IPCC report released, more travel warnings, Kashmir reels, Trump fumes, ICE raids, McConnell blocked

By Robert A. Vella The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its previously leaked report on food production today.  It Continue reading →

A Courtside View of Scott Pruitt’s Cozy Ties With a Billionaire Coal Baron

LEXINGTON, Ky. — It was one of the biggest games of the University of Kentucky basketball season, and Scott Pruitt Continue reading →

Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns

More than 5 billion people could suffer water shortages by 2050 due to climate change, increased demand and polluted supplies, Continue reading →

EPA eases path for new chemicals, raising health fears

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is shifting course under the Trump administration on how it assesses new chemicals for Continue reading →

How did half of the great Florida coral reef system disappear?

Over 20 years the trend of decline and loss has been inexorable. In 2001, and again in 2005, even warmer Continue reading →

Earth faces “biological annihilation” as species decline, scientists warn

Over the last half-billion years, scientists say there have been five mass extinction events on Earth in which a wide Continue reading →

‘The Sixth Extinction’ now afflicting our oceans is an unfolding story told by two previous mass extinctions

By Robert A. Vella Author Elizabeth Kolbert coined the phrase “The Sixth Extinction” in 2014 with her shocking nonfiction book Continue reading →

California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves

… California’s natural resources agency, with the oversight and consent of the federal government, also runs a shadow program that Continue reading →