Solutions to Climate Change Cannot Overlook This One Key Factor
Workers fixing a rooftop destroyed by Hurricane Maria.Elizabeth Flores/ZUMA This story was originally published by The Bulletin of Atomic Sciences and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In advance of the UN Climate Summit this month, the Global Commission on Adaptation, chaired by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates,…
Some Indigenous Communities Have a New Way to Fight Climate Change: Give Personhood Rights to Nature
Four Yurok girls garbed in traditional tribal ceremonial clothing stand before the mouth of the Klamath River.Will Houston/AP This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This summer, the Yurok Tribe declared rights of personhood for the Klamath River—likely the first to do so for a river…
Okay, We Can Call This Donald Trump Video “Gaslighting,” I Guess
Brian Cahn/ZUMA President Donald Trump woke up angry on Saturday morning, called six members of Congress “savages,” and then went golfing. Fresh air and green spaces are proven to have a restorative effect, but Trump’s just a different cut of grass. So, a little while ago, he tweeted a direct-to-camera appeal to his voters (though…
I’m Obsessed With This 1994 Today Show Clip About “Internet”
Today Show It’s a lazy Saturday so let’s talk about this bonkers Today Show clip from 1994: I haven’t seen this clip in years… Today Show, 1994: “What is internet, anyway?” pic.twitter.com/G2YustAEbD — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 28, 2019 Where to start? Bryan Gumbel asking: “What is internet, anyway?” Katie Couric—if we can trust…
Watch Teenagers Confront Chevron Executives During the Latest Climate Strike
A climate striker with Youth vs. Apocalypse rallies the crowd outside Chevron’s headquarters.Bunker Seifert The security team at Chevron’s behemoth corporate campus in San Ramon, California, was only admitting badged employees, but it couldn’t stop a swarm of protestors from gathering outside the gate on Friday morning. A crowd of several dozen people, many of…
The Washington Post Published a Bombshell Report About Trump and Russia
Susan Walsh/AP On Friday night, the Washington Post published an absolute bombshell report about President Donald Trump: President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion…