Americans scramble to adapt to daily reality of climate crisis
Heat and wildfire smoke force residents to seek respite – and buy cooling systems and air purifiers, if they can afford them
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Cities in U.S. erupt as Breonna Taylor decision inflames racial divide
America's streets are again pulsing with anger and frustration, this time over the deadly police shooting of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor ⏤ and a survey suggests the racial reckoning appears more popular in Canada than in the United States.
Bernie Sanders puts Trump on notice: 'You are not going to destroy' U.S. democracy
Progressive firebrand Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Americans to come to their country's rescue on Thursday, September 23, 2020, a call aimed at saving democracy from a U.S. president he's convinced is bent on destroying it.
U.S. voters want to use climate change policies to rebuild the economy after COVID
A poll conducted by VICE News and several partners shows that voters want job training for workers who left the fossil fuel industry as well as a carbon tax.
Fires burn the west, as top Democrats stay quiet on the climate crisis
Nancy Pelosi has been notably tepid on green legislation – so are the Democrats serious about fighting climate change?
Climate change could cause a financial crisis, U.S. regulators are waking up to this
For the first time in U.S. history, a federal regulatory agency has put out a report recognizing climate change as a major threat to the economy.
The phrase 'natural disaster' is going up in smoke
You expect to see the phrase natural disaster all over the news when hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic explosions, floods, or fires cause a lot of deaths and property damage. This fire season, however, politicians and other people are beginning to ditch natural disaster for phrases that are more specific — and more accurate.
Trump's bewildering solution for California wildfires : 'It Will Start Getting Cooler'
"I wish science agreed with you," California official Wade Crowfoot told the president.
‘Climate arsonist’: Biden slams Trump’s west coast wildfire response with a new insult
“It’ll start getting cooler, you just watch,” he said, in response to a question from the state’s natural resources secretary. When challenged on this statement, Trump retorted, “I don’t think science knows, actually.”
Oregon’s air quality is so far beyond ‘hazardous’ that no one knows what it will mean for health
In some parts of Oregon this week, the air got so smoky that it maxed out the scale used by the Environmental Protection Agency to measure hazardous air quality.
Investors managing US$47 trillion demand world’s biggest polluters support plan for net-zero emissions
Climate Action 100+ group put 161 fossil fuel, mining, transport and other big-emitting companies on notice in latest campaign by shareholders
“It’ll Start Getting Cooler”: Trump responds to west coast wildfires by denying climate change
Trump’s claims about climate science were false.
Right-Wing conspiracists linked Antifa to the wildfires. Then Russian media gave them a boost.
How overlapping false claims about the wildfires ricocheted around conservative social media thanks to a bogus story from Russia.
With just over a month to the election, Trump bans offshore drilling in three Republican states
“This protects your beautiful Gulf and your beautiful ocean, and it will for a long time to come,” Trump said in a speech in Jupiter touting his environmental record
The science of light and California's orange skies
Sure, it was wildfire smoke that made parts of California and Oregon change hue. But inside that smoke was alchemy—the chemistry and physics of molecules and wavelengths.