Tag: climate change
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change....
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
Tropical forests lost 40 football fields of tree cover per minute...
That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.
New study further confirms it: Fracking fuels global warming
Not only does fracking harm kids' brains, cause earthquakes, and poison water supplies, it also helps contribute to overall global warming.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Another oil spill, fracking fuels climate change, Mueller investigates Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and more.
The risky business of government-run pipelines
The project has always been about business – and this is something the Canadian government must quickly recognize if it’s going to create value for Canadians.
Samsung to go 100 percent renewable energy by 2020
Samsung's commitment is the first of its kind from an Asian electronic manufacturing company.
Antarctic ice melt has tripled in five years
"A three-fold increase now puts Antarctica in the frame as one of the largest contributors to sea-level rise."
An urgent message to Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Japan
An open letter from the United State of America.
17 governors renew climate pledges on anniversary of Trump’s Paris Accord...
The governors of sixteen states and Puerto Rico that make up the U.S. Climate Alliance recommitted their pledges to the Paris agreement and announced a new wave of initiatives to accelerate and scale up climate action.
Flip This Well: How fracking company CEOs get rich while losing...
Even when shale oil CEOs do fall, and wipe out billions in other people’s money, their falls seem to be cushioned with more cash.
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Ending the American Dream by 2029?
The future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls.
How MAGA changed the world in 2025, and what comes next
Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda.
‘Domestic terrorism’: Leaked DOJ memo targets ‘anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity’
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive.
The dark side of Trump’s moon
A new book sheds light on the "intellectual" underpinnings of the Trump revolution.
Trump plan to dismantle US weather research hub alarms scientists and state officials
A proposal by the Trump administration to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research has sparked warnings from scientists, university leaders, and Colorado officials who say the move could undermine public safety, economic stability, and decades of shared scientific infrastructure.