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State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
Climate Crisis

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all the […]

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

08/17/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

08/17/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
It's Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

It’s Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

( Commondreams.org ) – When Amnesty International released its report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity” earlier the month, […]

Phyllis Bennis

China
China is Rising as a Superpower by vastly Expanding Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuels

China is Rising as a Superpower by vastly Expanding Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuels

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the middle of […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Batteries
By Blocking Green Energy, Manchin and Republicans are Siding with Russia and Endangering US National Security

By Blocking Green Energy, Manchin and Republicans are Siding with Russia and Endangering US National Security

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Vladimir Putin just made you poorer. Your retirement funds invested in the stock market just tanked. The cost of getting […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate data reveals a hottest, driest Southwest in 1,200 Years, with more extremes possible

Climate data reveals a hottest, driest Southwest in 1,200 Years, with more extremes possible

By Alexia Stanbridge | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – The megadrought that’s gripped Arizona and the Southwest since 2000 is the driest […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Israel/ Palestine
Europe Needs to Ban trade with Israeli Squatter Settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories

Europe Needs to Ban trade with Israeli Squatter Settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories

Human Rights Watch – (Brussels, February 21, 2022) – The European Commission should prohibit EU trade with settlements in occupied territories globally, Human Rights Watch […]

Human Rights Watch

Russia
Putin’s antagonism toward Ukraine was never just about NATO – it’s about creating a new Russian empire

Putin’s antagonism toward Ukraine was never just about NATO – it’s about creating a new Russian empire

By Emily Channell-Justice and Jacob Lassin | – As some Western observers have feared, Russian President Vladimir Putin has just proved that his aggression toward […]

The Conversation

Batteries
Will Germany's Pause of Russian Gas Pipeline over Ukraine Galvanize its Green Energy Switch?

Will Germany’s Pause of Russian Gas Pipeline over Ukraine Galvanize its Green Energy Switch?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, Germany’s socialist Chancellor, Olaf Scholtz, suspended the permitting process for the Nord Stream 2 methane gas pipeline that […]

Juan Cole

Algeria
Sanctions on Russia may be a Bonanza for Mideast Gas and Oil Producers, but Where will they get their Wheat?

Sanctions on Russia may be a Bonanza for Mideast Gas and Oil Producers, but Where will they get their Wheat?

By Ihsan Al-Faqih | – Over the decades, the Middle East has been an arena of contention over influence and interests between the US and […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California

First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California

By Roger Bales | – Mounting evidence suggests the western United States is now in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Groundwater supplies […]

The Conversation

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