Month: October 2020

A U.S. air strike on a village in Eastern Afghanistan killed three civilians—a woman and two children—the Afghan president’s office revealed Tuesday. Local officials say “Civilians Dead in US Bombing: Afghan Officials”

Insurance industry leaders have declared it is now clear that insurers must begin formally including climate change in their calculation of future catastrophes to protect “Insurance Industry: It's Time to Start Calculating Cost of Climate 'Catastrophe'”

Thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed into the streets of a Los Angeles area neighborhood on Thursday following the rupture of an above ground “Pipeline Bursts in LA Neighborhood Spewing Thousands of Gallons of Crude”

Amid criticism, Brazil this month gave the OK to its first commercial release of genetically modified mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever. The “Brazil Greenlights Plan to Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes”

A small amount of ice in the East Antarctic holding back an area of marine ice like a “cork” is at risk from climate change, “Global Warming Threatens 'Unstoppable' Sea Level Rise”

Decrying what they say are Chevron’s crimes against humanity, communities across five continents are rising up on Wednesday in an international day of action against “No More Impunity! Communities Worldwide Protest 'Gangster Corporation' Chevron”

American poet and author Maya Angelou, who lived through and helped chronicle the civil rights movement in the U.S., has died at the age of “Poet and Author Maya Angelou Has Died”

Sharing a stage with French economist Thomas Piketty on Monday night in Boston, Sen. Elizabeth Warren discussed a range issues related to economic inequality during “Climate Change, Economic Inequality Are One Debate, says Sen. Warren”

Cartographers working on the latest edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World say that Arctic sea ice loss is the greatest visible change “Arctic Sea Ice Loss Prompts Biggest Change to Maps 'Since Breakup of USSR'”

The internal strife and civil war spurred by the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 is escalating rapidly. The Sunni militia that has staked a “Bloody Legacy of US Invasion as Tattered Iraq Teeters on Edge”