by fracking, a wastewater treatment facility in Pennsylvania is spewing radioactive water into the local Blacklick Creek.
Oil-tarnished land left in wake of Colorado flood
Tthe floods have left 10 dead and 200 still unaccounted for, destroyed at least 15,000 homes across 17 counties, damaged at least 11 oil and gas locations, and now the resultant leaks and spills threaten to become a brand new disaster.
New divestment movement targets fossil fuel giants
The movement, called Fossil Free, features the motto, "It's wrong to profit from wrecking the climate."
The real scientific uncertainties about climate change
The real debates are about whether climate change will be catastrophic within years or within decades, and about whether or not we have already passed crucial environmental tipping points.
March on Washington's powerful lessons for the environmental movement
Like the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, the environmental movement has both moral and practical aspects. It needs a strategy that unites both inside and outside struggles and goals.
Rim Fire the latest record-breaker in year of unrelenting disasters
As the changing climate continues to trigger disaster and disruption, California's Rim Fire, which has burned 235,841 acres, is the latest to be added to this year's list of brushfires.
