Latest Climate Report a ‘Code Red for Humanity’
Less than a decade remains to avoid potentially catastrophic impacts of a warming planet, according to the latest report from the world’s top scientists. Hilda Nucete, organizer with…
Climate Crisis Has Cost Colorado Billions of Dollars
More than a decade after the Fourmile Canyon blaze drove even the firefighters out of Gold Hill, blackened hillsides and scorched trees attest to the Colorado mountain town’s close shave…
The World’s Climate Is in Our Hands
In 30 years, history books will mention August 9, 2021 as a crucial date in the fight against the climate crisis. That day, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on…
For Latinos, the Climate Crisis Flames Burn Hotter
The warnings from Pachamama, our Mother Earth, about our abusing the only habitable planet we know are growing in intensity. The US Northwest and Canada’s Southwest have suffered the…
Fighting Global Warming Requires An Equity Approach
Bigger wildfires, more frequent heat waves, longer summers, more intense droughts and warmer seas. Climate change is speeding up, making life harder for Americans, reports the Environmental Protection Agency…
The Climate Crisis Is a Crime That Should Be Prosecuted
Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene. This crime has been going on for decades. We see its effects in the horrific heat and wildfires…
Oil and the Future Don’t Mix
Javier Sierra It has been a very lousy spring for Big Oil, with a historic string of upsets. The first one took place in the Netherlands, where…
Essentially Heroic Women
Javier Sierra The next time that you eat fruits or vegetables, thank the campesinas whose back-breaking labor under inhumane conditions bring them to your table. Extreme heat, pesticide exposure,…
Oppose Pollution: Support Environmental Legislation
by Luis A. Torres, Ph.D. If you breathed air today and/or drank water, thank the environment. If you breathed clear and clean and fresh air, and you drank pure…
They Are Afraid of Us
Javier Sierra After the most secure election that saw the highest voter turnout in history, Republican governors and state legislators are making it clear they are afraid of us,…