Thursday, April 25, 2024

Every Oklahoma County under state of emergency as historically wet spring continues

"We still have water still rising in the east. We are not out of the woods yet."

New poll shows widespread bipartisan interest in electric cars

This strong majority carried across all demographic groups, with seven out of every 10 self-identified Republican voters viewing electric vehicles positively.

Will climate change cause humans to go extinct?

Humanity can still live in a world with climate change – it’s just going to be more work, and many lives and livelihoods are likely to be threatened.
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Noam Chomsky: The Green New Deal is exactly the right idea

"The basic idea is, I think, completely defensible – in fact, essential."

Taking farmers for a ride

Trump’s trade disruptions are inflicting real pain, but they’re also exposing the frailty of an agriculture economy built for big business.

Otter cafés and ‘cute pets craze’ fuel illegal trafficking in Japan and Indonesia

A new documentary film has been released that shines a spotlight on the illegal trade in the Asian small-clawed otter, a species listed as vulnerable and in decline by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Malaysia to return 3,300 tons of plastic waste illegally imported from countries including the...

"Malaysia will not be a dumping ground to the world ... we will fight back."
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Green Party wins record support in EU elections as youth-led climate strikes grow

The next president of the European Commission will likely be Bas Eickhout of the Dutch Green Party.

Fake news about energy, clean and dirty

I used to listen to Freakonomics, an interesting podcast, until it called nuclear energy clean and nonpolluting. I haven’t listened to any...

Big Pharma emits more greenhouse gases than the automotive industry

Healing people is no justification for killing the planet.