Friday, August 14, 2026

Tag: global warming

Climate crisis likely to cause food shortages before we reach 1.5°C...

This is due to the effects of the climate crisis, along with inadequate farming practices and water shortages, posing threats to agriculture worldwide.

Walking in an Oven World

It’s a scary world to walk through when you realize that the enemy is us.

Me First

America 19th, the planet last.

‘Era of global boiling’ has arrived, UN chief says

“The consequences are clear and they are tragic: children swept away by monsoon rains; families running from the flames; workers collapsing in scorching heat.”

Florida waters reach hot tub temperatures of 101.19 degrees Fahrenheit

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this time of year normal south Florida water temperatures should be from 73 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit.

We’re having a violent meltdown

From the pole to the equator, the specter of violence looms.

WMO warns greenhouse gases and El Niño to push global temps...

"...WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5°C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency.”

Ocean warming study so distressing, some scientists didn’t even want to...

Researchers examining the ocean off the east coast of North America found that the water's surface was 13.8°C, or 14.8°F, hotter than the average temperature between 1981 and 2011.

World’s glaciers at serious risk from climate crisis

“Significant loss of glaciers means that we are not only witnessing a change in landscape or a loss of natural resources, it means that we are actively complicit in robbing the future from our children.”

Paying for an overheating Earth

At a time when the major fossil-fuel companies are still raking in staggering profits off their oil and natural gas supplies, as that line straight out of my childhood went: There oughta be a law.

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...

Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Mexicanization of the United States

The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.

Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations

A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.

The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions

The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.