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Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic

By Jane Palmer | Mosaic, the science of life | - - A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the world and climate change is making it worse. Jane Palmer…

Wind Power and the quest for 100% Renewables in age of Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Are some major industrial countries only a decade or two from getting all their electricity from non-fossil fuel sources? Since it is the…

India’s Electric-Car Plans could Leave Trump & US in Dust

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - India's announcement that it wants to have its automobile fleet go completely electric by 2030 is a bigger deal than it seems on…

Top 3 Ways the People can build a Trump-Free, Carbon-Free Future

By Jeremy Brecher | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - As the thousands of foot-weary protesters look back on the Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C. — and its scores of…

Iran Committed to Nuclear Deal, Opens Bonanza to European Investors

EurActiv | euroefe.es | translated by Sam Morgan | - - The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency (AEOI) said on Saturday (29 April) that his country will honour its commitments…

As Millions March for Climate, Stab in Back by EPA & NYT

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - An estimated 200,000 climate protesters rallied in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, braving record temperatures in the 90s, well above the average temperature for…

On Day of Climate March, Remember advance of Solar globally

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US public may have to march today for our government to recognize the dangers of climate change. But in the rest of…

Trump has it Backward: It is Dirty Coal that’s Killing Green Jobs

Trump has it Backwards: It is Dirty Coal that’s Killing Green Jobs

By Basav Sen | (Otherwords.org) | - - Wind and solar could create many, many more jobs than coal — especially if the government stops propping it up. When Donald Trump announced…

Climate March: How many more atomic bombs is Trump setting off in our Atmosphere?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The People's Climate March on Saturday will protest the Trump administration's pro-Climate Change policies of increasing US carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Just…

Climate March: Can we Save the Planet without Taking on the Pentagon?

By H Patricia Hynes | ( Portside ) | - - If we are not united in peace, we cannot save the planet. - Thich Nhat Hanh War and Warming: Can We…

Trump’s 1984: Peace is War, Environment is Pollution, Health is Sickness

By Steven Harper | (BillMoyers.com) | - - "If you look at these Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a reason. And that is for the deconstruction [of the administrative state]." At…

Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change (If only poisonous CO2 were black)

Vox/ UCLA | (Video News Clip) | - - "The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology. This is the first episode of Climate Lab, a…

40% of California Grid Power from Solar, Sometimes Costs less than Nothing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - For the first time, on the day of March 23, 40% of Californian grid power between 11 am and 2 pm was generated…

1 in 50 new Jobs in US is in Solar Energy, despite Trump

Bill Ritter, Jr. | (The Conversation) | On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that…

Donald Trump: Global Ecocide

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…

Sorry, Trump: China is Leading World toward first “Ecological Civilization”

David Tyfield | (The Conversation) | - - The Trump administration’s hostility towards climate action and research leaves a void in global climate politics. Could China step up? The world’s largest absolute…

“No new Coal Plants!” – European Energy Companies

Newsy |. (Video News Clip) | / The Tree | - - "Energy companies representing almost the entire European Union have promised not to build new coal power plants after 2020." Newsy:…

Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?

By Joseph Kirschke | (Next Billion) | - - In recent months, events across three continents showed how clean energy use by the mining industry, which consumes 11 percent of global energy,…

Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil

TeleSur | - - The latest executive order is seen by critics as a reckless attempt to boost energy industry profits at the cost of the environment and public health. U.S. President…

The simple Number that will Defeat Trump’s attempt to Roll back Obama Energy Policies

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's Executive Order deregulating dangerous gas emissions is being signed today at the Environmental Protection Agency. This is the greatest mean-spirited reversal since…