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Environmental issues, concerns, and conflicts are constant throughout human history, which may come as a surprise because our emphasis in history has all too often been on war and politics, rather than environment, culture and development. Yet evidence of this Continue reading
Here s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science, according to Science News July 10, 2026. Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific Continue reading
Paul Ehrlich often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out. By Bill Kovarik The Conversation March 16, 2026 Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 13, Continue reading
By Rhett Ayers Butler Mongabay In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that yield information slowly. It also means Continue reading
By Robert Wyss The Conversation, CC, Oct. 21, 2025 It was a morning unlike anything St. Louis had ever seen. Automobile traffic crawled as drivers struggled to peer through murky air. Buses, streetcars and trains ran an hour behind schedule. Continue reading
Bill Moyers (June 5, 1934 – June 26, 2025), one of the world s leading journalists, died in New York recently. A White House press secretary under Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, a CBS correspondent and PBS program producer since the Continue reading
Excellent new article in Slate Magazine by Dan Kios: Four decades ago, a secret government team had a target—and a plan. It turned into one of the most sensationally botched crimes of the century.
. The urgent need to restore the Ocean is the focus of a major international conference taking place in Nice, France in June 2025. The Ocean is in deep crisis, the UN said. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, Continue reading
(This is a preliminary edit of the three hour long video from May 20. Many thanks to the participants.) Video of an informal online public symposium on the 100th anniversary of the Public Health Service conference regarding the danger of Continue reading