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Latin America Battling Wildfires, Floods, Droughts

AP | By CESAR GARCIA and IAN JAMES | Posted 01.06.2012 | World

CHIA, Colombia -- From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently by wildfires, floods and droughts. For many witnessing t...

Lynne Peeples

Environment At Risk From Anticipated Farm Bill Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.13.2011 | Green

On October 17, a massive dust storm hit Lubbock, Texas, adding to already significant agricultural and environmental devastation across the South this...

Drought or Deluge: Different Threats, Same Problems

Peter Hanlon | Posted 12.04.2011 | Green

Peter Hanlon

Whether it's the flooded Northeast or drought-stricken Texas, the threats couldn't be more different, but the problems are remarkably the same: Farms are devastated. Power plants shut down. Water supplies are threatened.

Meatless Monday: Fire and Rain

Ellen Kanner | Posted 11.19.2011 | Green

Ellen Kanner

The two farms are 2,000 miles apart, but both farmers use sustainable practices, and unlike Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, both believe in climate change.

GOP Response to the Flood

Jeff Danziger | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics

Jeff Danziger

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Earth Preaching

Reverend Billy | Posted 10.19.2011 | Green

Reverend Billy

Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture -- all wrapped into one big institution -- that is simple common sense!  When we...

Lynne Peeples

Climate Change Brings Water Woes To U.S. Cities, NRDC Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.26.2011 | Green

You might say that the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had good timing with their Tuesday release of a new report on water-related impacts of...

The Weather Becomes the News: An Interview With Earth Policy Institute Founder Lester Brown

Christal Smith | Posted 09.20.2011 | Green

Christal Smith

What does climate change have to do with preparing for upcoming disasters? A whole lot, it turns out.

Severe Flood Hits India

AP | Posted 09.16.2011 | World

GAUHATI, India -- Heavy monsoon rains have led the mighty Brahmaputra River to overflow its banks and submerge scores of villages in India's remote no...

After The Flood: Religious Recovery In The Face Of Disaster

Bishop Mark Narum | Posted 08.28.2011 | Religion

Bishop Mark Narum

If the Son of God can Lament, why not us, who are wondering where God is in the midst of all of this. Lament is an act of deep faith. Even as we question, rant or cry, it is God the Father who we are addressing.

China's Water Woes Revisited: The State of Play in 2011

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 08.14.2011 | World

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

In my conversations with Ken Pomeranz, one of the world's leading specialists in Chinese history, I have learned a lot about how complex a role issues relating to water have played in China's past and continue to play in China's present.

Residents Of Manitoba Preparing For Another Possible Dike Breach

Posted 08.10.2011 | Business

CBC -- People who live around the Hoop and Holler Bend in southern Manitoba are scrambling, wondering what to do if the province intentionally breache...

Treme 14: Renewed, Attacked and Sazerac'd

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.15.2011 | Entertainment

Karen Dalton-Beninato

"Thousands of homes sacrificed to save New Orleans" is this week's headline, with a 1927 level Mississippi River placing Louisiana levees in the line ...

Saki Knafo

Cajun Country Prepares For The Mississippi Flood

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.13.2011 | Green

"They say the water is coming," Jim Delahoussaye wrote on his blog early this week. "They have exploded the levees in Missouri to save Cairo from drow...

New Orleans: Ground Zero in the Cultural War

Brian Ross | Posted 07.05.2011 | Politics

Brian Ross

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Ro...

Life in the Water

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Reverend Billy

A short clip of Rev's sermon from last Sunday's Earthalujah service. Join us this week live in NYC and online at Revbilly.com. We have a schizophren...

Too Much Content: A World of Exponential Information Growth

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Brett King

The level and rate of change that we are experiencing today is likely to accelerate over the next 50-100 years. How do we value 'things' when knowledge is pervasive?

Feds Lack Emergency Plans For Flooding

AP | CHUCK BARTELS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The U.S. Forest Service acknowledges in a new report that the agency had no warning plan in place the night 20 people died i...

$11-Million Monument to Benazir Bhutto: APPROVED

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Shirin Sadeghi

As flood waters ravage Pakistan's land and 20 million of its people, , yet another devastating blow has hit Pakistan: the government approved an $11-million statue of Benazir Bhutto. Yes, this is Pakistani taxpayer money.

We Need to Remember Our Multiplication Tables

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Carl Pope

We should worry, tremendously, about the impact of a disrupted climate and more extreme rainfall events. But we should worry just as much about the need to restore the natural biological dampers to the system.

Why the Media Wants Americans to Donate to Haiti But Not Pakistan

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Shirin Sadeghi

The American public does not know that Haiti is a nation that has long been been a thorn in the side of the American government while Pakistan is a nation which the U.S. already has great influence on.

Pakistan Flood: What's The Security Risk?

New York Review Of Books | Ahmed Rashid | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Though it has received only moderate attention in the western press, the torrential flooding of large swaths of Pakistan since late July may be the mo...

Pakistan Flood Victims Deserve Better

Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Doug Sarro

Pakistan is a moral test case for the world -- do we believe that all people forced out of their homes because of conflict or natural disaster have the same rights no matter where they are from, or don't we?

America's Broken Response to Pakistan

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Josh Mull

The so-called battle for hearts and minds in Pakistan is the war that America will lose because of our occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The F Word: Time to Declare Global War on Flooding

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Laura Flanders

The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster o...