Review of Peter Schwartzstein, The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence (London: Footnote Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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The Words the US and European Press are too Cowardly to Use about Israel’s Occupation of Palestinians: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Apartheid
( Middle East Monitor ) – On 20 February, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an […]
The EV Transition isn’t just about Cars – the broader Goal should be Access to clean Mobility for Everyone
By Sita M. Syal, University of Michigan | (The Conversation) – The race to decarbonize passenger cars and light-duty trucks in the U.S. is accelerating. […]
Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes […]
Climate Emergency: Extreme Heat Waves will increase 600% in Israel, Middle East, over 80 years, as 70% of Youth consider Emigrating
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ruth Schuster at Haaretz reports on a new study led by Assaf Hochmann at Hebrew University, finding that extreme heat […]
Derailments across the Country: Rail Workers Warned Us that Greed Is Dangerous
By Rebekah Entralgo | – ( Otherwords.org ) – The toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are […]
Israel submits Plans for 7,000 new Squatter-Settlement Units in Palestinian West Bank
( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli occupation authorities have submitted plans to build 7,157 new settlement units in the E1 area that would bisect Palestinian […]
Planting more Trees could reduce Heat-Related Deaths in Cities by a Third
By Meelan Thondoo, University of Cambridge; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Australian Catholic University; and Tamara Iungman, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) | – (The Conversation) – […]
Top 6 Exciting Wind Power Developments in US, as investment in Offshore Wind Triples and Wind Generates 10% of US Electricity
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Renewable energy continues to burgeon rapidly in the United States. Here are some of the signs of a major transformation […]
$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar
By Ludvig Wier, University of Copenhagen and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley | – (The Conversation) – About a decade ago, the world’s biggest […]
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