Saturday, August 15, 2026

Tag: climate change

Stark contrast between Harris and Trump in 2024 debate: Progressives urge...

Progressive organizers, labor leaders, and advocacy groups emphasized the clear choice between the two candidates.

How Summer of Heat on Wall Street is using disruption to...

This is the main focus of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience against financiers like Citigroup.

‘Colossal waste’: US leads way in public spending on false climate...

The U.S. leads the way in spending public money on so-called climate “solutions” that have been proven to “consistently fail, overspend, or under perform,” according to an analysis.

Rising temperatures, rising deaths: The urgent need for action as heat-related...

They identified 21,518 deaths during this period where heat was either the underlying or a contributing cause of death.

The DNC fiddles while the world burns

While election year politics dominates the news, the control of both major U.S. political parties by the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex makes the policies they agree on more dangerous than their disagreements.

4 billion people lack safe drinking water globally

A new study conducted by REACH, a global research program, found the estimated amount in 2020 more than double

Revealed: Shell Oil nonprofit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025

Shell USA Company Foundation sent $544,010 between 2013 and 2022 to organizations that broadly share an agenda, including severely limiting the Environmental Protection Agency.

Canada’s 2023 wildfires released nearly a decade’s worth of CO2 in...

As wildfires intensify due to climate change, Canada’s 2023 fire season serves as a warning of the catastrophic environmental and health impacts that lie ahead if global emissions are not curbed.

Hummingbird migration set to begin as the pollinator continues to experience...

More than 191 hummingbird species from across the Americas are experiencing declining population trends.

How to decolonize our battle against climate change

Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.”

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The mouth of Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park. Photo: Ralf Kiepert / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park

Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson at the White House. Photo: The White House, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House...

Pearson campaigned against Elon Musk's Colossus data centers in Memphis, and faces Republican state Senator Brent Taylor in November.
The United States Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, where the case against 15 protest defendants is pending. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches

Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.