Tag: fires
Survivors of deadly LA wildfires demand accountability for Big Oil’s role...
Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.
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.
Australian telecommunications company pays phone bills for volunteer firefighters
"We want to do this to show our thanks to firefighters for their efforts in helping keep communities safe."
Record number of fires burning in Amazon rainforest
There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the...
‘Unprecedented’ heat wave fueling Arctic fires made more than twice as...
"But equally there is no doubt that we can and should constrain the increasing likelihood of all kinds of extreme weather events by restricting greenhouse gas emissions as sharply as possible."
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.