Global Environmental Issues

CHANGE:   A Matador contributor takes a toxic tour of the Amazon.  More »

CHANGE:   It's simple, touchy-feely, and personal. But critics say Chevron's latest ad campaign is just the latest example of corporate greenwashing.   More »

CHANGE:   Can't you get your golf on elsewhere?   More »

CHANGE:   The SSPS project, which Japan hopes to become fully realized as soon as 2030, will put into orbit giant solar panels just outside Earth's atmosphere to gather the sun's energy and beam it down to us in the form of lasers or microwaves.   More »

CHANGE:   The National Research Council reminds us that we need to make changes, pronto.  More »

CHANGE:   Neha Puntambekar shares all you need to know about having an environmentally conscious Christmas.   More »

CHANGE:   I've spent half of my life in the country & half in the city. Guess which place is more sustainable?  More »

CHANGE:   Climate change experts predict which cities are most vulnerable if our seas continue to rise.   More »

CHANGE:   Water: It's the new carbon.   More »

CHANGE:   Big oil has big profit losses. But people in the communities where oil is extracted have long wondered where *their* profits are.   More »

CHANGE:   Tim DeChristopher's answer will take him all the way to court.   More »

CHANGE:   That rumor about a settlement in Wiwa v. Shell wasn't unfounded. Here's the latest.   More »

CHANGE:   Celebrities climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the one billion people around the world without safe drinking water.  More »

CHANGE:   Climate change and rising sea levels are creating a new group of refugees.  More »

CHANGE:   Dust storms, extinctions, widespread pollution, out of control carbon emissions, unmitigated energy useage. . .learn what's really going on in China.   More »

CHANGE:   Foodies, rejoice! The First Family IS planting an organic garden!  More »

CHANGE:   And they're making it easy for you.   More »

CHANGE:   Governments around the world are banning plastic bags.  More »

CHANGE:   The average person in the US receives 11 pieces of junk mail per week. How many trees would be saved, and how much carbon could be offset were this junk mail to be eliminated?   More »

CHANGE:   I may not have Jessica Biel's body, but even I know Mt. Kilimanjaro is no cake walk.   More »

CHANGE:   Continuing to bury our refuse is not a sustainable option. We must scale back our production of waste.  More »

CHANGE:   Matador's editors share the effects of climate change they've observed on their travels.   More »

CHANGE:   A school bus converted to run on veggie oil and driven to Burning Man now on a nationwide educational tour.  More »

CHANGE:   The world's rapidly-shrinking glaciers are the most stunning evidence, visually and scientifically, of global climate change.  More »

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CHANGE:   Dirty deeds done dirt cheap turn a tidy profit for America's third largest company.   More »

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CHANGE:   That's the take-away question in the latest "twitstorm."  More »

CHANGE:   A photo report of the protest outside Chevron's Annual Shareholder Meeting in San Ramon, California.   More »

CHANGE:   "In the end, I realized this was the tiny tip of the iceberg. There's no one place I can go to capture it all."  More »

CHANGE:   One topic Obama and McCain won’t be wrangling over: so-called “clean” coal. But how clean is it, really?  More »

CHANGE:   Matador member Ryan Van Lenning happened to be on the front line of the Chevron protest & shares this first person dispatch.   More »