12 years. That's all we have left to preserve a habitable planet Earth. This week, Hurricane Michael wrecked havoc on the South only two days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report stating the world...
According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this June was the warmest on record. The average global temperature for that month was 1.35 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, 59.9. The first half of the year was the fourth...
Flint Water Tower
Two government agencies are warning Flint, Michigan, residents that their water still might not be safe, even though they are using the water filters handed out to make it safe. Simply put, the water filters...
According to MLive.com, the CDC has now found the first genetic link to the Legionnaires' outbreak and the Flint, MI water system. Far from a cause of celebration, however, the discovery leads to thorny questions about...
Is nothing sacred for the Republican platform committee, when they meet to draft what defines the party’s official principles and policies? Alongside forced LGBT "conversion therapy," no same-sex marriages, focus on Bible studies in school,...
Conservatives hate science, especially when it refuses to confirm their biases on issues they would rather not talk about in the first place. That dynamic was in evidence Monday evening on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show....
815 million people around the world went hungry last year. This, according to the latest data from the United Nations, is the first increase in global hunger in more than 15 years. Sweeping initiatives from nations all...
Currently, one in five species on Earth faces extinction.  According to the Biological Extinction Conference held at the Vatican last week, that percentage will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless we take immediate urgent action...
Storms about to brew
It was a Christmas week to forget for folks living in the Dallas area of Texas as at least 11 people have been confirmed dead as huge storms swept through Texas. These floods which spawned tornadoes and blizzards blew off rooftops, uprooted trees and left destruction in their wake.
Apparently we don't have to fear climate change anymore. That is if we go by a move the Trump administration made this week when it dropped climate change from a list of global threats. Instead, President Trump's National...
Residents of southeast Texas are working to get their lives back in order after Hurricane Harvey this week. The region is dealing with an array of environmental problems because of the storm. The Environmental Protection Agency...
It should come as no surprise by now that the objective of President Donald Trump's new cabinet is to unravel and de-legitimize vital federal programs that regulate standards on industry and protect our natural resources....
Last spring, when President Donald Trump was considering withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate accords, other nations' leaders pleaded with him to reconsider, appealing to a sense of responsibility and prudence. He was reminded of the...
ted cruz climate denial
In an interview with the Texas Tribune, Ted Cruz had the audacity to compare himself to Galileo and equate climate-change believers to those who believed the earth was flat. The idea would be laughable if...
The House of Representatives has approved a joint resolution that invites Alaskan hunters to engage in unimaginable acts of barbarism. House joint resolution 69, introduced by Alaska’s Republican Rep. Don Young, overturns a federal rule written by...
Perhaps people thought it was "fake news." Two years ago, an article appeared in the Miami Herald about Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials being barred from using the terms "climate change" or "global warming" in official communications, emails,...
Flint Class Action Legal Team Corroded Pipes
Erin Brockovich announced on February 11 that she will lend her legal expertise to the Flint Water Crisis Class Action Team, which is representing a number of Flint, Michigan, residents in a class action lawsuit filed in...
Climate Change
According to a new report from Bloomberg, the U.S. will seek to use money intended for climate change adaptation to promote the construction of new coal plants. The plan, according to an anonymous official inside the...
On Tuesday, Donald Trump ordered that employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) no longer share information via social media, press releases, or new website content. Additionally, all EPA grants and contracts have been frozen indefinitely, cutting...
climate science
A former policy advisor to the Interior Department has become, in his words, a “whistleblower” on the Trump administration’s treatment of climate scientists. Joel Clement was director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Interior...