By Rainey Reitman, Electronic Frontier Foundation. To protest the internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA, several companies are challenging the internet community to transfer domain names and offering special deals for these transfers.
Continue reading →By Jane Wells, Word Press Planet. Internet censorship bill SOPA PIPA to allow the U.S. government to take down web sites (presumed to be involved in copyright infringement) will be voted on by the Senate on Tuesday, January 24th. Unless 41 senators can be found to help block this vote, it is going to pass.
Continue reading →By Jay Kimball, 8020 Vision. Producing a barrel of oil consumes more and more energy. As we approach an EROI of 1:1 (in other words, consuming 1 barrel of oil to produce 1 barrel of oil) it’s game over.
Continue reading →By Lynn Herrmann, Digital Journal. According to a study by scientists at Cornell University, compared to conventional oil, gas, or coal, the shale gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has a greater impact on climate change because of a bigger greenhouse effect due to release of high levels of methane.
Continue reading →Staff, British Columbia Women’s Institute Josh Fox, You Tube. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is looking increasingly like a technology that will have to be left alone, not only because it pollutes the atmosphere and water, but also because the high-pressure injection of waste water from this process is thought to allow ancient faults to slip, leading to earthquakes.
Continue reading →By Emma Marris, Yale Environment 360. Recent studies shed light on whether species such as amphibians can move swiftly enough to new territories as their old habitats warm.
Continue reading →By Stephen Leahy, IPS | Tierramerica. Glacier water from the Cordillera Blanca, vital to northwest Peru, is decreasing 20 years sooner than expected. “The decline is permanent. There is no going back.” – Glaciologist Michel Baraer. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Isaiah Esipisu, IPS. If, in Africa and Asia, immediate action were taken to increase investment in diverse methods of water storage, then an estimated 500 million people would benefit from improved agricultural water management. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Lester Haines, The Register. Five days before an earthquake the number of male common toads in a breeding colony fell by 96 perent, and two days later the number of breeding pairs suddenly dropped to zero.
Continue reading →By Jessica Wright, Sydney Morning Herald. Anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd says it has intercepted a Japanese whaling fleet using a drone.
Continue reading →By Nicole Martinelli, International Journalists’ Network (IJN). The idea that a drone can become an eye-in-the-sky witness taking pictures or video of protests or other breaking news events is a timely one.
Continue reading →By Cathy Yamsuan and Kristine L. Alave, Philippine Daily Inquirer | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Two months before the recent huge loss of lives, Filipinos were warned to guard against climate change by protecting forests and improving drainage, as if a forest could indefinitely hold back the rising sea levels and more violent storms caused by the climatic changes brought on by the carbon emissions from developed countries.
Continue reading →By Tamino, Open Mind. With the bulk of the fluctuations due to natural factors removed, the continued course of global warming since 1979 is undeniable. Five different measures of the eath surface and lower-atmosphere temperatures agree on this, and the last two years (2009 and 2010) were the two hottest.
Continue reading →By Joshua S. Hill, Planet Save. The year 2010 saw an unusually high melting season in Greenland which subsequently caused the bedrock of the island to lose 100 billion tonnes of ice and uplift by as much as 20 millimetres.
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