Is Covid-19 Killing the Coal Industry in Egypt and around the World?
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-04-19
Egypt is one of the countries most vulnerable to the climate emergency and global heating…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-covid-19-killing-the-coal-industry-in-egypt-and-around-the-world/

Earth Day: How to Get Ships Off Fossil Fuels (webinar)
Pacific Environment & Climate Works Found. | indybay.org | 2020-04-19
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/19/18832492.php

Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-19
As the novel coronavirus continues to rage like a wildfire across the planet, its devastating toll has left many asking whether climate change

Earth Day: Climate Conversation w/ Elizabeth Colbert, Pulitzer Prize Author & Journalist
Seattle Arts & Lectures | indybay.org | 2020-04-19
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832470.php

Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-19
As the novel coronavirus continues to rage like a wildfire across the planet, its devastating toll has left many asking whether climate change

Earth Week Film: 'Wasted! The Story of Food Waste' Virtual Screening + Discussion (free)
One Earth Film Festival | indybay.org | 2020-04-19
Online streaming…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832473.php

David Attenborough issues a vital plea to 'cherish' our 'precious world'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-19
David Attenborough has urged people to "stop waste of any kind", saying the world is precious and should be "celebrated and cherished".The broadcaster and naturalist warned humans have a "last chance" to change their behaviour and save the planet, as he urged politicians to address "the biggest problem humanity has ever faced".In an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Attenborough said it will be the younger generation who will have to make changes because "they will be able to see the consequences of what they do". | He added: "My lot are dying off and we are the ones that caused the problem."He suggested p…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/04/19/david-attenborough-issues-a-vital-plea-to-cherish-our-precious-world/

Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it's easy to see how epidemiology came next.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic

The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-parched-west-is-heading-into-a-global-warming-fueled-megadrought-that-could-last-for-centuries

COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
We live on a crisis-struck planet where surplus lives are struggling to survive in the wastelands of a rapidly shrinking economic order. The specter of a wageless life now befalls the billions. | COVID-19, just beginning its rampage, is battering our feeble institutions, revealing and exacerbating preexisting social and racial vulnerabilities, and laying bare the inadequacies of even the most robust social safety nets. The U.S. is staring at its sharpest unemployment rise in history. | As
truthout.org/articles/covid-19-exposes-the-delicate-economic-balance-we-all-live-in-under-capitalism/

COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
We live on a crisis-struck planet where surplus lives are struggling to survive in the wastelands of a rapidly shrinking economic order. The specter of a wageless life now befalls the billions. | COVID-19, just beginning its rampage, is battering our feeble institutions, revealing and exacerbating preexisting social and racial vulnerabilities, and laying bare the inadequacies of even the most robust social safety nets. The U.S. is staring at its sharpest unemployment rise in history. | As
truthout.org/articles/covid-19-exposes-the-delicate-economic-balance-we-all-live-in-under-capitalism/

Ukrainian capital Kiev engulfed in smog from wildfires near Chernobyl
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
The fires expose the fact that the world's worst nuclear catastrophe remains unresolved and continues to threaten the health of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/ukra-a18.html

5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn
Lorraine Chow | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
This article was originally published in 2016. | Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject Monsanto's attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country's food and farming systems. | One-hundred organizations representing more than …
globalresearch.ca/5-million-nigerians-oppose-monsantos-plans-introduce-gmo-cotton-corn/5709977

Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-14
An immunocompromised Wisconsin man in his 70s died from an infection with a strain of Legionella bacteria traced to water supplies in his home, according to a CDC report.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764467

Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
What we–citizens, corporations, courts and government–do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/civil-disobedience-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis/

First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/first-u-s-union-authorized-climate-strike/