Did the Plastic Industry Rewrite California’s Textbooks?

The same city that has yet to ban ads of half-naked women pushing alcohol has just pulled the plug on an ad from climate change activists 350.org that calls Senator Scott Brown out on his vote to gut the Clean Air Act. The poster-size ads were crowd-funded, with the majority of funding coming…

No single issue haunts popular ecology and meteorology more than the specter of global warming. Documentaries, television specials, op-eds and magazine articles, there is a ceaseless stream of press and punditry from both sides, a flow as inexorable as water off a melting glacier. Many argue…

By Bruce Barcott, OnEarth Magazine

This is the cover story of the latest issue of OnEarth Magazine, graciously shared in advance with The Faster Times.

On a Saturday morning in late November in Kotzebue, Alaska, a village 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle, two Inupiat men nursed cups…

The Obama administration’s announcement yesterday that it hopes to make a six-year, $53 billion dollar investment in high-speed rail networks is bound to win big applause from green groups that have been less-than-impressed with the President lately. If enviros were the only folks…

News recently emerged from Korea concerning a fairly interesting new dinosaur. Called by the imaginative name of Koreanosaurus, it at first glance appears to be a very typical ornithopod–small head, long tail and legs, etc. But a few small anatomical details have revealed something rather…

Shale gas—natural gas reserves trapped under large rock formations—is the oil of the next century. As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins to study the impacts of the processes involved in shale gas drilling, and the debate over whether tighter regulation is needed heats up in…

Paul Watson doesn’t care what you think. The captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been putting himself between whales and harpoon ships for more than 30 years, preventing the killing of countless cetaceans. He’s been called a terrorist, a greater threat than Al-Qaeda, a…

A week after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, entertainer Rush Limbaugh suggested that environmentalists had caused the disaster in order to pass cap-and-trade legislation that wouldn’t include new offshore drilling or loan guarantees for the nuclear industry. A massive …