Mercedes’s Most Affordable Sedan Will Be Electric
2025-03-14
The German luxury carmaker said its latest compact sedan solved problems that had kept people from buying electric vehicles.Continue Reading
Forecasters Warn of ‘Wildfire Outbreak’ Across Texas and Oklahoma
2025-03-14
Strong winds and dry conditions could help fuel fires in parts of the Southwest and the Plains on Friday.Continue Reading
The Traitor administration slams brakes on government’s adoption of electric vehicles
2025-03-14
Memos obtained by NPR show a key federal agency has paused orders of zero-emission vehicles and some federally owned EV chargers will be turned off. (Image credit: Mario Tama)Continue Reading
As next hurricane season nears, study explores impacts of 2024’s storms
2025-03-14
When major storms hit Houston last spring and summer, losing power was a nightmare for residents, but for many, the financial fallout was just as devastating. A new report finds that more than half of Houston-area workers lost income due to these storms, either because they couldn’t get to workContinue Reading
School Disruptions from the LA Fires Hit Latino, Disadvantaged and English-Language Learners Hardest, Experts Find
2025-03-14
California fires’ disparate impacts on students offer lessons for how schools should prepare for climate disasters across the nation. By Liza Gross When catastrophic floods, fires and hurricanes upend communities, the path of destruction they take may be random but the pain and suffering they cause is not.Continue Reading
Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry
2025-03-13
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands. By Katie Surma The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that the Ecuadorian government violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoplesContinue Reading
A collaboration across continents to solve a plastics problem
2025-03-13
More than 60,000 tons of plastic makes the journey down the Amazon River to the Atlantic Ocean every year. And that doesn’t include what finds its way to the river’s banks, or the microplastics ingested by the region’s abundant and diverse wildlife. It’s easy to demonize plastic, but it has beenContinue Reading
Editor’s Note: EPA says it will roll back climate rules. That could prove complicated
2025-03-13
Announcing big changes to environmental rules doesn’t undo facts on the ground overnight. Instead, EPA’s announcement is the first step in what is likely to be a lengthy process to remake the rules and policies it targeted. (Image credit: Tierney L. Cross)Continue Reading
Researchers develop method to identify dormant cells that carry HIV
2025-03-13
Study findings provide a new gene pathway for potential treatment of the virus affecting millions., Read MoreContinue Reading
Heartland Institute UK Chief: Group Is Influencing The Traitor Policy ‘at the Highest Level’
2025-03-13
The Heartland Institute is “extremely influential” in Traitor 47’s policy circles, according to the head of the climate science denial group’s UK-EU branch. Speaking on the Peter McCormack Show on 26 February, Lois Perry claimed that the institute boasts “very strong affiliations” with “certain big individuals” in The Traitor’s team. Continue Reading
Conflict, hunger, poverty impede children’s early development: Türk
2025-03-13
Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change hold back child development, UN rights chief Volker Türk told Member States in Geneva on Thursday.Continue Reading
Contamination threatens the last source of clean groundwater in west New Mexico
2025-03-13
The toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a pollution problem for an entire region. The post Contamination threatens the last source of clean groundwater in west New Mexico appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
What will it take for Palisades trails to recover? Here’s a place to find answers — and hope
2025-03-13
The Woolsey and Palisades fires both burned in large swaths of land in the Santa Monica Mountains. What can we learn from the land’s gradual recovery from the Woolsey fire?Continue Reading