Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Tag: environment

North American bird populations are collapsing in places they once thrived:...

The analysis of almost 500 species of North American birds indicates that three out of four species are suffering declines across their ranges, with two in three shrinking significantly.

Millions of people depend on the Great Lakes’ water supply. Trump...

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Climate-change summer or nuclear winter?

The dangers on planet Earth in the age of Donald Trump.

Imagine you are a poor nation, trapped by debt and strangled...

Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.

5 ways cities can become more resilient to climate change: Study

While adaptation is critical to tackling climate change worldwide, “the real challenge is to deal with the impacts of climate change while simultaneously creating communities that are fairer, healthier, and better equipped to face any manner of future risks.”

Fossil fuels within electricity sector falls to all time low in...

The low was generated by an uptick in wind and solar power reaching a record high of 24.4 percent of generated electricity in the U.S. in March 2025.

$28 trillion in climate damage traced to 111 top polluters, study...

New research links fossil fuel giants to trillions in heat-driven economic losses, offering fresh momentum for climate liability lawsuits worldwide.

From wind farm bans to coal expansion: Trump’s fossil fuel agenda...

The burning of fossil fuels is the leading cause of climate change, but Trump has repeatedly called climate change a “hoax.” 

How lab-grown meat could bring an end to needless animal cruelty

Lab-grown meat is a sustainable and ethical alternative to traditional meat. It offers the same taste and texture while reducing animal suffering, environmental impact, and health risks.

Keystone XL oil spill shuts down pipeline and halts flow of...

An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil (147,000 gallons) spilled into an agricultural field in a rural area, about 60 miles southwest of Fargo.

POPULAR

A community hospital emergency entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds

Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

F is for Failure and Fascism

On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
A Navy fighter jet approaches an aircraft carrier. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain

Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam

The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo: NOAA, public domain

Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building

A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Farmworkers harvest sweet potatoes. Photo: USDA, public domain

Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.