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- Enslaved people and the birth of epidemiology July 5, 2022
- Globe to gut: inside Big Food July 5, 2022
- How the peanut trade prolonged slavery July 5, 2022
- What Susan Collins said about abortion and the Supreme Court July 5, 2022
- BBC World Service – Newshour, Ukraine: Explosions in the southern city of Mykolaiv [Russia accused of weaponizing food and stealing Ukrainian grain supplies]. July 5, 2022
- Preview trailer: 2020 Reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Oration July 5, 2022
- Rethink Talks: The role of food in the COVID-19 pandemic July 4, 2022
- Rethink Talks: Misinformation, disinformation and sense making in crisis July 4, 2022
- Year of Return: The African Americans moving to Ghana – BBC Africa July 4, 2022
- What the Supreme Court’s monumental rulings tell us about the new conservative majority – YouTube July 4, 2022
- How Carnegie Built an Empire of Steel | The Men Who Built America (S1, E3) | Full Episode – YouTube July 4, 2022
- Flint Residents Outraged as Charges Dropped in Fatal Water Scandal That Poisoned Majority-Black City July 4, 2022
- “A Devastating Ruling”: Law Prof. Michele Goodwin & SCOTUS Attorney Kitty Kolbert on Overturning Roe July 4, 2022
- “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech July 4, 2022
- Students worldwide suffer education setbacks from pandemic school closures July 4, 2022
- SCARY. But they tried to warn us…. ft. Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff July 4, 2022
- An Essay on the Principle of Population: Thomas Malthus July 4, 2022
- Malthus and the Anthropocene: The Agricultural Collapse of Complex Civilizations July 3, 2022
- BBC World Service – Newshour, US Supreme Court curbs power to fight climate change July 2, 2022
- Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People: David, Orr, et. al. eds July 2, 2022
- Lawrence: Why Did Trump WH Counsel Cipollone Say ‘We’re Going To Get Charged’? July 1, 2022
- Just Solutions – Democracy Vs. The Big Lie July 1, 2022
- Winston Churchill and George Orwell, Who Preserved Democracy from the Threats of Authoritarianism July 1, 2022
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- Hate Clubs of the Air: A History of the Transformation of American Politics (2016) July 1, 2022
- ACLU’s David Cole: Supreme Court Conservatives Imposing “Truly Radical Ideology” on U.S. Population July 1, 2022
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- Town Meeting with Howard Zinn July 1, 2022
- Hutchinson Says Trump Was Warned of Potential Violence, Didn’t Care: “They’ re Not Here to Hurt Me” July 1, 2022
- Jan. 6 Bombshell: Trump Physically Attacked Secret Service Agent, Demanded to Join Mob at Capitol June 30, 2022
- “Hang Mike Pence!” As Armed Mob Threatens VP on Jan. 6, Witness Says Trump “Thinks Mike Deserves It” June 30, 2022
- George Orwell: Dark, Disturbed, Obsessing, Contrary; His Difficult and Ultimately Tragic Life (2001) June 30, 2022
- Malthus and the Anthropocene: An Essay on Population and the Evolving Global Food System June 30, 2022
- Trump Coup Nightmare: See The Moment Fox News Turns Amidst ‘Devastating’ Smoking Gun June 30, 2022
- UNICEF: ‘Children are facing cascading crises around the world’ • FRANCE 24 English June 29, 2022
- In the Black Fantastic: London art show addresses racial injustice June 29, 2022
- Noam Chomsky on Propaganda Models June 29, 2022
- The Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice – CSSJ | Brown University June 28, 2022
- 2022 UN Ocean Conference | United Nations June 27, 2022
- UN head declares ‘ocean emergency’ as global leaders gather in Lisbon | Oceans | The Guardian June 27, 2022
- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Address | Harvard Class Day 2022 June 27, 2022
- CIA Officer Exposes Secret Wars: “The CIA Is Running 50 Covert Actions and 13 Big Ones” (1986) June 27, 2022
- We are Zama Zama – BBC Africa Eye documentary June 27, 2022
- Sierra Club’s 2030 Strategic Vision June 27, 2022
- World faces ‘ocean emergency’, UN warns, as activists urge action June 27, 2022
- Russia’s war in Ukraine: A chance or a setback for the climate? | DW Interview June 27, 2022
- Indian Slave Trade in the Colonial South (2014) June 27, 2022
- Ukraine war’s latest victim? The fight against climate change. – The Boston Globe June 27, 2022
- What impact has the coronavirus pandemic had on the environment? | COVID-19 Special June 26, 2022
- Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future: Mary Robinson June 26, 2022
Daily Archives: March 28, 2019
‘Doomsday vault’ town warming faster than any other on Earth – CNN
By Sarah Lazarus, CNN Updated 0550 GMT (1350 HKT) March 27, 2019
(CNN) In 2014, Mark Sabbatini noticed cracks in his apartment walls. Then a mysterious bulge appeared in his bedroom and the apartment block’s communal staircase became crooked. “Doors and windows weren’t shutting properly,” he says.
Sabbatini, the editor of a local newspaper, was living in Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost town located just 800 miles from the North Pole, which is also the capital of a cluster of Norwegian islands called Svalbard.
A landscape of jagged mountains, fjords and glaciers, Svalbard — which experiences four months of darkness in winter, and four months of daylight in summer — is built on permanently frozen ground called permafrost.
For years, permafrost provided a base as hard as concrete. But now it’s melting — and that’s proving to be a problem.
Sabbatini says his building was damaged because it started sinking into the softening ground.
Inger Hanssen-Bauer, senior researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and editor of a new report about Svalbard, says the climate in Longyearbyen is probably warming faster than in any other town on Earth. That’s because of accelerated Arctic warming.
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose to All-Time High in 2018 + U.N. Secretary-General: Cyclone Idai Latest Warning Sign on Climate
Mar 27, 2019
In more climate news, global greenhouse gas emissions rose to an all-time high in 2018, with countries adding over 33 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. An International Energy Agency study found global CO2 levels rose by 1.7 percent last year. U.S. emissions rose by over 3 percent, while Europe and Japan saw slight decreases.
U.N. Secretary-General: Cyclone Idai Latest Warning Sign on Climate
Meanwhile, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday that Cyclone Idai is the latest “alarm bell” about the dangers of climate change. The storm killed over 750 people and has left nearly 2 million people in need of assistance in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Secretary-General António Guterres: “Cyclone Idai was an uncommonly fierce and prolonged storm, yet another alarm bell about the dangers of climate change, especially in vulnerable, at-risk countries. Such events are becoming more frequent, more severe and devastating and more widespread, and this will only get worse if we do not act now.”
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Senate Votes Down Green New Deal as Democrats Decry “Stunt Vote”
Mar 27, 2019
The Senate on Tuesday rejected the Green New Deal, after 43 Democrats voted “present” on the measure introduced by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Four other Democrats joined all 53 Republican senators in voting against the Green New Deal. Democrats—including the bill’s champion, New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—blasted McConnell’s move as a “stunt vote.”
The Green New Deal seeks to transform the U.S. economy through funding renewable energy while ending U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. Democratic leaders have resisted backing the deal, which has the support of all 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls in Congress.
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