Kayaktivists’ Colorful and Effective Protests in 2015
The most elaborately staged spectacle of 2015 was performed by the “kayaktivists”, a group of environmentalists that successfully stopped oil giant Royal Dutch Shell from drilling in the Arctic.
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How Do the ‘Merchants of Doubt’ Sell Skepticism?
Merchants of Doubt shows how simple it is for corporations to sell lies to the American people, and how stupid the American people are to believe them.
Trails and Ways: Pathology
World beats and poetic lyrics vie in up-tempo dance songs on this debut album
Is Humankind the New Planet and Species-Destroying Asteroid?
After fighting so long as a Cassandra of the coming ecological catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert's latest, The Sixth Extinction, embraces the long view of disaster.
‘The Sugar Season’ Is a Bittersweet Warning
The addled combinations of sap and syrup, air and gravity, evaporation and consolidation also serve as a humble harbinger of global warming.