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Climate Crisis
Global Temperature Projections Could Double as the World Burns
With a scorching start to July and wildfires raging, a new study warns about long-range high temperature projections.
Wealth Can’t Protect Environmentally Ravaged Silicon Valley From Climate Change
The tech empire’s power and money are no match for the fierce drought and wildfires exacerbated by urban sprawl.
Bradley Foundation Funds Web of Climate Change Deniers
The Bradly Foundation promotes fossil fuel industry interests at the expense of the environment.
Behind the Blockades: Intersectional Organizing to Abolish ICE
Activists see a connection between migration and climate change, Indigenous solidarity and mass criminalization.
Ocasio-Cortez’s Climate Platform Is Just What the Planet — and the Democrats — Need
The candidate declared that more hardliners on climate are needed in Congress.
Oil Companies and Lobbyists Say They’re Ready to Solve Climate Change. Check the Fine Print.
The effort includes some deceptions already.
Trump Is Handing Us the Weapon We Need to Avert Climate Catastrophe
Nationalization could be used to shut down, rather than prop up, a failing fossil-fuel system.
Increased Deaths and Illnesses From Inhaling Airborne Dust: An Understudied Impact of Climate Change
Rising fine dust levels due to climate change could increase premature deaths by 130 percent in the US Southwest.
From Barricades to Courtrooms: The Fight Against a Fracked Gas Future in New York State
Activists are pushing the idea of “climate necessity” to end fracking.
The Trump Administration’s Plan to Hand a Coral Ecosystem to the Fishing Industry
This could jeopardize one of the world’s last thriving coral reef ecosystems.