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What are the top environmental books? Just in time for slackers who haven’t finished their holiday shopping, Gristmill columnist Peter Madden of Forum for the Future has surveyed his colleagues and other smart green Brits to come up with a list of the most important environmental books. Classics Silent Spring and Small Is Beautiful made […]

Summer Arctic ice could nearly disappear by mid-century, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Santa’s Gonna Be Pissed Mileage in Mirror Is Smaller Than It Appears Unusual Weather We’re Having, Ain’t It? We’ll Be In the Fallout Shelter Once More Unto the REACH Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Fill ‘er Up The Barenaked Truth […]

Inuit All Along

Inuit climate petition against U.S. is rejected Is climate change a human-rights issue? The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decided to dodge the question. Arctic Inuit submitted a petition to the commission a year ago, accusing the U.S. government of violating Native peoples’ rights to their traditional ways of life by declining to regulate greenhouse-gas […]

The Great White Hopeless

Chinese white dolphin is likely extinct The baiji, a white dolphin found only in China’s Yangtze River, appears to have gone extinct. Lipotes vexillifer has been swimming China’s longest river for some 20 million years, but in the end it was no match for China’s surging economy. In the last few decades, the Yangtze’s shallows […]