Tag: environment
Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the first person to understand climate change...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting.
First major U.S. insurance company to stop insuring and investing in...
It seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery exploding. How...
Fueled by climate change, Hurricane Dorian devastates the Bahamas in “unprecedented...
Hurricane Dorian is continuing to wreak havoc in the Bahamas, where massive storms and flooding have killed five people and left many...
On David Koch’s passing and the Koch network’s ongoing war on...
Billionaire libertarian activist and oil industry tycoon David Koch died on Friday, leaving a toxic legacy that includes helping birth the climate denial movement,...
Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal plan
Yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his version of a Green New Deal proposal which seems to be the most aggressive plan compared...
We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril
Kokia drynarioides is a small but significant flowering tree endemic to Hawaii’s dry forests. Native Hawaiians used its large, scarlet flowers to...
U.S. government reports: ‘It is raining plastic’
After analyzing rainwater samples collected from the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, the U.S. Interior Department recently released a study concluding that microscopic...
Documents shine new light on Koch brothers’ early efforts to abolish...
A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy (DOE) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the...
Earth’s hottest month lights a fire for progress
Well folks, we did it. July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded human history, with record-breaking temperatures in many parts of Europe, wildfires...
The green new deal must be global
June 2019 was the hottest June in recorded history. July was even hotter — in fact, it was the hottest month ever recorded...
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The American people will impeach the Republican Party and its members
Based on their record, what they say and what most of them refuse to do, the vow they made has become meaningless.
Here’s several reasons why Trump cannot take away birthright citizenship
Should a candidate for President that meets the “natural born” standard be declared unqualified because his parents were illegal?
Study confirms whale mortalities overwhelmingly caused by human activity
"Of all the causes identified, it is critical to emphasize that no adult or juvenile North Atlantic right whale deaths were a result of natural causes. Not one."
Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the first person to understand climate change — more than...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting.
Avalanche-level liar Trump learned art of deception from the pros: US corporations
For avalanche-level lying, deceiving, and misleading, mega-mimic Donald Trump need look no further than the history of the corporate advertising industry and...