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The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (1683+ words) Amidst Donald Trump's wild Middle East War declarations, the tech billionaire push to nuclear reactor suicide has escalated with the shock re-licensing of California's two nuclear power plants at Diablo Canyon, now being pushed by the state's "liberal" Governor Gavin…...
Africa's forests no longer help fight climate change, shift to net carbon source
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (194+ words) Data published in the journal Scientific Reports reveals that this "safety net" has diminished. A landmark study confirmed that Africa's forests have officially crossed a tipping point, shifting from one of the world's largest carbon "sinks" to a net source…...
Why Capitalism Relies on Nature and Care Work It Does Not Pay For
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (1649+ words) Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor'essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems. This article was produced for the Observatory…...
Trump's Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global consumers absorb rising energy costs
2+ week, 2+ day ago (612+ words) Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits More than $100 billion has flowed from consumers and businesses around the…...
The case for global climate reparations
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1626+ words) The principle of making polluters pay works at a local level. Here's how to apply it to the international arena. Originally published in Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. To combat climate change, the entire world has to make the transition away from…...
You can't live without us': How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize dependence on fossil fuels
4+ week, 20+ hour ago (349+ words) Four of the world's biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically'shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push'a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a'report has found.' The report found a "consistent and coordinated…...
Fossil fuels as a weapon of war:' US-Israeli war on Iran exposes world's dangerous reliance on oil
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (325+ words) This comes as Israel has struck oil depots in Tehran, blanketing the capital in smoke and toxic rain. "What we're seeing is just one of the clearest depictions yet of the frailty of a global order that is grounded in…...
A warming planet makes nor'easters & other storms more intense: Climate scientist Michael Mann
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (461+ words) With its defunding of scientific infrastructure across the country, "the Trump administration is truly putting Americans in harm's way." AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! , Democracynow. org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman in New York, joined by…...
158 giant tortoises return to Gal'pagos island of Floreana after 180 years
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (203+ words) The reintroduction of the tortoise, a keystone "ecosystem engineer," is vital for seed dispersal and habitat regeneration in Gal'pagos conservation." "I get goosebumps thinking about it," Dr. Penny Becker, CEO of Island Conservation, said. "These tortoises"aren't"just another species…...
Supreme Court will hear Exxon's effort to crush climate lawsuits
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (551+ words) Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases. For the first time, the U. S. Supreme Court has granted oil companies" request to weigh in on whether climate accountability lawsuits…...