Tag: earth
Wildfires aren’t just a threat to people—they’re killing off Earth’s biodiversity
Cataclysmic wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency due to climate change.
Is Earth close to ‘the great dying’?
The climate emergency is here. We can’t wait any longer for major and dramatic worldwide action.
Here’s how the climate crisis is impacting the water cycle
The current extreme fluctuation in precipitation across the globe is due in large part to climate change.
Google’s new timelapse shows 37 years of climate change anywhere on...
“Visual evidence can cut to the core of the debate in a way that words cannot and communicate complex issues to everyone.”
Life on the human planet
Focus on the essentials of life, and you’ll discover that one important element is “community.”
A planet of missing beauties
In truth, in this coronaviral moment of ours, our world is being transformed before our eyes into one of missing beauties.
Food at risk as third of plants face extinction
“Extinction is forever, which is a loss not only in terms of their evolution and persistence on the planet, but also a loss to the future of our food.”
Suicide watch on Planet Earth
Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision, however inchoate, to essentially commit suicide.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere at highest level since the...
"So, the modern climate change we see is big, really big; even by standards of Earth history."
Human beings are destroying life on Earth but deluding ourselves that...
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.