Climate Change
As Biden Names Advisers, Climate Activists Push Back on Fossil Fuel...
By Candice Bernd,
November 19, 2020
photo: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout
Environmental groups are ratcheting up a pressure campaign against President-elect Joe Biden’s potential cabinet picks who...
Engelhardt, Gloom and Doom 2020
State of Chaos
Donald Trump Knew Us Better Than We Knew Ourselves
By Tom Engelhardt
November 10, 2020
In 2016 as now, he was the candidate of chaos....
Confronting Climate Crisis with Systemic Alternatives in the Age of the...
Dear friends and colleagues, students and teachers moved by the climate crisis we are in, you are all invited to attend and participate in...
Noam Chomsky on Trump’s Troop Surge to Democratic Cities & Whether...
July 24, 2020
“President Trump is desperate,” says world-renowned dissident Professor Noam Chomsky in an extended interview that begins with President Trump’s vow to send...
World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert
By Fiona Harvey
Thu 18 Jun 2020
The world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a...
100 degrees Fahrenheit! Eastern Siberian town shatters record for hottest-ever temperature...
By Jonny Tickle
20 Jun, 2020
The small town of Verkhoyansk, home to 1,000 people in Russia's Yakutia region, broke the record on Saturday for the...
ECB injects over €7 billion into fossil fuels since start of...
03/06/2020
Brussels/Frankfurt – Greenpeace analysis shows that between mid-March and mid-May 2020, as part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, the European Central Bank...
Fossil Fuel-Backed Climate Deniers Rush to Promote Michael Moore Documentary ‘Planet...
By Richard Collett-White and Zak Derler
May 1, 2020
Climate science deniers and long-time opponents of renewable energy, many with ties to oil and gas companies,...
Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned...
Bill Gates backs startup using sunlight to create 1,000C-plus heat
Heliogen uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy that can power heavy industry
By Jillian Ambrose
19 Nov 2019
Bill Gates is backing a new venture which aims...