The Republican Party is at it again with repeals that could have devastating consequences for the planet. Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has been on a warpath to undo the work of...
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera reached a special low place this morning in an interview with the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz. Cruz has recently been the target of several Twitter attacks by...
As of Monday night, meteorologists estimate that Hurricane Harvey has dumped 20 to 40 inches of rain on the Houston area, and rainfall totals could reach as much as 50 inches by the end of the week--enough...
How many times have we all heard the expression, "Think before you speak?" It's good advice, and it's certainly advice that Jeb Bush should take to heart.
On Thursday, shortly after Pope Francis addressed the Congress,...
Pearl Jam shows workers of the world solidarity by offering a generous financial contribution to the families of the victims in "one of the biggest environmental catastrophes in Brazil’s history."
There was a time when climate change deniers refused to accept that there was anything wrong with the earth’s climate. There was a time when Koch brother funded sophists would meander from media outlet to...
When the world shut down last year for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, something happened to the air.
It got cleaner.
According to Global Carbon Project researchers, carbon emissions dropped by 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 due to reduced...
Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe may not be a scientist, but he doesn't mind playing one on TV. And on the floor of the Senate Thursday, Inhofe once again proved just how ignorant he really is...
What is the greatest threat to global public health?
Many will argue it's COVID-19.
That's a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645,545 total confirmed cases in the United States alone, and 666,806 Americans...
Nothing will escape climate change's ravages.
International borders, economies, food and water supplies, health, education, transportation, energy sources, are all predicted to change with the climate as the planet warms faster than scientists predicted.
Another casualty we can...
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Following long negotiations, President Obama and Xi Jinping, President of China, agreed to a "historic" deal to protect the global climate, multiple sources?report.
Under that deal, the United States vows to cut CO2 to...
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,...
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,...
President Obama signs the United States into a legendary treaty that includes 190 countries pledging to reduce greenhouse emissions and to keep global temperature rise below the two-degree mark just one day before the G20...
A politician in Ireland is making global news for being spectacularly stupid. According to the Irish newspaper the Independent, a legislator named Danny Healy-Rae has been publicly pronouncing his decidedly unscientific claim that climate change isn’t...
Who will stand up to the “junk science” and “snobbery” of those who warn about the threats of climate change? It’s climate inaction figures to the rescue!
Inspired by the climate-denial rhetoric of the GOP, the...
Last night on his show "Real Time With Bill Maher," the comedian confronted GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on the subject of climate change, asking directly why Santorum, a devout Catholic, is so out of...
Ever since President Trump decided to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, reporters have been trying to get an answer to a simple question from a member of the administration: Does...
President-elect Donald Trump is a notorious climate change denier. Some environmentalists saw a glimmer of hope when he told the New York Times that he would keep an "open mind" about the Paris Agreement to address global...
EPA director Scott Pruitt has signed an order approving the continued use of a controversial pesticide – one that his own agency recommended banning in 2015 because it was scientifically proven to cause brain damage...
