Climate Delegates Flock to Cairo to Prep for Next UN Summit
Families displaced by recent flooding set up this makeshift camp in Charsadda, Pakistan.PPI via ZUMA Press Wir This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With only two months to go before the United Nations climate conference kicks off in Egypt, delegates are descending on Cairo this…
Electric Utilities Key Players in Climate Denial, Study Finds
Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. America’s electric utilities were aware as early as the 1960s that the burning of fossil fuels was warming the planet, but, two decades later, worked hand in hand with oil and gas companies to “promote doubt around climate…
DC Mayor Responds to Months-Long Migrant Busing By Declaring a Public Emergency
Migrants get off bus from Texas within view of the US Capitol.Stefani Reynolds/AFP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency in response to the buses of migrants arriving from Texas and Arizona to the Nation’s…
The Colorado River Is Dying. Can Its Aquatic Dinosaurs Be Saved?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“You’re looking at the most endangered fish in North America,” Zane Olsen, the manager of the Ouray National Fish Hatchery tells me as he points to a deep open-topped water tank. Inside are dozens of juvenile bonytail, the rarest…
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May, during an Aspen Institute conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the audience, “I want the Republican Party to take back the party, take it back to where you were when you cared about a woman’s right to…
Republicans Are Desperately Trying to Change Their Tune on Abortion
Flip-flop: the sound or motion of something flapping loosely; or a backward handspring; or a a sudden reversal (as of policy or strategy).Christoph Soeder/DPA/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the months following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, popular support for abortion has…