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2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.
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2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.

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The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025

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In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

12/29/2025 By Yale Climate Connections

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

12/29/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Change
No Sense of Urgency: Obama's New Solar Energy Commitments are still Just Baby Steps

No Sense of Urgency: Obama’s New Solar Energy Commitments are still Just Baby Steps

(By Juan Cole) President Obama has long expressed concern about climate change and its impacts, and was mocked by Mitt Romney for saying he wanted […]

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Human Rights
Calif. Republican Smears Arab-American Libertarian Congressman as  ‘al Qaeda’s best friend’

Calif. Republican Smears Arab-American Libertarian Congressman as ‘al Qaeda’s best friend’

Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash found himself the target of intra-party criticism again, as a California colleague accused him of not being serious about his position and lying about the country’s surveillance policies in an interview published…

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Climate Change
Top Ten Answers to global warming Deniers

Top Ten Answers to global warming Deniers

Posted on 6 May 2014 by dana1981 Roy Spencer is one of the less than 3% of climate scientists whose research suggests that humans are playing a relatively minimal role in global warming. As one of those rare contrarian climate experts, he’s often asked…

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Islam-hatred
How Myanmar’s government is making  Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse

How Myanmar’s government is making Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar — “For three days,” Khine recalls, “our town was hell.” As the 32-year-old waitress tells it, the nightmare began with masked men waving Buddhist banners. Then came vigilantes, with torches and blades, butchering families…

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Books
Washington Militarizes Foreign Policy, but cuts Fulbright Cultural Exchange

Washington Militarizes Foreign Policy, but cuts Fulbright Cultural Exchange

(By Ann Jones via Tomdispatch.com) Ignorance can be dangerous, as shown in a recent poll asking Americans what to do about the Ukraine crisis.  It […]

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Featured
Top 10 Reasons GOP Benghazi Witch Hunt is just a Campaign Fundraising Ploy

Top 10 Reasons GOP Benghazi Witch Hunt is just a Campaign Fundraising Ploy

(By Juan Cole) Since Obamacare is increasingly a wildly popular success, the GOP is flailing around looking for an issue, any issue to help fundraising […]

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Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain

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Africa
Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls (via AFP) A new Boko Haram massacre has killed hundreds in Nigeria’s northeast, a […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn The newly released National Climate Assessment spans 30 chapters with thousands of references on how climate change is impacting the U.S. The report took more than 300 scientists and 4 years to prepare, including addressing…

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