Friday, August 21, 2026

Tag: global summit

Oceans in peril as governments stall on promises ahead of UN...

With coral bleaching, illegal fishing, and fossil fuel expansion threatening marine ecosystems, global leaders gather in France amid mounting criticism over broken pledges and underfunded protections.

Climate change is a security threat the government keeps ignoring. We’ll...

Unlike traditional national security threats, climate threats have no respect for national or sector borders and cannot be solved with missiles.

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Elon Musk’s billionaire welfare: How the world’s richest man built his empire on government...

An extensive Washington Post investigation has revealed a very different reality—one where Musk’s business empire has been deeply dependent on taxpayer money.
The west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Noclip (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!
The Food and Drug Administration sign at the agency's White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. Photo: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Republican chair of the Senate health panel says he has strong concerns about Trump’s...

Heidi Overton stood beside Trump at the signing of an order cutting the shots recommended for all children to 11, and she would need to clear a committee where Republicans hold a single seat
The dam at Carraizo Lake in Trujillo Alto, one of the reservoirs supplying drinking water to the San Juan area. Photo: Mtmelendez / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before...

Drought and a ruptured pipeline have forced Puerto Rico into revolving water shut-offs. For many people, the disruption started years earlier, as did loss of faith in the utility.
An Amazon Prime delivery van parked on a residential street in Queens, New York. Photo: Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Teamsters accuse Amazon and 13 subcontractors of skipping New York’s layoff notice law

The union puts the unpaid back wages at up to $11 million as a City Council bill to make Amazon hire its drivers directly reaches 34 sponsors