• Environment • Science

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    The Guardian

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    Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths

    Sharon Lerner

    ProPublica

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  • Environment

    Dark Forces are Preventing us from Fighting the Climate Crisis

    George Monbiot

    The Guardian

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  • Environment • Recommended • Science

    When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change

    David Fenton

    FrameLab

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  • Environment • Global • Science

    How Joe Rogan Misleads Listeners About Climate Change

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    Attention to the Unseen

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  • Environment

    On Staying Grounded

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    The Pause

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  • Environment • Health • Russia

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    Counterpunch

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  • Environment • Global • Science • Social Justice and Equity

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    Nell Greenfieldboyce

    NPR

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  • Environment • Human Rights • Recommended • Safety • Science

    The Future Is Coming and It’s (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

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  • Environment • Fascism • Financial • Health • Personal Resilience • Recommended • Science • Social Justice and Equity • Technology

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    Bioneers

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  • Environment • Health • Personal Resilience • Recommended • Social Justice and Equity

    In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

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  • Environment • Health • Safety

    Americans Should Be More Afraid of Climate Change

    Mark Hertsgaard

    The Nation

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  • Artificial Intelligence • Environment • Health

    Nation of Fear

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

  • Environment • Press Freedom

    Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

    Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

    Columbia Journalism Review

    Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

  • Environment • Regulations • Science

    Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    Edwin Lyman

    Utility Dive

    The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

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