How Oil will Disperse if a Disaster Occurs at the Enbridge Pipelines in the...
This is another gem brought to us from our friends at SURF.org (SUSTAIN, UNITE, RESTORE, FORTIFY) This is a video that was commissioned as a part of a report by the NWF with the University of Michigan...
View ArticleE.O. Wilson has a plan to save the world
Eminent Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, the great champion of biodiversity and the man who coined the term “biophelia,” has a plan to save the world from extinction. It is a plan to set aside half of...
View ArticleFind Your Community on U.S. Oil Train Blast Zones Map
A new website has published an interactive map of the U.S and Canadian Rail system that is being used to transport millions of gallons of potentially dangerous crude oil. The lines run through cities...
View ArticleVeolia Water Company slams into Detroit!
The city of Detroit’s state appointed emergency manager has hired the notorious Veolia North America, the American subsidiary of the equally notorious Veolia Environment, headquartered in Paris....
View ArticleCanada Now Leads Brazil in Deforestation
Scientists from the University of Maryland, Greenpeace, Global Forest Watch, and the World Resources Institute are tracking global forest decline and have announced that the rate of decline is...
View ArticleHalf of North American Bird species face disruption,decline
The National Audubon Society released a report this past Tuesday, September 9, indicating that 314 North American Bird species are on the brink, due to shifting and shrinking ranges that have a...
View ArticleThe Green Shock Doctrine
Earlier this year the Global Justice Ecology Project published the Green Shock Doctrine. The publication announced a new understanding of exactly what the people of the world are facing in the context...
View ArticleFirst toxic algae and now cargo dumping in Great Lakes
Barely a month ago sink taps ran dry in the city of Toledo, Ohio, USA, due to toxic algae blooming in Lake Erie. Nearly half a million people were affected by the toxic concoction that occurred by a...
View ArticleCourt rules that the right to water is not enforceable in Detroit
A bankruptcy judge in Detroit has ruled that there is not an enforceable right to free and affordable water, contradicting the United Nations declaration that water is a basic human right. We have...
View ArticleInvasive Species and The GE/GMO Relationship
Most readers of Climate Connections know that we at the Global Justice Ecology Project, Campaign to STOP GE Trees, and Biofuelwatch, consider that GE Trees can be highly invasive species. These...
View ArticleNew York faces new fracking deadline
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo turned more than a few heads last night at a televised election debate held in Buffalo, New York, when he said that the state’s long awaited public release of its...
View ArticleThe American Chestnut Foundation puts forests at risk with Frankentrees!
The American Chestnut Foundation is leading efforts to introduce genetically engineered (GE) American Chestnut trees back into the eastern North American deciduous forest ecosystem. The native tree...
View ArticleReport: Great Lakes Bees Continue Decline
Great Lakes Echo published a piece this week outlining declining honey and wild bee populations in the Great Lakes. Bee populations continue to decline across the world and are linked to agricultural...
View ArticleNASA warns water crisis could lead to food supply collapse.
The Buffalo staff may be a little distracted this week. A giant Lake Effect snowstorm has shut down the city. This co-managing editor is currently stuck at my home in South Buffalo under a State of...
View ArticleNY Times chronicles Monarch Buttterfly struggle
While we continue to be beleaguered in Buffalo by this historic storm, we remain cheerful and optimistic that spring will be here again, eventually. Really, we do believe this. Meanwhile, here is our...
View ArticleThe Climate Connection to the Buffalo Storm
If you are reading this and are familiar with Climate Connections, none of this will be news to you. Climate change and weather patterns are inextricably linked. The mainstream media is a mixed bag of...
View ArticleCultivating Climate Justice III/IV: Zero Waste Collectives and Activists in...
This is a tale of two US cities building solutions to the climate crisis from the bottom up. We start in the Northeast, with Cooperative Energy, Recycling and Organics (CERO), a newly formed...
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