Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink  (Website) Interweaving her own firsthand experiences with the compelling research of some of the world’s premier scientists, Dr. Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the critical need to protect wildlife habitat. At…

“A vital book” — Bill McKibben “Our hypermodern societies currently possess only a kindergarten-level understanding of the deeply relational nature of reality.” Relational Reality reveals the coherence among numerous surprising discoveries of the interrelated nature of reality, most of which were made since the mid-2000s. Kindred discoveries in the 20th…

Originally posted at Moyers & Company by John Light, August 8, 2014.  Read Full Article and Watch Video… First it was mysterious craters appearing in Siberia — possibly the result of the Earth belching methane as permafrost thaws and collapses. Then scientists observed methane gas bubbling to the surface from…

Originally published at Huffington Post by Jonathan Feldman, 8/21/14. Read Entire Article Now… Greenland and Antarctica are home to the two largest ice sheets in the world, and a new report released Wednesday says that they are contributing to sea level rise twice as much as they were just five…

From April 25, 2014–Moyers & Company  Watch Now The Archbishop of South Africa, Desmond Tutu, has called for an international “anti-apartheid-style boycott” against the fossil fuel industry in response to global warming. “People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change,” the Nobel…

Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. As a science journalist Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times…

Originally posted at SWITCHBOARD: National Resources Defense Council Staff Blog, by Joel Reynolds In the early morning of August 4, 2014, a major breach occurred in an earthen dam built to contain millions of tons of mining waste – called “tailings” — at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine…

Originally posted at Business Insider, by Katie Jennings Sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting, and extreme weather is becoming the norm. The negative effects of man-made climate change are here to stay — and they’re getting worse. One of the major culprits is atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning…

Originally posted at The New York Times, by Jack Healy. Seeking to head off a costly election-year fight over oil and gas drilling that could threaten vulnerable Colorado Democrats, Gov. John W. Hickenlooper said Monday that he had reached a deal to keep two antifracking measures off November’s ballots. The…

Originally posted at YES! Magazine, by Sarah van Gelder. Photo Credit: Phil Dunn. On the morning of December 19, 2008, Tim DeChristopher woke up knowing he would somehow protest an auction of oil and gas leases on federal lands in Utah’s red rock country. How he would make his views…