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High tide of protests worldwide

Politics--alas--is what we need

Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said

Cuba’s past, present, future

In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won. It doesn’t have to be this way.

This is only the beginning. This is what three decades of inaction and insufficient action have produced. Ludicrous would be allowing the US, under the grasp of a handful of villainous, ecocide billionaires and ideologues, to drag us into the abyss

This summer’s fires are more than just a wake-up call. They are a five-alarm emergency alert. The least we can demand of our political leaders is that they stop dismantling the only tools we have to fight the incineration of our world.

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

It may sound like all is lost. On the contrary: Solutions abound, and there are many reasons for hope.