Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in New York, she announced on Twitter. She expects to come ashore this afternoon after 15-days spent crossing the Atlantic on a zero-emissions racing yacht, which she took instead of flying to avoid adding to her carbon footprint. “We have anchored off Coney Island — clearing customs and […]
A Nebraska court has granted a victory to the owner of the Keystone XL pipeline, removing one of the last major challenges in the project’s way. The state’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled unanimously that the state’s Public Service Commission had acted in the public interest in approving an alternate route for the pipeline in […]
Picture this: a world where chocolate is as rare as gold. No more five-dollar bags of candy on Halloween. No more boxes of truffles on Valentine’s day. No more roasting s’mores by the campfire. No more hot chocolate on a cold winter’s day. Who wants to live in a world like that? Unfortunately, we all […]
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted down a resolution calling for an official, party-sanctioned debate on the climate crisis, ABC News reported Thursday. Activists have been leaning on the party to sanction such a debate as part of the 2020 Democratic primary, but DNC’s resolutions committee voted 17-8 Thursday against the measure authored by Washington […]
Hope may be on the horizon for the world’s depleted coral reefs thanks to scientists who successfully reproduced endangered corals in a laboratory setting for the first time, according to Reuters. The majestic beauty of the biodiversity in ocean’s coral reefs is under threat from the climate crisis. Viruses and bacteria that are hostile to […]
Brazil‘s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro is giving President Trump a run for his money in the alternative facts department. Responding to international outrage following the news that there are record numbers of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Bolsonaro tried to shift the blame away from his pro-business administration and onto an unlikely culprit: non-governmental […]
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who made solving the climate crisis the center of his presidential campaign, is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic primary race. Inslee announced his exit Wednesday while speaking on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, The Guardian reported. “It’s become clear that I’m not going to be carrying the ball,” Inslee said. […]
A coalition of some of the largest environmental groups in the country joined forces to file a lawsuit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s maneuver to weaken the Endangered Species Act. The Department of the Interior’s changes to the Endangered Species Act — which has successfully protected 99 percent of the animals on the […]
By Jake Johnson Calling the global climate crisis both the greatest threat facing the U.S. and the greatest opportunity for transformative change, Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled today a comprehensive Green New Deal proposal that would transition the U.S. economy to 100 percent renewable energy and create 20 million well-paying union jobs over a decade. “This […]
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