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Dahr Jamail | Evidence of Acceleration of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption on All Fronts
Multiple scientific reports have been recently released that warn of looming climate disaster that will accelerate with time.

An Ode to Seasons for Peter Matthiessen
"u2028u2028Peter was one of the greatest human beings to have ever lived on this Earth. He loved wild places and animals. He fought for the indigenous peoples and conservation …

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Climate Change Is Real: Just Ask the World Bank
It's time to put an end to all of the pseudoscience and climate-change denial talk.

The Perp in the Greatest Mass Extinction on Earth? Methane
We're sitting on a "methane bomb" in the Arctic region - and climate change is releasing it.

Hijacking the American Plane of State: Old Scripts and Empty Stories Signal a New Age
If you want a news story that will glue eyes, then think of it this way: on September 12, 2001, the national security state entered the cockpit of the …

UN Climate Panel Issues Dire Warning of Threat to Global Food Supply, Calls for Action and Adaption
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening …

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Noam Chomsky | The Prospects for Survival
Noam Chomsky: The US government's regular, easy acceptance of threats to survival is almost too extraordinary to capture in words.

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Is It Time To Charge People With Ecocide?
Our public officials, elected representatives and business leaders could all be guilty of crimes against humanity.

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Dahr Jamail | The Vanishing Arctic Ice Cap
Arctic sea ice researchers are predicting that sea ice will no longer last through summers in the next couple of years, and even US Navy researchers have predicted an …

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The Legacy That We Are Leaving: The Extinction of Species
There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …