by Komoneed | Dec 9, 2024
The Burning Earth is Yale history professor Sunil Amrith’s fifth book, and his first that focuses his academic eye on the climate crisis. “As a citizen and then as a parent,” he says, “the climate crisis just became unavoidable in my mind.” His first books, notably Crossing the Bay of Bengal and Unruly Waters, focused […]
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by Komoneed | Dec 8, 2024
The small North Carolina town of Carrboro has initiated the country’s first climate accountability litigation against an electric utility. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, claims Duke Energy waged a “deception campaign” in order to obscure the climate hazards of fossil fuels. This led to delayed action in curbing planet-warming emissions, which caused the costs of […]
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by Komoneed | Dec 8, 2024
Jeep has responded to the launch of the Ford Puma Gen-E by reducing the price of its Avenger EV to the same level.
by Komoneed | Dec 8, 2024
The scars left by severe wildfires across Oregon’s forests are not only a reminder of nature’s power but also of the critical need for immediate and decisive action to prevent future disasters. Dead and dying trees—referred to as snags—pose severe
by Komoneed | Dec 6, 2024
Testimony from the United States during the ongoing International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing on Wednesday evoked anger from climate activists and vulnerable nations, as the planet’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter argued against nations being legally obligated to take measures to fight the climate crisis. The oral arguments were part of the historic climate hearing […]
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