Yearly Archives: 2021
Great apes could lose 94% of African home due to climate crisis and other...
“As climate change forces the different types of vegetation to essentially shift uphill, it means that all animals that depend on particular habitat types will be forced to move uphill or become locally extinct.”
Twilight of the pandemic?
Bracing for a surge of Trumpism or…
IRS agent pleads guilty to identity theft and fraud
“TIGTA aggressively investigates Internal Revenue Service employees who violate the public’s trust.”
A people’s vaccine against a mutating virus and neoliberal rule
Humanity’s survival into the twenty-second century and all our hopes for a bright future depend on building new political and economic systems that will simply and genuinely “do what is best for all of us.”
The race to build solar power in the desert—and protect rare plants and animals
As development of large solar projects speeds up, researchers race against the clock to study the ecosystem implications.
The pitfalls of US-South Korean economic cooperation
Seoul and Washington should be working together to bring China on board for the kind of economic transformation that the planet so desperately needs.
The beginning of the end of democracy as we know it?
Will history record that Republican senators were more united in their opposition to democracy than Democratic senators are in their support for it?
A world at the edge
What planet will our children and grandchildren inherit?
Biden faces backlash over ‘shameful’ capitulation to GOP governors as they end unemployment lifelines
"Cutting off adequate supports to these workers to try to force them to take whatever job might be available is cruel."
Cleaning up methane pollution from Permian super emitters is ‘low hanging fruit’ for the...
Experts shine a spotlight on the worst offenders in the Permian basin. The technological fixes are obvious, they say, but state regulators are so far unwilling to act.