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Clear the Air by Slashing Military Spending

14May

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Clear the Air by Slashing Military Spending

BY ALLIYAH LUSUEGRO Photo by Joanne Francis Just a few weeks ago, I couldn’t step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask. As the smoke from wildfires in Canada swept across the eastern U.S., tens of millions of Americans from the East Coast to the Midwest found themselves living under severe air quality advisories. Phones buzzed with warnings as wildfire haze clouded our skylines and concerts and baseball games were canceled or postponed. It was the first time I experienced a Code Purple or Code Maroon — and the first time I understood what an Air Quality Index (AQI) of over 300 truly means as my eyes stung from the charred air. With the wildfire season still only just beginning — and hurricane season looming — we lik...

14May

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

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The Ocean Red Zone

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Steven Weeks. Oceans of the world are in a dangerous red zone that exceeds safe limits for marine and terrestrial life because of excessive heat. Several statements by climate scientists show heightened concerns about how this plays out, as 2023 could be a major inflection point with global warming suddenly turning much worse. For example, the recent work of Annalisa Bracco, Ph.D., Professor School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech, Ocean Heat Is Off The Charts – Here’s What That Means for Humans and Ecosystems Around the World, Phys.org, June 21, 2023 The backgrounder for ocean heat taking center stage includes major developed countries that haven’t done nearly enough to cool things down despite Paris ’15 commitments t...

Kherson flood rescue enters second day after collapse of huge dam

13May

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Kherson flood rescue enters second day after collapse of huge dam

Residents in the Korabel microdistrict have found themselves trapped after waters rose again overnight Kateryna FarbarIvan Tvorchyi Rescue boats ply all day with the evacuated people taking only their most valuable possessions – documents and pets | Igor Burdyga Kherson is flooded for a second day following the destruction of a huge dam upstream of the city. The first wave of evacuations, caused more by panic than by a real rise in water, broke off on Tuesday afternoon, says Oleg, a local volunteer who rescued residents in the Korabel ‘microdistrict’ – essentially an island that has been under constant fire from Russian artillery since November. But on Wednesday morning, those living nearest the edge of the swollen Dnipro river found themselves trapped. In Voro...

On Climate Change, Centrism Means a Slow Death

6May

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On Climate Change, Centrism Means a Slow Death

BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Miami Herald recently reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest forecast predicting a record-breaking hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean. “Brace Yourself, Florida,” warned the paper, explaining that the “NOAA is predicting that 17 to 25 named storms could form this year,” which is “the highest ever forecast by the federal agency.” The paper, to its credit, made clear links between such dire predictions and global warming, saying, “Climate change is making more powerful storms more likely, cranking up the dial on extreme rainfall and strong surge and making it more common that storms rapidly strengthen as they approach land.” Insurance companies are likely taking...

Sleep Now in the Fire: the Year in Climate

4Apr

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Sleep Now in the Fire: the Year in Climate

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Fog and flood on a 60-degree December day in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. January + New research published this week in the journal Science suggests that even at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels, the Earth will lose nearly half of its 214,000 glaciers, resulting in more than 3 inches of sea level rise. Three degrees C (5.4 degrees F)of warming, the study finds, would result in a loss of over 70 percent of global glaciers and raise global sea levels by five inches. + The 1.5C warming target was always a lie: first in that meeting it would forestall devastating convulsions of the Earth’s ecosystems, second that warming could be limited to 1.5C under the timid measures of K...

ESA at 50: Celebrating the Nation’s Most Effective Environmental Law

3Mar

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ESA at 50: Celebrating the Nation’s Most Effective Environmental Law

BY ERIK MOLVAR Photograph Source: Sounds Wild – CC BY-SA 4.0 December 28th marks the 50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), widely regarded as America’s most potent and effective environmental law. The Act has saved hundreds of species from extinction, and is overwhelmingly popular with the American voters. When it originally passed in 1973, to be signed by President Nixon, it carried the Senate unanimously and won a bipartisan majority of 390 in favor to 12 against. Preventing extinction, it turns out, is a bedrock American value. The strength of the ESA is its legal requirement that decisions must be made solely based on the best available science, sidelining politics. In the absence of this law’s protection, powerful special interests – like t...

30Dec

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Climate Crisis, Environment

Climate Change Accounting: The Failure of COP25

by BINOY KAMPMARK Prior to the UN Convention on Climate Change talks held in Madrid, the sense that tradition would assert itself was hard to buck. Weariness and frustration came in the wake of initial high minded optimism. Delegates spent an extra two days and nights attempting to reach a deal covering carbon reduction measures before the Glasgow conference in 2020. The gathering became the longest set of climate talks in history, exceeding the time spent at the 2011 Durban meeting by 44 hours. As Climate Home News noted, Durban still stood out as being worthier for having “produced a deal between countries that laid the foundations for the Paris Agreement.” In stark contrast, “Madrid produced a weak gesture toward raising climate targets and failed to agree fo...

17Aug

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Jay Inslee Just Wants to Save the World From Climate Change

byRyan Cooper Inslee did use most of his time to hammer on the "climate crisis."(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) The second Democratic debate Wednesday evening was a bit of a boring mess. The first 45 minutes on health care were muddled and confusing, and a great deal of time was taken up with attempts by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.) to land blows on former Vice President Joe Biden by attacking his past, each of which mostly failed — in large part because both have troubled histories of their own. But one candidate stood out, not for his performance as much as his reason for being on stage: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who is quite literally trying to save the world. He didn't have the wittiest put-downs or the most practiced talk...

1Sep

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Climate change, extreme weather, destructive lifestyles

NOVANEWS Graham Peebles writes: Throughout the world heat waves, flooding and uncontrollable wildfires have caused widespread havoc, lives have been lost, homes destroyed, livelihoods ruined. Unprecedented levels of heat have been recorded in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. According to The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) record cold May temperatures were registered in “northeastern Canada and the northern Atlantic Ocean, off the southern coast of Greenland.” Global temperatures for the first five months of the year were the highest on record for a La Niña year; higher temperatures, “lead to more frequent and long-lasting heat waves causing adverse environmental impacts.” These extreme weather patt...

5Feb

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Tim DeChristopher | In the Face of Climate Crisis, Let's Make 2018 a Year for Realism

NOVANEWS By Tim DeChristopher (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) This story is the first in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves forward. "So, the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don't try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all to get better but knowing as bad as it hurts our hearts may have only just skinned their knees knowing there is a chance the worst day might still be coming let me say right now for the record, I'm still gonna be here ... you -- you stay here with me, okay? You stay here with me." —Andre...