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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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Acidification of Oceans
New Findings: 251.9 Million Years Ago Rapid Climate Change from CO2 Wiped out 90% of Species

New Findings: 251.9 Million Years Ago Rapid Climate Change from CO2 Wiped out 90% of Species

By Jennifer Botha | – The end-Permian mass extinction is considered to be the most devastating biotic event in the history of life on Earth […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
Retired US Officers are all in on Forever Wars:  Where are the Smedley Butlers of Today?

Retired US Officers are all in on Forever Wars: Where are the Smedley Butlers of Today?

(Tomdispatch.com) – There once lived an odd little man — five feet nine inches tall and barely 140 pounds sopping wet — who rocked the […]

Danny Sjursen

Russia
As Tensions Flare between Russia and Turkey in Syria, will Trump be Drawn in on side of Ankara?

As Tensions Flare between Russia and Turkey in Syria, will Trump be Drawn in on side of Ankara?

By Bakr Sidqi | – Amid international neglect of the tragedy of an additional one million displaced individuals from the “de-escalation” zones in the countryside […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Methane Emissions Crisis and Rapid Global Heating: It is all Fossil Fuel Drilling and Fracking

Methane Emissions Crisis and Rapid Global Heating: It is all Fossil Fuel Drilling and Fracking

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Many policy and scientific questions have the form of a Whodunnit. In what Umberto Eco called the “closed” mystery, the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Kushner-Netanyahu Plan for Israel to Annex Squatter Settlements in West Bank aims at Forever Blocking a Palestinian State

The Kushner-Netanyahu Plan for Israel to Annex Squatter Settlements in West Bank aims at Forever Blocking a Palestinian State

By Ghassan al-Shami | – (Middle East Monitor) – Israel and its allies in Washington view the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem as the focal […]

Middle East Monitor

Russia
In Syria's Idlib, Turkey is trying to play middle man between Russia and the US – with little success

In Syria’s Idlib, Turkey is trying to play middle man between Russia and the US – with little success

By Umut Korkut and Tarik Basbugoglu | – The recent turn of events in Idlib, an opposition stronghold in north-western Syria undergoing bombardment by the […]

The Conversation

Bernie Sanders
Can the Democrats' Foreign Policy Visions clean up Trump's Global Mess?

Can the Democrats’ Foreign Policy Visions clean up Trump’s Global Mess?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Democratic candidates offer a wide range of foreign policy views. These won’t decide the election, but they could have […]

John Feffer

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94% of Palestinians reject Trump's Kushner Plan, with Massive Rallies, and 2/3s say Two-State Solution is Dead

94% of Palestinians reject Trump’s Kushner Plan, with Massive Rallies, and 2/3s say Two-State Solution is Dead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 94% of Palestinians reject the Kushner Plan for Palestine, and two thirds of Palestinians ,according to a recent opinion […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The unexpected link between the ozone hole and Arctic warming

The unexpected link between the ozone hole and Arctic warming

By Karen Smith | – One of the earliest climate model predictions of how human-made climate change would affect our planet showed that the Arctic […]

The Conversation

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