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Winter Weather Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming

Winter Weather Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming

Weather and climate aren’t the same. It’s one thing for people who spend little or no time learning about global warming to confuse the two, but when those we elect to represent us don’t know the difference, we’re in trouble. For a U.S. president to tweet about what he referred to as “Global Waming” because […]

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    Arctic Refuge Oil Surveys Put Polar Bears in the Crosshairs

    Arctic Refuge Oil Surveys Put Polar Bears in the Crosshairs

    By Rebecca Bowe Send an army of industry workers into remote polar bear territory in the dead of winter, and things are not going to end well. Yet that’s just what the Trump administration would open the door to as it prepares for oil and gas drilling and moves to authorize seismic testing, a precursor […]

    These Eye-Opening Memes Show the Real 10-Year Challenge

    These Eye-Opening Memes Show the Real 10-Year Challenge

    Before-and-after photos of your friends have probably taken over your Facebook and Instagram feeds, but environmentalists are using the #10YearChallenge to insert a dose of truth. Memes of shrinking glaciers, emaciated polar bears and coral bleaching certainly subvert the feel-good viral sensation, but these jarring images really show our planet in a worrying state of […]

    The Youth Have Seen Enough

    The Youth Have Seen Enough

    By Rex Weyler The world’s youth have finally seen and heard enough from the deplorable political process, from compromised delegates, corrupted political appointees, and criminal corporations who sabotage these critical international discussions. The truth of our ecological crisis is not difficult to see. Fragile ecosystems are unraveling all around us. We have been warned by […]

    For This Polluting Industry, the Trump Shutdown Is Still ‘Business as Usual’

    For This Polluting Industry, the Trump Shutdown Is Still ‘Business as Usual’

    The government shutdown has left thousands of federal employees without a paycheck, but the Trump administration is making sure energy companies can continue with plans to extract fossil fuels from public lands. Even though the Interior Department‘s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is closed during the shutdown, agency employees organized public meetings for an environmental […]

    The Miraculous Hope of Climate Realists

    The Miraculous Hope of Climate Realists

    By Erika Spanger-Siegfried We’re stepping into a new year in the climate fight. The turning of the year is a milestone both for stoking our resolve, and for noting how deep we now are into climate overtime. In 2018 there was a lot of talk of diminishing odds and despair, and not without reason. So […]

    Zinke Leaves Interior to His Pro-Polluter, Anti-Environment Deputy

    Zinke Leaves Interior to His Pro-Polluter, Anti-Environment Deputy

    By Emilie Karrick Surrusco As 2019 begins, it’s out with the old and in with the same old, same old. Scandal-ridden Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke released a brief farewell letter Wednesday in red marker. With Zinke’s successor not yet named, David Bernhardt becomes acting secretary. The move swaps out one political insider closely […]