Climate Change

The Indian government is planning to order rideshare companies like Ola and Uber to convert 40 percent of their fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2026, according to a report from Reuters. According to sources and documents obtained from meetings, the autho…

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There will be as many as 12 Democratic presidential debates over the next year. But none of them will be devoted to climate change for now, anyway. Presidential candidate Jay Inslee who is running as a climate change candidate with a deeply developed plan to…

More Americans say "made-up" news and information is a very big problem in the US than say the same of climate change and other global threats, including illegal immigration, racism, and sexism, according to a new Pew Research poll. While 50% of Americans …

More Americans view made-up news as a 'very big problem' for the country, over terrorism, illegal immigration, racism, and sexism. A new Pew Research Center survey out Wednesday says 50% of Americans think fake news, a concept and term propagandized by Trump…

US President Donald Trump has helped kick off two days of D-Day observances by reading excerpts of a prayer that President Franklin Roosevelt read to the United States on June 6, 1944. (June 5) AP, AP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump continued to stir con…

Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has released his grand plan to fight climate change. Most people think it is silly. The progressives who’ve signed on to the “Green New Deal” complain O’Rourke’s plan doesn’t go far enough. Almost everyone else looks at it…

There are many things where there are two (or more!) sides to the story. Nazis is not one of them. Neither is climate change. And yet, here we are. On Wednesday, noted Donald Trump butt muncher Piers Morgan interviewed, well, Donald Trump. To Morgans credit,…

In 2018 alone, the United States suffered 14 natural disasters, each of which caused more than a billion dollars’ worth of damage. The final total: $91 billion overall, although not all of the devastation has been officially tallied. That includes deaths and …

The world’s biggest companies have started adding up the financial risks they face from climate change–and for 215 companies that disclosed those potential costs in a new report, the total financial impact could be nearly $1 trillion. Many of those costs coul…