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Dahr Jamail | Toxic Slime Spreads Across Oceans as Climate Disruption Continues
Alaska is the proverbial canary in the coal mine for a world experiencing rapid anthropogenic climate disruption.
Time to Drive Factory-Farmed Food Off the Market
It's time to zero in on factory farms and the entire degenerate system food and farming system before it kills us all.
Water Protectors at Standing Rock React to Obama’s Intervention in Dakota Access Pipeline Battle
We begin today's show with major updates in the fight by Native Americans to stop the proposed $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.
A Test of US Climate Leadership Will Be the Treatment of the Standing Rock Sioux
Can we trust Clinton-Kaine promises of an energy future “where no one is left out or left behind”?
The Toxic Legacy of Racism and Nuclear Waste Is Very Much Still With Us in Los Alamos
A company town where the business is nuclear weapons.
False Promises: Avoid “Miracle” Rice and Just Eat a Carrot
Golden rice is a false miracle. It is a disease of nutritionally empty mono-cultures offered as a cure for nutritional deficiency.
Texas Tribes Mobilize in Solidarity With Sioux Against Dakota Access Pipeline
Indigenous activists in Texas highlight their own fight against the Trans-Pecos Pipeline and its corporate ties.
President Obama: Pull the DAPL Permit, Do the Climate Test
We should see DAPL as no different than Keystone XL, and treat it as such.
Fossil Fuel Industry Paid for Meetings With GOP Attorneys General to Plan Attack on Clean Power Plan
Private emails, documents reveal year-long behind-the-scenes collusion between GOP state officials and fossil fuel lobbyists.
Study Finds Greenhouse Gases Doubled the Chances of Louisiana’s Flooding Rains
A new study finds that human-caused climate change doubled the chances of the torrential rains that caused deadly flooding in LA.