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Our Warming Planet’s Glaciers Are Dying. In Nepal And Elsewhere, The Related Disasters are Just Beginning
The abrupt collapse of part of a glacier and resulting cataclysm catches our attention. But the slower, far more disastrous retreat of most of Earth’s glaciers doesn’t grab us.
August 28, 2026
Nat’l Security Minister Ben-Gvir says Israel should kill 30 to 40 Gazans every night because some of them are ‘not even people’
If there were any ambiguity in a handful of his many vicious, xenophobic past statements, there was none in what he said this weekend.
August 17, 2026
Colorado River Blues: Decades of warnings sparked no serious response. Now a megadrought and the climate crisis may force gigantic water cuts
The Bureau of Reclamation announced a plan Friday for allocating river allocations to seven states through 2036. Marc Reisner warned us four decades ago in “Cadillac Desert” that this day was coming.
August 2, 2026
Trump’s Ballroom and Arch? Hitler laughs.
July 18, 2026
Trump can’t stop the clean-energy future, but he’s striving to screw American workers and businesses out of our share of it
Of a report showing that blocking electrification and domestic clean energy manufacturing will cause a cumulative loss in GDP of $2.3 trillion by 2040, Bill McKibben says, “This all amounts to setting money on fire.”
July 16, 2026
Trump regime perched to repeat draconian reductions in size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments
The last time this happened, it was after a lot of secret administration happy talk about how much removal of protections could mean gobs more public land could be mined, logged, drilled, and otherwise exploited by their industry pals.
July 12, 2026
Motivated by ignorance, ego, and greed, Trump’s anti-wind, pro-coal policies will add $650bn to Americans’ energy bills during the next 15 years.
More pollution means worse health impacts, meaning more medical bills. Less clean energy means higher electricity and transportation bills. Being less competitive globally means a $2.3 trillion loss of GDP by 2040.
July 9, 2026
So you think it’s hot now? Scientists see more evidence climate changes are coming faster than expected
“The US having to cancel major 4th of July celebrations because of extreme heat is almost too spot on as a metaphor for the country’s failure to combat global warming.”—Fossil Free Media director Jamie Henn.
July 6, 2026
If the Supreme Court had taken on AR-15s when the first ban was passed, the ruling would almost certainly be different than the one we’ll get next year
Chances are strong that prohibitions on the sale and possession of AR-15s and other semi-auto firearms will be overturned by the justices
July 1, 2026
Oh goodie. Christian nationalists decide re-igniting religious wars would be a good thing as state education board mandates Bible lessons for 5 million Texas kids
How long before teachers get disciplined or fired for failing to take the right line when discussing these biblical excerpts?
June 27, 2026
150 years ago tomorrow, America began creating the Custer myth, a piece of which still survives today
In 1991, when the National Parks Service renamed the Little Bighorn battlefield site, removing Custer’s name, it sparked hate mail from Americans who still viewed him as a hero.
June 24, 2026
Popular culture has embedded many myths about Native peoples. One of those is the never-said words of a chief: ‘I will fight no more forever.’
What does It say about our national zeitgeist that the most famous and revered quote from an American Indian was part of a surrender speech?
June 22, 2026
Despite details of the memo of understanding with Iran now in the public domain, Trump dares to slur Obama for his “horrible” deal
June 17, 2026
Peace deal with Iran to be signed Friday in Switzerland. Before the ink dries you can bet the guy in the White House will once again demand he get the Nobel peace prize for ending what he and Netanyahu started
What are purportedly provisions of the memorandum of understanding regarding ending the Iran-US-Israel war looks to make it the “worst deal ever.”
June 14, 2026
Nations with nuclear weapons betray those without … again
Big Five nuclear nations ignore key element of non-proliferation treaty as they enhance and expand their atomic arsenals while telling non-nuclear nations to obey it to the letter. There’s growing disgruntlement over that.
May 27, 2026
‘Extreme Heat and Agriculture’ report released on Earth Day got less attention than the dumbest Truth™ Social post last week
WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo: “Extreme heat is increasingly defining the conditions under which agrifood systems operate.”
April 28, 2026
U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities pushes non-proliferation treaty a step closer to oblivion
The post-Cold War nuclear weapons reductions that once lent credibility to the disarmament project have reversed.
April 26, 2026
Trump’s Iran war adds to decay of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, making world less safe
The Iranian mullahs aren’t good guys. They slaughter their own people. But the war on Iran over its nuclear program is very much our Outlaw Prez’s fault motivated at least partly by his antipathy for all things Obama
April 10, 2026
U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization says in its State of the Global Climate Report that our situation really, really sucks
UN Secretary-General António Guterres: “Humanity has just endured the 11 hottest years on record. When history repeats itself 11 times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act.”
March 23, 2026