Ever-Growing Human Demands Stress Biosphere: The Case of Fertilizers, Livestock Production and Dead Zones
The BBC reports that a recent scientific study in the journal Nature Communications indicates that global food production requires a “significant” boost... Read More
New Report Ignores Leading Cause of Environmental Degradation in U.S. – Population Growth
The Huffington Post reports that the 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), compiled by distinguished experts at two ivory tower Ivy League institutions... Read More
Population Ignored Yet Again; This Time at Recent Paris Talks
Every human being on Earth emits carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs), both directly and indirectly. Every time each of... Read More
More People = More Traffic as Population Crisis Grows
A recent story in The Denver Post – “Think traffic is bad around the Denver area? Just wait a decade or two”... Read More
Climate Gone Crazy
Epic California Drought Just One Manifestation of Weather Out of Whack If a picture is worth a thousand words, then perhaps 200... Read More
Aldous Huxley on Overpopulation
Brave New World author warned of threat in 1958 Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) as a young man. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is most remembered... Read More
Remembering Douglas Rainsford Tompkins, 1943-2015
Global Conservation Cause Loses a Giant to South American Kayaking Accident Douglas Rainsford Tompkins, 1943-2015 Doug Tompkins was Ohio-born and New York-bred... Read More
Dust in the Wind: Audacious ‘Desert Wheat’ Scheme Wilts in Sands of Saudi Arabia
With depletion of fossil aquifer used for irrigation, cultivating wheat in Saudi Arabia’s desert proves just another pipe dream. Flush with hundreds... Read More
Address the Cause, Not the Symptoms
A book review of Move Upstream: A Call to Solve Overpopulation, by Karen I. Shragg This is a fine little volume –... Read More
Amazonia’s Trees Threatened
The Amazon River and Basin (Amazonia) need no introduction. The river itself is by far the biggest on Earth; in fact, its... Read More