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Let's use this Thanksgiving as an opportunity for optimism on climate change.

Democrats keep control of the Senate, but key House races are still being decided. We'll discuss what state and local results mean for climate change.

Investigative reporter Mark Hertsgaard, author of the new book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth was on Democracy Now! On Friday.  He has been investigating climate change since the ‘90s, but was motivated to ramp up his reporting after he met with British government scientists in 2005.  They explained that we have already reached the tipping point at which

The last 12 months have produced alarming incidents of extreme weather across the globe, leading to serious ripple effects, from energy shortages to severe food insecurity. Guardian journalists are prioritising this foremost crisis of our times

/PRNewswire/ -- EVENT: Up2Us2022: Strategies and Solutions to Save the Coolest Planet in the Universe VENUE: New York Society for Ethical Culture, Adler Hall,...

Just so long as they dont end up on a wall in Moscow, right?

Poor countries face some of the greatest challenges from climate change — and apathy from their richest global cousins.

Americans’ trust in the media has reached all time lows, with just 11 percent expressing confidence in television news and 16 percent expressing confidence in newspapers. These are the startling findings of Gallup’s latest survey of American attitudes about the media, which since 1972 has tracked the ups and downs of public confidence in the news.

Anyone in journalism who wants to regain that trust would do well to read American Dispatches and internalize the lessons that Robert Parry offers, writes Nat Parry. By Nat Parry Special to Consortium News Americans’ trust in the media has reached all time lows, with just 11 percent expres

ONE day at the height of the punk era, Paul McCartney and his wife Linda were in traffic in London’s West End when a gang of aggressive-looking…