Tag: climate emergency
2023: A year of global human rights regression amid political expediency
Human Rights Watch's 2024 report exposes a year of global human rights backsliding amidst political compromises.
Over 84 million people forcibly displaced by climate emergency, insecurity, and...
“The international community must redouble its efforts to make peace, and at the same time must ensure resources are available to displaced communities and their hosts.”
220+ medical journals unite to demand urgent action on climate emergency
“The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C and to restore nature,” warn journals in unprecedented joint editorial.
Greta Thunberg: New IPCC Report is a wake-up call for all...
“The climate crisis is not going away. It’s only escalating, and it’s only growing more intense by the hour.”
Scientists who issued ‘climate emergency’ declaration in 2019 now say Earth’s...
A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.
Jane Fonda arrested: We are in a climate emergency. I have...
We speak with Jane Fonda about her climate activism and why she started Fire Drill Fridays.
‘Climate emergency. Look it up.’: Activists and experts celebrate New Oxford...
“STAY LOUD, it's working,” declared Greenpeace Canada.
Fascism then and now
A new book
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled “Fascism, Then and...
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‘No nonprofit is safe’: Trump escalates federal crackdown on civil society organizations
From Ivy League universities to climate and justice nonprofits, the Trump administration is deploying tax threats, federal takeovers, and embedded agents to suppress ideological dissent and dismantle nonprofit independence.
Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health
This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.
Facing Trump’s America
As we experience Donald Trump’s twenty-first-century version of White nationalism, how we dealt with that difficult past should help us remember that we lived through terrible times by confronting them and that we can do so again.
‘Zero care left’: UN says Israel has destroyed Gaza’s last hospital amid mass graves...
Mass graves, targeted killings of medics, and relentless hospital bombings mark the collapse of Gaza’s health system under Israeli siege, UN and forensic reports confirm.
Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and climate risks
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.