Yearly Archives: 2021
Nearly half a billion people at risk from sea level rise by 2100
“There’s a lot of scientists looking at long-term scenarios. But it’s happening now in parts of the world.”
Yes, home care is infrastructure—don’t let them play word games with people’s lives
Infrastructure, like charity, begins at home.
Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay...
“Big oil was engaged in exactly the same type of behavior that the tobacco companies engaged in and were found liable for fraud on a massive scale.”
Why is Biden’s foreign policy so…conventional?
America is back--to the same old, same old.
Indigenous-led action outside White House urges Biden to ‘protect people, not polluters’
Protesters are calling on the president and Congress to "prioritize climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous rights, housing justice, and transit justice in the infrastructure discussions."
An all-American horror story
Three-quarters of a century of nuclear follies — and that's just where to begin...
The surfside condo collapse and its environmental warning signals
“I don’t think it’s going to be any one factor. I think it’s going to be a cumulative effect of many different things.”
Life under the heat dome
Climate change came for Portland, showing us that the worst is already here — and we can’t afford to ignore it any longer.
Baby you’re a (super) rich man!
Millionaires, Mega Millionaires and even a few Billionaires run our corporations, our media and of course our politics.
As republicans stall election reform in the US Senate, democracy comes under greater strain
Both parties are vying to change who votes and how ballots are cast.