Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Trump nominates climate change denier to head NASA

Bridenstine would be “devastating for the space program.”

US Forest Service plan to plant more than a billion trees limited by lack...

Not only that, but U.S. tree nurseries don’t have enough variety of species necessary to meet the goal.

Viruses can remain infectious on microplastics for three days

“It doesn’t take many virus particles to make you sick.”

Failed action on the climate crisis makes resistance imperative

It is this reality that is spurring people around the world to take action in the growing global climate emergency movement.

Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal plan

Yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his version of a Green New Deal proposal which seems to be the most aggressive plan compared...

The final frontiers? A call to protect the biodiversity on the borders

Trump’s border wall is not alone. Similar structures and development on the lands between nations threaten biodiversity around the globe.

Records break and fires rage as U.S. West sees third heat wave this summer

“People aren’t able to cool off; it's a lot harder to get relief.”

One in three directors at Africa’s biggest bank have ties to the coal industry

Over 80 percent of directors had a past or current tie to polluting industries, either as a current or former adviser or employee.

Climate deniers backed violence and spread pro-insurrection messages before, during, and after January 6

As the mass radicalization wave surged, some individual opponents of climate action may have been swept along by its broad rightward push, propelling them closer to endorsing political violence.

‘Act now. Our lives are in your hands’: Demanding climate action, Extinction Rebellion shuts...

"We've all read the science, we know the story, the whole phase of denial is over, and if it takes civil disobedience to make a difference, then so be it."