The Media's Covid-19 Coverage Proves It Could Also Spotlight the Climate Crisis
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-03-25
The Media's Covid-19 Coverage Proves It Could Also Spotlight the Climate Crisis…
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The Media's Covid-19 Coverage Proves It Could Also Spotlight Climate Crisis
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-03-25
The Media's Covid-19 Coverage Proves It Could Also Spotlight Climate Crisis…
thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-media-climate/

Wildflowers moving north as climate changes, citizen survey shows
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-25
Wildflowers are moving northwards as temperatures rise, prompting calls to manage landscapes to make space for plants in the face of climate change.Results from the first five years of the government-funded National Plant Monitoring Scheme, using data from 15,000 surveys by volunteer citizen scientists, already shows the impact of a warming world on the UK's plants.The data reveals that plants such as wild orchids are expanding their range northwards, experts said.The National Plant Monitoring Scheme looks at 30 different habitats, from woodland and hedgerows to blanket bogs and streams, with around 30 wild flowe…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/03/25/wildflowers-moving-north-as-climate-changes-citizen-survey-shows/

Wildflowers moving north as climate changes, citizen survey shows
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-25
Wildflowers are moving northwards as temperatures rise, prompting calls to manage landscapes to make space for plants in the face of climate change.Results from the first five years of the government-funded National Plant Monitoring Scheme, using data from 15,000 surveys by volunteer citizen scientists, already shows the impact of a warming world on the UK's plants.The data reveals that plants such as wild orchids are expanding their range northwards, experts said.The National Plant Monitoring Scheme looks at 30 different habitats, from woodland and hedgerows to blanket bogs and streams, with around 30 wild flowe…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/03/25/wildflowers-moving-north-as-climate-changes-citizen-survey-shows/

Online Event: Invisible Threats: COVID-19 and Climate Change (live stream)
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-03-25
Online live stream event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/23/18831746.php

The Coronavirus and the Urgent Need to Redefine National Security
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-25
For far too long, the United States has been wastefully spending its precious budgetary resources on a nineteenth-century military strategy and a strategic arms policy that has brought no advantages to the American people. For the past three decades, our national security policies have been ineffectual and irrelevant to the genuine threats we face today. These threats do not emanate from Russia or China. Rather, they stem from an underfunded and highly vulnerable public health system, a cyber world that is out of control, and a crumbling infrastructure. In 2017, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave a grad…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/25/the-coronavirus-and-the-urgent-need-to-redefine-national-security/

'Huge Victory' for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court Rules DAPL Permits Violated Law
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-25
A federal judge handed down a major victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota on Wednesday, ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act by approving federal permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/oceti-sakowin-camp_1.jpg …
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New Analysis Highlights Dangers of Fracking Bailout
commondreams.org | 2020-03-24
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/03/24/new-analysis-highlights-dangers-fracking-bailout?cd-origin=rss

A Pandemic Comes to the U.S
Lawrence Davidson | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-24
Part I–Uncomprehending and Unprepared On 10 March 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in reference to the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), "It will go away, just stay calm." He added, "It's really working out. And a lot of good things are going to happen." (This is also the president's attitude toward global warming.) When soon…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/24/a-pandemic-comes-to-the-u-s/

Observing Elites Manipulate Our Fear: COVID-19, Propaganda and Knowledge
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-24
While humans stand on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, with the prospects of now averting this remote

BlackRock Must Manage for Climate Risk as it Takes On Fed Debt Buyout Program
commondreams.org | 2020-03-24
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The Conquerors of America
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-24
Patrick Weidhaas, a colleague of mine from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and also a colleague from the union group there (Society of Professional Scientists and Engineers) sent me a note saying: You may remember Ben Santer from the Lab, one of the foremost climate scientists. He just published an article in the online Scientific…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/24/the-conquerors-of-america/

'Count every drop, every drop counts': UN weather agency calls for better water data on World Meteorological Day
news.un.org | 2020-03-23
Floods, extreme rainfall, droughts and melting glaciers…many of the major signs of climate change involve water. On this year's World Meteorological Day, the UN weather agency (WMO) is reinforcing the message of World Water Day, by focusing on the links between climate and water, and calling for better water-related data.
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World Water Day: Often overlooked, water resources are essential part of solution to climate change
news.un.org | 2020-03-22
On World Water Day, the United Nations launched a flagship report which says that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require major shifts in the way we use and reuse the Earth's limited water resources.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1059952

[Comment] No time to waste: preventing tuberculosis in children
Jonathon R Campbell, Mayara L Bastos | thelancet.com | 2020-03-21
Tuberculosis takes the life of one in five children developing the disease.1 Data from the pre-chemotherapy era suggest very young children are at highest risk for tuberculosis after exposure, and highly susceptible to the most severe forms of the disease.2,3 As a result, tuberculosis control efforts among children in high-burden countries are focused on those below 5 years of age.2 One of the most important efforts is provision of tuberculosis preventive therapy after tuberculosis exposure, yet only one in four children below 5 years of age who might benefit from life-saving preventive therapy will receive it.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30532-8/fulltext?rss=yes

From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia is Creating the Next Fallujah in Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-20
From dumping toxic waste into the sea to littering Yemen's farms with tons of unexploded cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia is creating a legacy so toxic in Yemen that experts believe it could take a century to undo.
mintpressnews.com/cluster-bombs-toxic-waste-saudi-arabia-deadly-legacy-yemen/265897/

Climate crisis demands revolution in firefighting
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-20
Climate crisis Bob McIlroy Jim McIlroyIssue 1257 Australia bushfires firefightersMarch 20, 2020Bob McIlroy is a small farmer in the…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-crisis-demands-revolution-firefighting

Turns out, it's OK to override private interest in the name of social need after all
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-20
Climate crisis Economy Healthcare Carlo SandsIssue 1257 Australia Carlo's CornerMarch 20, 2020When faced with a global pandemic tha…
greenleft.org.au/content/turns-out-its-ok-override-private-interest-name-social-need-after-all

"Something Is Wrong in America": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Michael Eric Dyson Debate Sanders v Biden
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-16
Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders faced off in their first one-on-one debate Sunday night in the midst of an unprecedented national crisis, with 3,600 reported COVID-19 cases, 61 deaths so far, 33 states closing schools and mass shutdowns in major cities. The rivals clashed on how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, Medicare for All, the climate crisis, Joe Biden's record and whether or not the U.S. needs a revolution. We play highlights from the debate and get responses from scholars Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Michael Eric Dyson. Taylor is assistant professor of African-America…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/16/keeanga_yamahtta_taylor_michael_eric_dyson

Could the climate crisis be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-03-02
There really is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/