Protecting Forests at Scale. The destruction of tropical forests currently accounts for 17 percent of global carbon emissions, more than all the world's cars, trucks, ships, trains and planes combined. The United Nations Framework Convention...

South America is the most diverse. It holds 5 of the world's biodiversity hotspots, as well as the biggest tropical wilderness on Earth. Between them, South America's diverse regions hold irreplaceable ecosystems teeming with life...

Global climate change is the most important environmental issue humanity has yet faced, and the window of opportunity for action is rapidly closing. In December 2009, the United Nations is meeting in Copenhagen to negotiate a climate deal that will

Tell your senator: Reject the nomination of Joseph Pizarchik as director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. As a regulator of coal mining in Pennsylvania, Pizarchik has a long history of making pro-industry decisions at the

About 100 world leaders are due to gather at the UN in New York to try to revitalise talks on climate change. Talks, talks, talks, talks, talks, talks... Results...??????

Franny Armstrong is talking about yeast. "If you put yeast in a jar and give it an energy source like sugar, it will gobble that up as fast as it can, surround itself with its own waste and then die." There is, she suggests, a close parallel between yeast

From the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, OCA has been tracking the opportunities for Monsanto, a well-known war profiteer (Agent Orange, Vietnam), to take advantage of the current occupations. These include pushing glyphosate (Monsanto's Roundu

I've been truly inspired by what thousands are doing around the country to stop mountaintop removal and Big Coal, especially by asking Lisa Jackson of the EPA to stop extending permits that would destroy more mountains. Last Monday, it was announced that

Trying to stay centered as fires rage all around California. The Acton fire is about 1 hour's drive away from me. The sky is eerie black with ash. 76 homes burned, 2 firefighters dead, thousands of homes threatened.

There are two million high-level radioactive fuel bundles sitting at temporary storage sites in Canada, as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization wrestles with the mandate of finding a community to host a central storage facility for the waste for