It’s a treacherous time. Russia is on the march. China is on the rise. Mass shootings are an American plague. And, above all, someone made a movie with a scary title. Rolling Stone has obtained an FBI alert issued earlier this month warning that the fictional film “How to Blow …
Read More »The Koch Empire Goes All Out to Sink Joe Biden's Agenda — and His Presidency, Too
With the fate of President Biden’s domestic agenda in the balance, an armada of right-wing dark-money groups aligned with the Koch political network is mobilizing to sink Biden’s $3.5-trillion Build Back Better plan and deal a devastating blow to his presidency. The Koch network is one of the most extensive …
Read More »Mayor of Canadian Town Destroyed by Wildfire Writes Heartbreaking Letter to Residents
Last Sunday, Mayor Jan Polderman’s town, a small village in British Columbia called Lytton, made international news when it became the hottest place in Canadian history. Then on Monday, his town broke that record. And on Tuesday, it did it again, reaching 121.3 degrees — hotter than Miami’s hottest day …
Read More »Keystone Pipeline Is Finally Dead. Good Riddance
In a victory for Native American communities, climate activists, environmentalists, farmers, ranchers, and all human beings who want a livable planet, the Keystone XL pipeline is officially dead. According to reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the Canadian firm TC Energy Corp and the provincial government of Alberta have officially …
Read More »Electricity Companies Urge Biden to Set Standard to Reduce Emissions 80 Percent by 2030
As President Biden prepares to announce a U.S. emissions pledge, a group of electricity companies sent him a letter urging the president to set clean energy standard (CES) goal of reducing the industry’s carbon emissions by 2030. The coalition of thirteen power companies, which includes PSEG, Exelon Corp. and Talen …
Read More »Trump's Climate Denial Is Helping to Put His Own Businesses Underwater
Tonight, President Trump officially kicks off his 2020 re-election campaign with a rally in Orlando. It’s sure to be a raucous event, with not a word – or not a serious word, anyway – about the biggest challenge of our time: climate change. Few places in America have more at …
Read More »Fox News Is Desperately Trying to Convince Us Climate Science Isn't Real
While sea level rise may be the most talked-about adverse effect of climate change, there is virtually no aspect of life on Earth that isn’t under threat from global temperature rise — including life on Earth itself. The United Nations recently released a summary of a report written by 400 …
Read More »See a Starving Polar Bear Hunt for Beluga Whales in Startling Clip
Some scientists fear a third of the polar bears in the world may be gone by 2030 due to climate change and how it will affect future sea conditions. To show how the species is struggling to survive as they search for food, National Geographic captured a moment where a …
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