Environment
Climate change is a class issue
April 11, 2019“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” This is the terrifying introduction to David Wallace-Wells’s timely new book The Uninhabitable Earth. One of Wallace-Wells’s observations is that more than half of carbon emissions from burning...
Read morePutin outlines ambitious Arctic expansion program
April 9, 2019President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday put forward an ambitious program to secure Russia’s foothold in the Arctic.
Read moreFor some river towns, flood protection is simply too costly
April 8, 2019Most communities on America’s rivers have some sort of flood protection — usually a concrete wall or an earthen levee. But a few places such as Clarksville do not.
Read moreGreen New Deal pushing climate change into mainstream media
April 5, 2019Climate change coverage in much of the mainstream media was abysmally low in 2018. It’s been tilting upward in the first quarter of 2019.
Read moreHow Fukushima nukes are still killing our climate, our planet, ourselves
April 3, 2019Eight years ago this week apocalyptic radiation clouds began pouring out of Fukushima, Japan.
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