Friday, July 11, 2025

Tag: science

‘Drop fossil fuels,’ over 400 scientists tell PR firm handling UN...

“It’s an almost comical conflict of interest that Big Oil’s spin doctors are also in charge of communications for the UN climate talks.”

House committee investigates the role of PR firms in spreading climate...

There is a long history of PR firms creating and spreading climate disinformation in order to block climate policy and promote fossil fuel interests.

Greenland ice melt will raise global sea levels at least 10...

The scientists worry severe melting events, like the melting seen in 2012, could push eventual sea level rise closer to 30 inches.

With the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling, can Trump’s damage to the...

Trump’s appointments reveal the frightening far-reaching power of a corrupt president.

How the American Legislative Exchange Council turns disinformation into law

State lawmakers introduced nearly 2,900 bills based on ALEC templates from 2010 through 2018. More than 600 of them became law.

Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed for the same reasons

Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.

Let’s get to the heart of the matter with biolabs and...

How can we justify slaughtering cows to repair our hearts, when the consumption of cows is what weakens our hearts?

As the planet warms, let’s be clear: We are sacrificing lives...

Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.

Scientists grow plants in lunar soil for the first time

“Not only is it pleasing for us to have plants around us, especially as we venture to new destinations in space, but they could provide supplemental nutrition to our diets and enable future human exploration."

Unclear federal law allows logging, farming and mining to threaten America’s...

No version of “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS), part of the Clean Water Act, adequately protects the nation’s natural areas.

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A new far-right American party?

Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. What is his next target: democracy?

Melting glaciers could lead to more frequent and explosive volcanic eruptions: Study

The process—already seen in Iceland—makes volcanic eruptions more frequent and powerful, according to new research conducted in the Chilean Andes.

The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

Israeli minister proposes forced confinement of all Palestinians in Gaza amid global war crime...

Defense Minister Israel Katz unveils plan to imprison entire Gazan population in a guarded camp as human rights groups warn of ethnic cleansing.

First, a massive Medicaid attack, then come the midterms, then Republican annihilation

Is this country under attack by an authoritarian enemy?