Tag: wildfires
This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change...
Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather.
5 things to know as wildfire season heats up
New research sheds light on how increasing wildfires are affecting ecosystems and communities.
Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping...
Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires, but science doesn’t support that.
‘Sadistic and depraved’: Trump rejects California request for federal disaster aid...
“That a sitting president—of any party—would deny their own citizens help during their time of greatest need, amid literal hellfire raining down on American cities, is beyond shameful.”
Retirement fund for many California firefighters battling wildfires puts money in...
By continuing to hold fossil fuel investments, the logic goes, CalPERS may be taking some of that money and using it to add fuel to the wildfires of tomorrow.
The climate flames come for us all
This month’s western megafires have burned millions of acres and upended countless lives. It’s a sign of things to come if we don’t start to listen and act.
As the west goes up in flames, Trump couldn’t care less
Like the coronavirus, the dire consequences of climate change – coupled with Trump’s utter malfeasance – offer unambiguous proof that he couldn’t care less about the public good.
‘A human tragedy’: Wildfires reveal California’s reliance on incarcerated firefighters
Lay bare the state’s reliance on prison labor to control its ever-growing wildfire season with an exploitative system many have called slave labor.
Wildfires can reduce biodiversity—can biodiversity be used to reduce wildfires?
A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent.
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Global leaders plead for peace in Ukraine at UN
Altogether, leaders from at least 50 countries spoke up for peace in Ukraine at the 2023 UN General Assembly.
Supreme Court could trigger hundreds of billions in corporate tax cuts ‘with the stroke...
"The Roberts Court could decide with the stroke of a pen to simultaneously forgive big business decades of tax dues."
Elected Democrats are conformist enablers of Biden for 2024
Alarm bells among pro-Biden pundits have finally begun to break the political sound barrier. So why is it quiet on Capitol Hill on the Democratic front?
Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.
Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again
Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.”