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14/01/23
Author: 
Nicholas Kusnetz
People take part in a protest against ExxonMobil before the start of its trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress

Jan. 12, 2023

For climate activists, the term “Exxon Knew” has settled deeply into the lexicon of climate accountability, shorthand for the contradiction between the oil giant’s long campaign to publicly question climate science and its internal understanding that the science was sound. 

Now, new academic research lends statistical rigor to this concept by showing that the company’s own climate projections, dating back decades, consistently predicted the warming that was to come primarily from burning fossil fuels.

11/01/23
Author: 
Rose Abramoff
Hemlock trees are dying because of a pest that now survives the warming winters.Credit...Desmond Picotte for The New York Times

Jan. 10, 2023

Dr. Abramoff is an earth scientist who studies the effect of climate change on natural and managed ecosystems.

09/01/23
Author: 
The Associated Press
Some stormed the Congress building, climbing on top of its roof and breaking the glass in its windows. (Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images)

Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his electoral defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital on Sunday, just a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

05/01/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
The XBB.1.5 variant is not only highly immune evasive, even among those with boosters, but more effective at binding to human cells than other Omicron variants, say scientists. Photo by Joshua Berson.

Jan. 4, 2023

Emerging research on the COVID variant sounds alarms about contagiousness, severity and health-system impact.

A new COVID variant, dubbed “the Kraken” by some scientists, has exploded in the United States, accounting for 40 per cent of COVID cases in the northeast.

01/01/23
Author: 
Brad Wolf
Lewis Powell

This is not to reinforce the far-right conspiracy theories. This does not describe a "conspiracy" but part of the quite open and visible operating procedure of the ruling capitalist class in Canada as well as in the US. The only mystery is why we keep on allowing them to operate it. 

          -- Gene McGuckin

Dec. 15. 2022

01/01/23
Author: 
Justin Mikulka
Teaser photo credit: Active Permian Basin pumpjack east of Andrews, TX. By Zorin09 – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14607474

Dec. 20, 2022

It appears that the U.S. fracking boom is ending far earlier than many industry experts and CEOs predicted. After an understandable dip in 2020 due to the pandemic, oil production still has not regained the record levels achieved in 2019, and predictions that the industry would set new records this year have not materialized, despite 2022’s high oil prices.

01/01/23
Author: 
Warren Montag and Dimitris Givisis
Image Credit: Photo by wiredforlego via Flikr

Dec. 15, 2022

Warren Montag, in this interview with Dimitris Givisis, offers global perspectives for the current capitalist conjuncture.

31/12/22
Author: 
Henry Giroux
Photograph Source: Dawud Israel – CC BY 2.0

Dec. 16, 2022

The Politics and Culture of Cruelty

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