Tag Archives: Climate Change
Standing Rock: New Life to Old Struggles
The teeth marks of attack dogs and the pepper-sprayed faces of indigenous land defenders in North Dakota are fresh on the minds of dozens of dancers gathered on the stone […]
March on Trans-Pecos pipeline Friday
Support for the water protectors at Standing Rock fighting construction of Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline Project has begun to overflow to home-state struggles like the year-long contest between Big […]
This is how fast the Arctic is melting
On September 10th, the Arctic hit its annual summertime ice minimum. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, it was the second lowest summertime low since satellite record-keeping […]
IUCN: A living earth requires changes in human heart
As with the Peace & Dignity Journey that threaded its way through Texas a couple weeks back, the IUCN World Conservation Congress convened for the first 10 days of this […]
Lamar Smith: Guardian of Exxon’s Secrets
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) called this week’s hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in the hopes of rounding up support. The defender of all things […]
Showdown over oil pipeline becomes a national movement for Native Americans
CANNON BALL, N.D. — The simmering showdown here between the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the company building the Dakota Access crude-oil pipeline began as a legal battle. It has […]
Native runners bring unity message
It’s considered the fulfillment of a prophecy dating back 500 years: the reuniting of indigenous communities from the north and the south, peoples fractured by the forces of colonization. The […]
Lone Star Green: Global warming driving ‘neglected’ tropical diseases our way
The deadliest creatures on the planet don’t consume their prey outright. They sip them. These stealthy meals are hardly felt at all—until the itch sets in. Then you know: Mosquito. […]
Climate change driving tropical diseases
West Nile. Dengue. Chikungunya. In recent years, this trio of potentially deadly mosquito-borne viruses carved out a definite niche in the growing catalogue of American anxieties. It’s no wonder. The […]
How Climate Change Triggers Earthquakes
One year ago, Nepal was rocked by a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake. In conjunction with a major aftershock one month later, the April 25 disaster claimed around 9,000 lives, injured tens […]
Warning Of Americas Refugee Crises
In her native Honduras, she didn’t seem a likely target for the local drug gangs. But the former cafeteria worker was marked nonetheless. Men in masks attacked her in the […]
Will Pope Francis inspire climate activism among Texas Catholics?
Thirty-something Yasmina M. Parra Codina claims affiliation with several religious traditions. She’s a member of an Aztec dance troupe committed to maintaining a connection with indigenous traditions of pre-colonial Mexico. […]
Agenda 21: a conspiracy theory puts sustainability in the crosshairs
Could right-wing attacks on a non-binding UN sustainability resolution put sustainable business at risk in some states? Green space, clean energy, increased urban density…and global dictatorship. It’s hard to see […]
Beyond Doomsday
How environmental activism can eradicate the power of bad news Greg Harman Never before has the doomsday prophet been so closely in line with mainstream science. Every major environmental messenger […]
On the morality of extinction
Why the climate movement needs a crash course in philosophy Greg Harman The environmental community has long illustrated the seriousness of climate change with intimidating facts and figures. The now-infamous […]
Your brain on climate change: why the apathy?
Voter behavior has long held mysteries for both politicians and psychologists. Why do poor and working-class voters across the US South, for instance, still line up to support conservative candidates […]
The Great Climate Change Migration Has Already Begun
The island paradise is under attack. Thanks to destabilizing forces of climate change – rising sea levels and strengthening storms, particularly – some of Earth’s most picturesque locations are being […]
Climate Change: America’s Most Divisive Issue?
In US politics, global warming has grown more divisive than abortion, gun control, or the death penalty. Children in the US are traumatized by a school shooting roughly every week. […]
So Delicious turns to Twitter for ‘the world’s shortest grant application’
The non-dairy products company is giving out grants for ideas to improve the planet – and the application is just a tweet [View the story “So Delicious’ micro-grants campaign showcases […]
Election 2014: Climate change versus the oil boom
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Work boots towered above Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott as he moved down rows of shelving at Justin Boots’ distribution center in Fort Worth. The campaign ad promised […]
Pacific Climate Refugees Banking on Cocoa
The few small schoolhouses on the South Pacific islands of the Carteret atoll close at noon. Rising seas and increasingly violent storm surges have swept away most of the gardenable […]
Is the Texas State Climatologist doing his job?
“Severe weather not due to climate change,” ran the comforting headline in a recent San Antonio Express-News interview with Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon. When asked in the opening question about the […]
Companies Embrace Rainwater Harvesting Even As U.S. States Go Slow
Texas approved funding for a $50bn water plan, but left out a tool that has been growing in popularity among corporations (First published by Guardian Sustainable Business.) Texas voters last night […]
SXSW ECO: ‘Climate Wise Women’ Hold Key To A Just Climate Movement
Prior to 2007, life in Constance Okollet’s small Ugandan village was tranquil. It was, as she told a gathering at SXSW ECO in Austin on Tuesday, an “easy” life. “We […]
Population Aplomb: Real Ecological Disaster Is In Oprah’s Purse
Carolyn Lochhead opens her recent sprawling indictment of human population growth as the driver of global environmental destabilization with a raft of Texas-specific statistics. Strung together with hardly a verb […]
Lone Star Green: Abbott’s Willful Climate Ignorance Approaches The Criminal
There comes a point that ignorance of the science supporting human-caused climate change becomes so willful that it enters the territory of the criminal – particularly for those with a […]
Conservation and Desalination: An Alternative Prescription For Texas Water Management
The nation needs $384.2 billion dollars in water infrastructure and development to meet its needs for clean drinking water, according to a recent EPA report to Congress. The figure reflects the […]
San Antonio Trailing In National ‘Clean Tech Leadership’ Rankings
San Antonio (and Houston, and Dallas, and Austin) have made important strides in building increasingly sustainable cities rich in low-polluting clean-tech technologies and developing carbon-reduction strategies. San Antonio’s CPS Energy […]
Beyond Climate: Anthropocene Demands Action on Spiking Global Inequalities
Beware of plutocrats speaking of Spaceship Earth — Eddie Yuen LAWRENCE, Kansas — The “great acceleration” of our global environmental crisis — one so often condensed into the language of […]
Bat Attack! Why Saving Humanity Means Saving Mexican Free-Tailed Bats
“By [2050], it is extremely likely that Earth’s life-support systems, critical for human prosperity and existence, will be irretrievably damaged by the magnitude, global extent, and combination of these human-caused […]
Today’s Day of Prayer Demands Sermons on Climate Science
Every piece of this is man’s bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say […]
Texas Greyhound Failing Bicyclists: My Open Letter
To improve the air quality of our cities and fight climate change at home, we could use some help from the folks at Greyhound. Despite policies that allow for the […]
Climate Activist Takes Valero’s Dirty Record Onto the Green at Charity Golf Event
I’ve been known to tap out some disgusted words about major SA employer, Valero Energy. There was a time the petrochemical company was buying (and begging) its way into the biodiesel […]
Personal Update: Reorienting
I left my position as editor of the San Antonio Current at the end of last year. My reasoning for the move was manifold, but chiefly hinged on my inability […]
‘Clean’ Coal Sticks Its Snout Under San Antonio’s Tent
In the slow-motion planetary train wreck that is fossil-fuel-derived climate disruption — whether you call it global warming, global ‘weirding,’ or a worldwide conspiracy of the labcoat class — no […]
from mérida, with (wild) hopes
Gathered weeks ahead of the looming climate conference in Copenhagen, delegates of the 9th World Wilderness Congress emphasized the ability of wilderness to help regulate Earth systems slipping so quickly out of balance.
chicago march & mountain boom
As my story on energy, climate, and misery winds its way to the printers this week, I am stung by how many things keep getting worse. The pace of carbon dioxide emissions increasing over last decade’s; scientists slack-jawed at the potential carbon-fueled demise of our oceans, and the son-of-a-Bush that just won’t quit his apparent pact to run the living earth into the ground for the sake of profits.
bio defense late in game
I’ve been supremely critical of the paper’s smalltown chamber of commerce functioning on this issue. Consider their coverage and you can’t help but conclude, the editorial content has been spun – if not to sell the lab to SA – at least to keep a lid on the criticism.
dear john, dos
There are already enough people arguing about global warming policy. It wouldn’t help for the State Climatologist to step into the fray. He’s too valuable a researcher. Apparently.
