“Over earth and ocean with gentle motion This pilot is guiding me.” P.B. Shelley, The Cloud After the Haiti earthquake in 2010, which the US used as yet another excuse to militarise the tortured country’s aid relief, Hugo Chavez bravely quoted a Russian Northern Fleet document suggesting that America’s huge... » read this article

Canada is under fire for exiting the Kyoto Protocol just one day after UN climate talks ended with an agreement to extend the treaty. Putting financial interests ahead of environmental commitments is an affront to global climate protection efforts, German papers write on Wednesday.   While it may not have... » read this article

Over the next few decades we are facing the possibility, indeed the probability, of global catastrophe on a level unprecedented in human history. The message of science is clear. As James Hansen, the foremost climate scientist in the United States, has warned, this may be “our last chance to save... » read this article

We are cat people. But we’ve been talking for a year about adopting a dog. We knew there were many dogs in shelters begging for homes, others languishing in filthy cages in puppy mills, or waiting to be rescued from certain death at our local pound. The only constant was... » read this article

On Nov. 5, an earthquake measuring 5.6 rattled Oklahoma and was felt as far away as Illinois. Until two years ago, Oklahoma typically had about 50 earthquakes a year, but in 2010, 1,047 quakes shook the state. Why? In Lincoln County, where most of this past weekend's seismic incidents were... » read this article

For years journalists have warned of imminent banana extinction. "Get bananas while you still can," wrote New Scientist over five years ago. "The world's most popular fruit ... is in deep trouble," it went on to say, adding that the banana would probably be out of supermarkets by 2013, and... » read this article

A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales to the Future for Food Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC - 3rd May 2011 President de Gioia, Ladies and Gentlemen. Having such fond memories of my last visit, it is a great joy to be invited back to Georgetown to speak at... » read this article

(Reuters) - Canada will try to sell more of its energy products to Asia after Washington delayed a decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline project, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "This does underscore the necessity of Canada making sure that we are able to access... » read this article

A proposed 20k gas wells now threaten the Delaware River via regulations to be voted on November 21, 2011 by the Delaware River Basin Commission. We must protect this important watershed from pollution created by toxic gas drilling. The Delaware River Basin, an intergovernmental body, is about to move forward... » read this article

WASHINGTON - A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly. The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by... » read this article

October 2011 Introduction How do you begin to introduce the best 35 years of your life? All I know is that since early 1976, my life has been completely entangled with tigers. And it has been fantastic. Sheer magic! It was in 1961 that I saw my first tigers at... » read this article

Time Lapse videos by Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sørgjerd Editor's note: The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are seen when the solar wind stream hits Earth's magnetic field, sparking bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sørgjerd spent one week around Kirkenes and the Norway-Russia border, in... » read this article

Editor's Note: We are grateful to GRAIN for their publication of this well-researched, exemplary analysis and report on the linkage between food and climate change. It tells us how global emissions, land-use, deforestation, agriculture, food processing, transport, packaging and retail sales and food waste are all inter-related. It also gives... » read this article

September 26, 2011 - More than 200 people risked arrest on Parliament Hill in the largest climate-related civil disobedience action in Canadian history. The rally and the civil disobedience remained peaceful through the day-long event on the Hill. The main message of the action was to urge Prime Minister Harper... » read this article

BRUSSELS — Much of the appeal of generating energy from plants was that they emit only as much carbon when burned in cars and power plants as they absorb while growing. Lately, that appeal seems to be going up in smoke. It turns out that the emissions from growing and... » read this article

"Critics say the existing Keystone pipeline, completed last year, has already spilled 21,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, so extending it would cause other spills that would contaminate more groundwater. Also, they say that greenhouse gas emission from the development and use of tar sands are higher than... » read this article

Ed. note: Mankh's poem reminds me of an admonition from the I Ching: "Hold fast to the lessons learned from nature." - LMB Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small... » read this article

Editor's Note: Frances Moore Lappé's essay below kicks off our forum on the food movement. Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva, Eric Schlosser, and Michael Pollan have contributed replies. For years I’ve been asked, “Since you wrote Diet for a Small Planet in 1971, have things gotten better or worse?” Hoping I don’t... » read this article

South Sudan: Another Kitchen-Garden? Its was expected; nevertheless, the announcement that agricultural development will be among the top cooperation priorities between Israel and South Sudan has raised fresh, deep fears in Cairo and Khartoum that intensive farming techniques and dams construction will end up depriving Sudan and Egypt from a... » read this article

Introduction: This is a non-commercial attempt to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless 'consumers' are combining to destroy life on earth. It is dedicated to all who died fighting for the planet and those whose lives are on the line today. The cut was put together... » read this article