Tag: climate crisis
Bernie Sanders calls for national ban on fracking
While scientific studies conclude fracking poses a threat to climate, air quality and water supply, Sanders said it is a major contributor to the world's climate crisis.
The US has more climate deniers than any other wealthy nation,...
A 23-country poll found that the U.S. led rich nations in the percentage of people who said that climate change was not caused by humans.
What losing 1 million species means for the planet – and...
That’s a bleak outlook, but many believe we can still turn things around.
New York passes world’s largest carbon reduction effort to combat climate...
New York passed the Climate Mobilization Act on Thursday, which is the world's "largest single carbon reduction effort that any city, anywhere, has ever put forward."
‘We need a climate debate:’ Youth petition pressures 2020 presidential democratic...
We want all the candidates to commit to participating in a debate or forum on environmental issues and policies so we can hear detailed ideas and plans.
Oil industry ponders getting ‘dragged into low-carbon future’ while claiming it...
As the DeSmog series Fracking for Plastics notes, Saetre is not alone in his ambition to either burn all the oil and gas or turn it into plastics.
Transformative climate action is possible—if polluters stay away
We need strong firewalls separating Big Oil and other polluters from climate policy making.
Flooding of Nebraska Air Force Base illustrates security risk posed by...
The flooding at Offutt base has prompted further criticisms of Trump's denialism.
The climate solution right under our feet
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. –Rumi
Parenting the climate-change generation
I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.