Sunday, November 1, 2026

Tag: environment

COP26: Climate pledges don’t match up with policies—or consumer behavior

The Glasgow Climate Pact kicks the climate can down the road.

Should humans try to modify the amount of sunlight the Earth...

Managing solar radiation through technology is possible, but there are ethical and political concerns.

COP26: Will humanity’s ‘last and best chance’ to save earth’s climate...

here is a chance we can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, but world leaders must hold businesses accountable and listen to Indigenous communities.

Plastic pollution in waterways likely to more than double by 2030,...

"This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency to act, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans from source to sea."

Smoke from wildfires in the West harms more people in the...

The research underlines the widespread harms caused by wildfires, which are made worse by human-caused climate change, despite their localized acute destruction.

Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere,...

We highlight just how widespread microplastic pollution is and the potential it has to influence climate on a global scale.

What it’s like to watch a harpooned whale die right before...

Author Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.

To find out if ExxonMobil really supports a carbon tax, just...

Despite claiming to endorse a carbon tax, ExxonMobil has funneled millions of dollars to lawmakers who oppose the idea.

Seven in ten major UK pension funds yet to make ‘robust’...

They are calling on the government to “catalyze” change by setting mandatory science-based net zero targets.

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The power of Latinas’ Trump regret could swing this election

While Latinas were less likely to back Trump, their strides to the right fueled his reelection. Their regret could now propel Democrats.

We are living through a paradigm shift in our understanding of human evolution

An interview with Professor Chris Stringer, one of the leading experts on human evolution.
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In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season

“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
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ICE lists 36 detainee deaths in fiscal 2026, most since 2018

The agency's own page shows 29 deaths by mid-April and seven more through Aug. 23; DHS has said the size of the detained population explains the rise.
The U.S. Capitol building with its dome in Washington.

515 donors gave $4.2 billion to 2026 super PACs, Public Citizen finds

Elon Musk alone gave $445 million, about 10% of the total, according to the group's analysis of FEC data through late October.