Pollution

By Benjamin Wehrmann and Julian Wettengel | – Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country’s overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the country could get much closer to its 2020 climate […]

Climate Change

Why Carbon Dioxide has such a Dangerous influence on Earth’s Climate

The Conversation

By Jason West | – Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s Conspiracy Theories Hide the Real Plot, of Corporations against our Health

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump came to power in part because of weird conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, and he is still at it. This pollution of our information system with ridiculous charges against the Clintons, or the Obamas, or any number of other bêtes noires, is a form of misdirection, a technique used […]

Environmentalism

A Total Disgrace’: Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won’t Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children

Common Dreams

“The EPA is endangering the lives of children to protect pesticide industry profits.”

Climate Change

Politicians are Choosing Corporate Polluters & Planet Wreckers over Our Welfare: Can we Make them Stop?

OtherWords

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson | – (Otherwords) – From the White House to Ohio, too many politicians care more about protecting toxic industries than their constituents. I spent the summer of 2015 knocking on doors across Cincinnati. As a rising college sophomore, I’d joined a group called Ohio Citizen Action to canvass for my community and […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s Dismantling of our Government: Deregulating our Way to Disaster

John Buell

(Informed Comment) – While Trump’s xenophobic and protectionist agenda, thankfully often blocked by the courts, has received the lion’s share of media attention, his henchmen have enacted a whole series of game changing initiatives in the area of federal regulation. Deregulating such domestic concerns as transportation, occupational health and safety, the environment is hardly new. […]

Pollution

Suffocating Ourselves: Dumping Plastic into Ocean Poisons the Bacteria that Produce 10% of our Oxygen, underpin Marine Life

The Conversation

By Petra Cameron and Philippa Kearney | – We’ve all seen the impact of our plastic addiction. It’s hard to miss the devastating images of whales and sea birds that have died with their stomachs full of solidified fossil fuels. The recent discovery of a plastic bag in the Mariana Trench, at over 10,000 metres […]

Pollution

No Insects, No Food: Pesticides, Deforestation have Caused Largest Extinction Event since Die-off of Dinosaurs

Marlowe Hood

The recent collapse, for example, of many bird species in France was traced to the use insecticides

Climate Change

With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

ProPublica

By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the planet’s, didn’t fall in 2018 but instead skyrocketed. The 3.4 percent jump for 2018, projected by the firm, would be second-largest surge in greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. since […]