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Germany: For First time, Wind and Solar Power Generation exceeds Fossil Fuels
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm reports that for the first nine months of 2024, Germany generated more electricity from wind […]
Newly Elected Trump is Threatening to turn back the Tide on America’s environmental Laws and reverse Climate Progress
By Stephen Lezak, University of Oxford and Barbara Haya, University of California, Berkeley | – The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used […]
Taking Issue with Suspension of Harvard Library Access for Students and Faculty staging “Read-In” to Protest Gaza War
Committee on Academic Freedom | – Middle East Studies Association Alan M. Garber President, Harvard University alan_garber@harvard.edu . . . Dear President Garber, Provost Manning, […]
Israel’s Scholasticide and the Irrelevance of US Politics: 11,923 Palestinian Students didn’t Go Back to School this Fall because Israel Killed them
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Ministry of Education released a report this week detailing that 11,923 students in Gaza have been killed by […]
Valencia Floods: Our warming Climate is making once-rare Weather more Common, and more Destructive
By Antonio Ruiz de Elvira Serra, Universidad de Alcalá | – (The Conversation) – In the last few days, a seasonal weather system known in […]
Protesting U of Minnesota Barring Students from Campus for Protesting Gaza War
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Rebecca M. Cunningham President, University of Minnesota upres@umn.edu . . . Dear President Cunningham […]
Trump would be an “Extinction-Level Event” for the Planet, Turbocharging Climate Change. Vote Accordingly.
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UC Berkeley scholars warn that “with plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate […]
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Israeli Attacks on Lebanese Medics Apparent War Crimes: Israel’s Allies should Suspend Arms Sales
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch […]
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