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The grassroots movement behind the Green New Deal offers a ray of hope to the badly battered establishment: they should embrace it - make it part of the progressive agenda. We need something positive to save us from ugly wave of populism, nativism...
Wind, solar and other companies in the green sector would benefit in a big way from a Green New Deal. A full-blown climate crisis is barreling at us like a wrecking ball off its chain. The question of whether we achieve a Green New Deal....
We are in the midst of record-setting climate extremes, why wasn’t news coverage of the 2018 UN climate conference front-page news? Why didn’t news coverage, where it existed, convey the crisis of time – 11 years according to UN studies.
Hurricanes are powered by large bodies of warm water, and climate change is warming the oceans
Experts suspect climate change is behind this and other shifts in precipitation patterns. But knowing what’s causing an increase in precipitation and knowing what to do about it are two different issues.
If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand.
What role does warming – specifically the warming ocean and air temperatures in the Arctic – play in this warm-West/cool-East weather pattern? Here's the explanation.
Warring visions have now erupted over the energy and economic futures of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.Will the islands become a cutting-edge green-powered solartopia for the benefit of their long-time residents? Or a fossil-fueled robber baron playground like Hong Kong or Singapore, set to operate for the profit of outside corporate investors?
The U.S. federal government should adopt a strategy to manage climate change risks, as their cost to the government may rise as much as $35 billion per year by mid-century, a congressional watchdog office report released on Monday said.
Much of Puerto Rico still has no power, people are not able to work, students cannot return to school, too many are forced to rely on contaminated drinking water. Under the banner of a “just recovery” for Puerto Rico, thousands have come together to design a bold and holistic plan for the island to be rebuilt as a beacon for a safe, resilient, and thriving society in the era of accelerating climate chaos, spiraling economic inequality, and rising white nationalism.
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