"I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time." from Orion.

The Earth Observatory’s mission is to share with the public the images, stories, and discoveries about climate and the environment that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and climate models.

"It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it." by Al Gore in NYT.

"Almost half of Americans in the Yale Project on Climate Change's new study on global warming said strong action needs to be taken. But the amount who think it's all a hoax has doubled."

"The dominant response, in short, is a dogged belief that what we call the American Way of Life will prove somehow indestructible. We will keep on consuming, spending, wasting, and driving, as before, at any cost to anything and everybody but ourselves." by Wendell Berry in Harper's Magazine.

350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand. Our mission is to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis—to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for our planet.

As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force.

the environmental cost of producing beef. from scientific american.

8:30PM Saturday 28 March 2009.

if we want to avoid a catastrophic collision with ecological reality.

the stability of nature and our psychic well-being.

from scientific american.

arguments and counter-arguments. from bbc news.