Tag: science
Why does our skin wrinkle in water?
Mark Changizi’s study offers a scientific and anthropological explanation for a phenomenon many take for granted.
Across Africa, water conflict threatens security, health, and the environment
The scarcity-led conflict and crisis.
‘Drop fossil fuels,’ over 400 scientists tell PR firm handling UN...
“It’s an almost comical conflict of interest that Big Oil’s spin doctors are also in charge of communications for the UN climate talks.”
House committee investigates the role of PR firms in spreading climate...
There is a long history of PR firms creating and spreading climate disinformation in order to block climate policy and promote fossil fuel interests.
Greenland ice melt will raise global sea levels at least 10...
The scientists worry severe melting events, like the melting seen in 2012, could push eventual sea level rise closer to 30 inches.
With the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling, can Trump’s damage to the...
Trump’s appointments reveal the frightening far-reaching power of a corrupt president.
How the American Legislative Exchange Council turns disinformation into law
State lawmakers introduced nearly 2,900 bills based on ALEC templates from 2010 through 2018. More than 600 of them became law.
Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed for the same reasons
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.
Let’s get to the heart of the matter with biolabs and...
How can we justify slaughtering cows to repair our hearts, when the consumption of cows is what weakens our hearts?
As the planet warms, let’s be clear: We are sacrificing lives...
Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.
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6 fracking Billionaires and climate denial groups behind Trump’s cabinet
Trump’s nominees are backed by major players in the world of climate obstruction – from Project 2025 and Koch network fixtures to oil-soaked Christian nationalists.
Robber Barons on the march – what kind of backlash faces crisis-inducing, know-it-all oligarchs...
When did callous “austerity politics” suddenly make sense to the complaining impoverished?
No way we let Trump privatize postal service, say Progressives
Progressive leaders and advocates rally against President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to transform the U.S. Postal Service into a for-profit entity, emphasizing its critical role in American society.
Israeli attacks intensify in Gaza as body bags run out and journalists are killed
Palestinian families and first responders face impossible conditions amid escalating strikes while evidence of alleged genocide emerges and Ireland confronts diplomatic fallout.
Bernie Sanders condemns CEO killing, calls US health care system ‘broken and cruel’
The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has reignited calls for Medicare for All, highlighting public outrage at the U.S. health care system’s inequities and inefficiencies.