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Oil spill leaking into Gulf of Mexico for 14 years creates enormous natural...

On Sept. 15, 2004, Hurricane Ivan, traveling through the Gulf of Mexico, toppled a Taylor Energy Company oil platform into the water. As columnist Fred Grimm notes in a piece in the South Florida Sun...

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It's not just poverty and violence driving refugees to the U.S. border. It's...

Over the past three weeks, a migrant group that started with fewer than 200 people grew into thousands as it wound its way through Honduras, Guatemala, and now Mexico, headed for El Norte, the United...

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Vote like the world depends on it. Because it really, really does.

The few hundred families still a thousand miles away from the US border are absolutely no cause for alarm. The tens of millions who will be forced from their homes by climate change definitely are. On...

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Could telemedicine be the future for women’s health care?

This post was written by freelance contributor Sandra Salathe through our  Daily Kos freelance program.It’s common knowledge that being a woman comes with its own set of challenges. But since the Trump...

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Trump administration moves to lease 65 million acres of public waters for...

One of the nice little additions to the Republican money-grab-for-billionaires tax bill last year was to open up all kinds of oil and mineral drilling of wildlife areas and untouched natural...

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The world's highest glaciers on top of Mount Everest are melting because of...

The overall temperature of our planet has been rising for some time now. It’s the basis for the scientific environmental term “global warming.” In recent years, there has been a push to re-brand global...

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Major U.S. report says climate change not a far-off concern, but causing...

No doubt with the intent of deep-sixing it on one of the deadest news days of the year, the Trump regime announced Wednesday that the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II would be released today,...

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Trump on his government's climate report: 'I don't believe it'

Despite the fact that it was released on perhaps the deadest news day of the entire year the major climate report, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II produced by the U.S. Global Change...

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Trump's latest gibberish should spur every Democratic candidate and incumbent...

You just know that one of these days the pitiful excuse for “leader of the free world” squatting in the White House is going to flat-out label climate scientists “hysterical.” That’s what you get when...

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This week in space: Nuclear rockets, Virgin times two, Soyuz gets ready to...

During the 1960s, America was intent on building a nuclear rocket. The idea may seem terrifying, but this wouldn’t have been a system that blasted nuclear waste across the land. A nuclear thermal...

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Studies show climate action can't wait. That means sweeping aside deniers,...

Disturbing climate studies, like wildfires and extreme weather, have appeared one after another this past year. Disturbing not because they are telling us anything really new, but rather that they...

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Five Questions for Sunrise co-founder Varshini Prakash about climate activism...

The concept of the Sunrise Movement arose out of discussions begun in 2015 by organizers who had been working in various parts of the climate movement, from fossil fuel divestment to building political...

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Oil spill leaking into Gulf of Mexico for 14 years creates enormous natural...

On Sept. 15, 2004, Hurricane Ivan, traveling through the Gulf of Mexico, toppled a Taylor Energy Company oil platform into the water. As columnist Fred Grimm notes in a piece in the South Florida Sun...

View Article


It's not just poverty and violence driving refugees to the U.S. border. It's...

Over the past three weeks, a migrant group that started with fewer than 200 people grew into thousands as it wound its way through Honduras, Guatemala, and now Mexico, headed for El Norte, the United...

View Article

Vote like the world depends on it. Because it really, really does.

The few hundred families still a thousand miles away from the US border are absolutely no cause for alarm. The tens of millions who will be forced from their homes by climate change definitely are. On...

View Article


Could telemedicine be the future for women’s health care?

This post was written by freelance contributor Sandra Salathe through our  Daily Kos freelance program.It’s common knowledge that being a woman comes with its own set of challenges. But since the Trump...

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Trump administration moves to lease 65 million acres of public waters for...

One of the nice little additions to the Republican money-grab-for-billionaires tax bill last year was to open up all kinds of oil and mineral drilling of wildlife areas and untouched natural...

View Article


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The world's highest glaciers on top of Mount Everest are melting because of...

The overall temperature of our planet has been rising for some time now. It’s the basis for the scientific environmental term “global warming.” In recent years, there has been a push to re-brand global...

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Major U.S. report says climate change not a far-off concern, but causing...

No doubt with the intent of deep-sixing it on one of the deadest news days of the year, the Trump regime announced Wednesday that the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II would be released today,...

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Trump on his government's climate report: 'I don't believe it'

Despite the fact that it was released on perhaps the deadest news day of the entire year the major climate report, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II produced by the U.S. Global Change...

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