By Marianne Lavelle* – InsideClimate News Despite having unprecedented influence in Washington to achieve a fossil fuel-first agenda, conservative interests are eyeing events outside the Beltway with unease When climate science deniers and fossil fuel evangelists met Tuesday in…
Daniel Boffey and Saeed Kamali Dehghan (*) – The Guardian Federica Mogherini urges Europeans to increase business with Tehran despite US threats The EU is set on a collision course with Donald Trump after its foreign policy chief called for Europeans to increase their business…
By Emily Thampoe UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2018 (IPS) – Although indigenous peoples are being increasingly recognised by both rights activists and governmental organisations, they are still being neglected in legal documents and declarations. Indigenous peoples are only mentioned in…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Aug 6 2018 (IPS) – The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and…
Foundation “Audacity in the name of Humanity” Why are you invited? As human being inhabitant of the Earth you are invited to act against the commodification and privatization of any life form.
By David Kaye and Edison Lanza (*) GENEVA / WASHINGTON, Aug 3 2018 (IPS) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the free press are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts.
John Abraham – The Guardian Human carbon pollution is melting the Arctic, but aerosol pollution is slowing it down The Arctic is one of the “canaries in the coal mine” for climate change. Long ago, scientists predicted it would warm quicker than other parts of the planet, and…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post Earlier this week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered an annual speech to ethnic Hungarians at a summer camp in Romania. He largely echoed the remarks he made last year, when he bemoaned European liberalism and championed the…
By Shannon Osaka – Grist The New York Times and the super-wicked problem of climate change This weekend, the New York Times’ print subscribers will get something kind of crazy in the mail: A 66-page magazine with only a single article — and it’s on climate change. The long-form…
By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly – The Washington Post Fact Checker Analysis * Because of summer vacation schedules, we had fallen a month behind in updating The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the…
