Earlier this year, BP put millions of barrels of oil, billions of cubic feet of gas, and 1.5 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico. Of those dispersants, designed for use on the surface, 800,000 gallons were sprayed directly into the oil gusher on the dark ocean floor, potentially multiplying the damage while keeping it out of sight. Already people are dying, writes David Swanson.

After 30 years of a battle that has divided the Australian island, it seems there is finally some hope for those who want to see Tasmania’s ancient forests protected from rampant logging. But is it really more just a cynical PR move than any real attempt at corporate social responsibility? Lilia Letsch reports.

Are some US companies guilty of a new kind of crime against humanity that the world has yet to classify – namely the fossil fuels industry’s disinformation campaign on climate change? By Donald A Brown.

Action on climate change will demand taking on the most powerful economic force the world has ever seen: the fossil fuel industry, writes author and climate activist Bill McKibben.

One of the ironies of the current international situation is that, although some government leaders now talk of building a nuclear weapons-free world, there has been limited public mobilization around that goal — at least compared to the action-packed 1980s, writes Lawrence S. Wittner

We must put nature on the balance sheet, writes Pavan Sukhdev.