Sunday, April 28, 2024

Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it’s more widespread than people realize

Drinking water should be assumed to be chemically unsafe until proven otherwise.

Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fueled plastics production at a record rate—new research

Around the world, around the clock, the plastics we use every day are produced at facilities on an almost incomprehensible scale that some suggest we now live in an era best labelled the plasticene.

House votes for Israel aid linked to controversial IRS and tax cut measures

In a contentious decision, the House approves $14 billion in aid to Israel, offset by cuts to the IRS budget, despite predictions of increased deficit and a veto from President Biden.

Conservationists sound alarm on plummeting giraffe numbers

This is just the beginning of a giraffe recovery.

The other America

The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) U.S.A...

Plastic pollution: Could we have solved the problem nearly 50 years ago?

What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?

What activists who fought the AIDS crisis can teach us about organizing during a...

“The biggest lesson that I learned from ACT UP is that a small group of people — extremely focused on analysis and practical solutions to the problem — can change the world”

Supreme Court weighs voting rights in a pivotal Arizona case

The case considers two Arizona laws that place limits on how and when Arizonans can vote.

Trees Cut as Maple Syrup Farmers Lose Eminent Domain Battle Over Constitution Pipeline

The Constitution Pipeline company arrived on the property with assault rifle-bearing federal marshals. They cut down the trees.