Tag: climate crisis
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
Will the world experience the global catastrophe that the oil companies predicted years before I was born?
‘This is an emergency’: Oxfam says rich nations’ $100 billion climate...
“Time is running out for rich nations to build trust and deliver on their unmet target.”
Ahead of COP26, top Biden appointees pushing natural gas are undermining...
The Biden administration’s commitment to natural gas, also known as fossil gas, isn’t a commitment to reaching net-zero by 2050, says a researcher at Global Witness; it’s a promise to the oil and gas industry that they’re still in control. As a major climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, approaches, the Biden administration must urgently change course on fossil gas.
Leaked docs reveal fossil fuel-soaked nations lobbying to sabotage climate action
“They are using every opportunity to protect their corporate interests and continue with business as usual while the planet burns.”
Don’t let youth climate activists like me burn out
To all the COP26 delegates and others with power over what happens at this conference: Please show us that you’ve heard us.
Despite climate crisis, politicians will double the production of energy from...
“Fossil-fuel-producing nations must recognize their role and responsibility in closing the production gap and steering us towards a safe climate future.”
We need immediate and drastic climate action
We must very rapidly stop the extraction and use of fossil fuels.
How to save the world (from a climate armageddon)
There’s only one way and this is it...
New WHO report demands urgent action on climate and health crises
“The same unsustainable choices that are killing our planet are killing people.”
“Code red” for climate means reducing US oil and gas production
Whatever long game the Biden administration hopes to play, the planet is telling us that we are going into the fourth quarter with no promise of overtime.
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Bernie Sanders speaks out: Criticizing Israeli policy is not antisemitism
Amid national debate over Gaza protests, Senator Bernie Sanders challenges the narrative equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, drawing on his personal history and widespread American discontent.
US intervenes as ICC mulls war crime warrants for Netanyahu
As the ICC prepares to potentially issue arrest warrants for high-ranking Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for war crimes, a closer look at the concerted efforts by the U.S. and Israel to prevent these legal actions.
American campuses erupt in protests over Gaza, drawing harsh police response and national outrage
As students across the U.S. demand university divestment and an end to military aid for Israel, aggressive crackdowns raise alarms about civil liberties.
Turning the tide: How global conservation efforts are curbing biodiversity loss
A decade-long scientific study reveals significant success in conservation actions worldwide, offering hope amidst the biodiversity crisis.
Eight drivers that springboard Trump’s nose-dive into humiliated loser
What makes even a lousy career criminal look bad? To be proved a blundering, hypocritical boob.