| May 29, 2013 | Environment / HealthWealth and power Bring this curse, Air and water Ever worse. Whether a country’s capitalist or communist, a dictatorship or a democracy, it makes no difference to Mother Nature. Regardless of the dominant economic philosophy or form of government, the...
| Jul 23, 2012 | Environment / HealthNature’s on A downward path, Save her with Some voter wrath. America’s rare environmental victories often earn headlines. They might involve the successful blocking of a dangerous pipeline, a new mercury standard for coal, or perhaps the signing of a...
| Jan 23, 2012 | Environment / HealthWe cheered when the Obama administration formally denied a federal permit for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline put forth by Canadian oil giant TransCanada. The 1,700-mile pipeline would have run through six states, carrying toxic, highly corrosive tar sands...
| Mar 28, 2011 | Environment / Health“Let’s Save Nature!” Good advice; Unless we have To sacrifice. Protecting the environment has billions of supporters worldwide. Unfortunately, they’re not the people who count. Earth’s biggest polluter, for example, is the U.S. military....
| May 10, 2010 | Environment / HealthGreed and war Do ne’er relent, Defiling our Environment. Who would believe that modern-day pirates are some of nature’s best friends? It seems that those troublesome Somali buccaneers have scared off the cursed international factory trawlers from a long...
