Wetlands and old-growth forests stabilize carbon, sustain indigenous subsistence, buffer storms. Their destruction disproportionately burdens Indigenous peoples, rural communities, poor people and people of color who live in the âextractive zonesâ of this nation.
Shunning expertise, MAGA has chosen leaders based on their meme creation abilities. Oh, and now they're looking to start a shooting war.
The House votes to release the Epstein files, but Trump hasn't slowed down in his support to sex traffickers or his disdain for women.
When a government chooses austerity over humanity, the blood price is typically paid by people with no vote in the matter.
Abbott's hyperpartisan schemes just keep coming.
Worse than photos of Trump cavorting with topless underage girls? Trump already bragged about doing exactly that with the Miss Teen USA contestants.
We're on a trajectory to hit 2.6°C (4.7°F) of warming by 2100. If that prediction turns out to be right, it will be catastrophic.
Epstein appears to have been contemplating the move even up until his 2019 death.
The Trump regime has slashed funds and programs designed for America's first nations, but before he showed up, funding was already far below the needs and obligation.
The shutdown was the Senate's best chance to rein in Trump's illegal acts, but lawmakers couldn't stomach having that fight.
To Senate institutionalists, preserving the status quo is more important than challenging Trump's illegal acts
Brazil promises a âconference of action.â But unless fossil-fuel power is broken, implementation will mean only managed decline â and another squandered decade.
Republicans may scream âMarxist,â pundits may faint at the thought of actually doing something new, but the truth is that progressive ideas are extremely popular with Americans, and not just in blue cities.
The EPA had an honor system under which corporations estimated their emissions. A new investigative report shows many of those estimates were way way way off the real levels. Intentional undercount? Surely not.
And a seeming referendum against "moderation" when fighting fascism
Trump's theft of top secret documents was blatantly criminal and keeps getting worse.
The Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary laid the rhetorical foundation for U.S. empire in the western hemisphere
A new poll reminds us that angry voters want changeâand are seldom interested in the details
Greenhouse gas emissions predicted to decline 10% over 1990 by 2035. But to constrain warming the decline needs to be 60%
Trump says he wants to restart U.S. tests because other nations are testing. They're not.