Tag: climate change
Political and business leaders committed to fighting climate change meet at...
"We are not here just to speak but to be accountable. Here we will see what is working and what is not working. What we need is action."
What will climate change do to the US-Mexico border?
The U.S. national security apparatus is aware of the connection between climate change and migration.
Naomi Klein: A year after Hurricane Maria, there is nothing natural...
Last week, President Trump generated widespread criticism when he falsely claimed on Twitter that thousands of people did not die in the two storms, even as a Harvard study estimated the death toll may top 4,600.
Human-caused climate change severely exposes the US national parks
Our newly published results reveal that climate change has exposed the national parks to conditions hotter and drier than the country as a whole.
Trump lets fracking companies release more climate-warming methane
Environmental organizations condemned the Trump administration's latest environmental rollback and criticized Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for siding with oil and gas interests.
Warnings of ‘catastrophic and historic’ flooding as experts say worst of...
"For many (most?) places, the worst of Florence's flooding is still on the way. Still expecting record or near-record flooding across a large part of North Carolina in the days to come."
18 dead, more than 900 rescued as Florence floods the Carolinas
"The storm has never been more dangerous than it is right now."
4 groundbreaking announcements from the global climate Action Summit
"In the long term, this is an unstoppable train."
Climate change supercharges Hurricane Florence as 1.5 million evacuate in Carolinas...
People up and down the coast are preparing for extreme flooding and what the National Hurricane Center is calling a “life-threatening storm surge.”
Rise for Climate: Tens of thousands march in San Francisco calling...
The protest came just days before the start of the Global Climate Action Summit being organized by California Governor Jerry Brown.
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Despite media knocks, Maine’s Graham Platner qualifies as this year’s breakthrough Senate campaign star
Who knew a year ago that a scintillating Maine campaign could be a national spark plug to a new progressive movement?
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.
More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changes Federal...
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
Trump’s wind blockade collapses after states force major court retreat
A federal appeals court dismissal leaves intact a ruling that found the Trump administration’s freeze on wind approvals unlawful, preserving state clean-energy investments as new data shows renewable power growing despite political and legal headwinds.
Trump and GOP face new scrutiny over Social Security retirement age threat
Democratic senators are pressing the president to say whether he would veto benefit cuts, as the program’s 2032 funding deadline becomes a flashpoint in the fight over retirement security.