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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
China

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

05/16/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

05/16/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Environment
Paint some Blades Black: A Simple Hack for Solving the bird problem with Wind Turbines

Paint some Blades Black: A Simple Hack for Solving the bird problem with Wind Turbines

By Jethro George Gauld| – With climate change threatening many of the world’s species with extinction, a transition from fossil fuels is urgently needed. But […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump popularity with Military was already Cratering before Belleau-gate

Trump popularity with Military was already Cratering before Belleau-gate

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even before some whistleblowers among the generals went to the Atlantic magazine with their complaints that Trump disrespected US war […]

Juan Cole

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Nearly 10% German New Car Registrations will be Electric this Year, up 130%

Nearly 10% German New Car Registrations will be Electric this Year, up 130%

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – The share of new electric vehicle registrations in Germany reached a new record in August. […]

Clean Energy Wire

Donald Trump
How Can 43% of Americans Support a crude, vulgar, shallow, petty, self-worshiping, obnoxious racist ?

How Can 43% of Americans Support a crude, vulgar, shallow, petty, self-worshiping, obnoxious racist ?

Sometimes it seems like we live in a huge loony bin where things make no sense. How could the world’s richest, strongest nation give its […]

James A. Haught

Climate Crisis
Another Pandemic Looms: Global Heating will put new Areas at Risk for Malaria

Another Pandemic Looms: Global Heating will put new Areas at Risk for Malaria

By Mark Smith and Chris Thomas | – Of an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide each year, around 93% are in Africa. This […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
What was the Battle of Belleau Woods, the Slain Marines at which Trump called "Losers" and "Suckers"?

What was the Battle of Belleau Woods, the Slain Marines at which Trump called “Losers” and “Suckers”?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic reported yesterday on what he was told by four members of Trump’s entourage about the […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Trump warns of "Total Anarchy, Madness and Chaos," but they are his Reelection Strategy

Trump warns of “Total Anarchy, Madness and Chaos,” but they are his Reelection Strategy

Sacramento, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – During the Republican National Convention, in his fantasy world, Trump paralogized a “liberal dystopia” claiming: “I’m the only […]

Bahman Fozouni

Climate Crisis
Burning Fossil Fuels is causing Extreme Rainfall and Acceleration of Earth's Water Cycle

Burning Fossil Fuels is causing Extreme Rainfall and Acceleration of Earth’s Water Cycle

By Francis Zwiers and Ronald Stewart | – Extreme weather and climate events causing extensive damage are a fact of the Canadian climate, and this […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Fears Pandemic could Spur Dramatic Spike in Homelessness

Fears Pandemic could Spur Dramatic Spike in Homelessness

By Jessica Myers (Luce Foundation: Southwest Stories Fellowship): ( Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – For more than three decades, André House just west of downtown […]

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