Thursday, October 1, 2026

Tag: climate change

6 ways citizens across the U.S. are using science to build...

By collecting climate change data, monitoring air quality, and reverse-engineering insulin, locals are creating a more just and equitable society.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy pushes natural gas as climate solution at...

Senator Cassidy assures his consituents there will be oversight, but how can he when he is sorely out of touch?

Must watch: Bernie Sanders and Bill Nye discuss climate change

“Instead of accepting that the climate is changing, deniers are denying the evidence and dismissing the authorities.”

Germany bans meat at all official functions to combat climate change

Because animal agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, Germany’s Federal Minister for the Environment recently banned meat from being served at official functions.

The student-built website that keeps government climate data safe

Since Trump’s election, scientists have been scrambling to save climate change data sets. And one Michigan graduate student thought the more copies, the better.

These kids will see Trump in court

Twenty-one kids and climate scientist James Hansen were suing the Obama administration to take more aggressive action on climate. Now, the climate-change-denying 45th president has inherited the case.

3 reasons Trump’s EPA pick can’t be trusted with climate science

This is why the man chosen to lead this agency needs to manage science responsibly so it can do its job.

Trump names industry lobbyist and climate science denier Mike Catanzaro as...

“This is likely to be the most influential domestic energy policy position within the White House [and] will comfort industry and conservatives who view him as a champion for free-market energy and environment policy.”

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New study finds CT scans to account for 5 percent of cancer diagnoses

While some experts caution against CT scans, many believe the modeling used in this study left much uncertainty.
White cheddar cheese. File photo, not the recalled product. Photo: Jon Sullivan (public domain)

Raw milk cheese recalled after E. coli outbreak sickens 13 people in nine states

Eight people were hospitalized and three developed a serious kidney complication, and more than half of those sick are age 5 or younger, the CDC says.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: Noclip, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The President from Hell (and High Water)

Tom Engelhardt on what a Democratic sweep in November would and would not change, and a $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel.
Detention center fencing. Photo: David Stanley / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Colorado sues to stop private immigration detention center in Hudson

The state says the federal government never studied what a 1,200-bed facility would do to a town of about 1,600, its water supply or local wildlife.
The U.S. Capitol at night. Photo: Diliff (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

White House cancels $810 million in congressional spending days before fiscal year ends

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, called the pocket rescission unlawful, and the House is out of session until after the November election.