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18/01/23
Author: 
Caitlin Johnstone
Dec. 9, 2019: From left: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting in Paris for negotiations aimed at ending the war in the Donbass. (Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Jan. 8, 2023

18/01/23
Author: 
Jake Johnson
A demonstrator is seen holding a sign at a climate protest in Manhattan on October 29, 2021. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Jan. 18, 2023

"It is business as usual for most banks and investors who continue to support fossil fuel developers without any restrictions, despite their high-profile commitments to carbon neutrality."

Top banks in the United States and around the world have made a show of embracing net-zero emissions pledges, portraying themselves as allies in the fight against the global climate emergency.

15/01/23
Author: 
Oliver Milman
Around a third of US households have gas stoves in their kitchens. Photograph: Tomas Rodriguez/Getty Images

Jan. 11, 2023

Emission of toxic chemicals and carcinogens from gas stoves creating indoor pollution worse than car traffic

About one in eight cases of asthma in children in the US is due to the pollution given off by cooking on gas stoves, new research has found, amid moves by Joe Biden’s administration to consider the regulation, or even banning, of gas cookers sales to Americans.

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

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