Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 8
Humans, fish and other animals are consuming microfibers in our food and water, Trump's pick for energy innovation is invested in Big Oil, and Susan Collins' challenger raises millions after vote for Kavanaugh.
Climate crisis and big agriculture threaten insects worldwide
A new study found that the combination of habitat loss caused by big agriculture and climate change are having a drastic impact on global insect populations.
Chase says it’s fighting climate change. So why is it financing the fossil fuel...
“To be blunt, they’re full of it.”
‘Horific’: Two-thirds of Great Barrier Reef damaged in ‘unprecedented’ bleaching
Combating global warming is really the only way to help protect the rest of this coral.
Climate deniers in congress received over $80 million in dirty money
142 representatives and 38 senators have received a total of $82,882,725 from the coal, oil and gas industries.
Veterans are joining forces with Standing Rock Protestors in North Dakota
Hundreds of veterans from around the country are preparing to support Standing Rock protestors between the 4th and 7th of December.
The Earth is Becoming a Plastic Planet
A new study says future geologists will be able to study our era based on the layer of plastic debris collecting worldwide.
State backers of anti-protest bills received campaign funding from oil and gas industry, report...
Legal experts have warned that critical infrastructure laws may well be unconstitutional.
On track for extinction: Can humanity survive?
Unless we include addressing this dysfunctional individual and collective psychological state in our strategy to avert human extinction, we will ultimately fail and extinction will indeed be our fate.
Supervolcano beneath Yellowstone could blow sooner than we thought – and wipe out life...
“It’s shocking how little time is required to take a volcanic system from being quiet and sitting there to the edge of an eruption.”