(2020-04-18). #ClimateStrike: Virtual Protest Against Chase Bank to #Stop The Money Pipeline. indybay.org Online protest actions…
(2020-04-18). Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic. mronline.org 
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it's easy to see how epidemiology came next.
(2020-04-18). The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries. mronline.org 
Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.
(2020-04-18). Freedom of Assembly is Sick. indybay.org For decades, this country was governed as if the climate crisis were a myth. However, it favors natural disasters and diseases that are difficult or impossible to treat. The denial of these problems and the refusal to deal with the destructive effects of capitalism are the reason why the USA is particularly ill-equipped to face future challenges.
(2020-04-18). COVID-19 Exposes the Delicate Economic Balance We All Live in Under Capitalism. truthout.org 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 <...
(2020-04-18). Ukrainian capital Kiev engulfed in smog from wildfires near Chernobyl. wsws.org The fires expose the fact that the world's worst nuclear catastrophe remains unresolved and continues to threaten the health of the population.
(2020-04-17). A Big Oil Bailout Would Be the Opposite of the Green New Deal We Need. truthout.org It's been a wild couple of weeks in the oil markets. Following a price war between major petrostates, the price of oil has tanked. Ever since, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been desperately trying to save a deeply indebted oil industry. We can all but expect a Trump-led bailout for Big Oil. Instead, our law and policy makers should let the oil producers fail, and devote resources to stave off the next crisis — the climate crisis — before it gets even worse. | The ongoin…
(2020-04-17). Up against COVID-19, environmental activism goes digital for 50th annual Earth Day. peoplesworld.org 
Many people have fought for a union, good wages, and strong benefits, especially health insurance. People have successfully defended a stream here or land there. While very important, none of those gains will stop climate change, pollution, wars, and pandemics. The interrelationships between these maladies have bubbled to the surface in these COVID-19 times. That …
(2020-04-17). Stir Crazy! Episode #16: The Ineptitude of Power. therealnews.com 
Episode #16 of Stir Crazy, on The Real News Network. Political consultant Marcus Ferrell talks with TRNN Climate Reporter Steve Horn and Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray about how Big Pharma and others are taking advantage of COVID-19. Hosted by TRNN reporter Kim Brown.
(2020-04-17). 5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn. globalresearch.ca 
This article was originally published in 2016. | Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject One-hundred organizations representing more than …
(2020-04-17). Emerging Climate-Fueled Megadrought in Western US Rivals Any Over Past 1,200 Years: Study. commondreams.org "We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we're on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-860067511.jpg …
(2020-04-17). As Food Banks Face Shortages and Fresh Produce Rots, Pandemic Spurs Calls for Sustainable Supply Chain. commondreams.org U.S. food pantries have faced unprecedented demand while billions of dollars in produce has gone to waste due to supply chain disruptions from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—conditions that are renewing calls for reforms to make the nation's food systems more localized, resilient, and sustainable. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12188626381.jpg …
(2020-04-14). Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination. jamanetwork.com 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.
(2020-04-13). Noam Chomsky On COVID-19 And His New Book: Internationalism Or Extinction. therealnews.com 
Noam Chomsky analyzes the coronavirus pandemic in the context of neoliberal capitalism's failures, climate change, potential nuclear disaster, and Donald Trump's authoritarianism.
(2020-04-11). Trump policies kill birds: Why it matters. liberationnews.org 
How can we stop bird decline and climate change?
(2020-04-11). Climate Crisis: Bye Bye Bernie, Big Oil Secrecy, California Fracking and Wildfires. therealnews.com 
California issued 24 new fracking permits as a new study says the state's wildfire season is now twice as long. And the youth climate movement issued demands for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
(2020-04-04). Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis. zcomm.org What we—citizens, corporations, courts and government—do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
(2020-04-04). First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike? zcomm.org 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…
(2020-04-03). Technological Solution to Food Crisis? projectcensored.org Entrepreneurs and investors are looking for ways to grow enough food in a world of climate change and diminishing resources. | Some propose making "food out of air," according to "Food without Fields?" The article, published in the autumn 2019 issue of Earth Island Journal, presumes the best way to protect ecosystems is to take farming out of them — and put food production in the lab. That's a big presumption, and its implication is that there's no cost-effective and ecologically sound way to keep the farm in the field. But evidence is showing that agriculture—when aligned with ecological principles[m…
(2020-04-03). Unions Disregard Call for Large Scale Climate Action Strikes. projectcensored.org Students are leading the way with Global Climate Strikes across the country to persuade the government and leaders of the country to take impactful action to remedy the current climate…
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org 
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
(2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …
(2019-07-24). MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with XR. peoplesparty.org 
with Extinction Rebellion climate activists | MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with Extinction Rebellion climate activists after supergluing themselves to Congress in mass civil disobedience: | Washington, D.C. — Movement for a People's Party National Director Nick Brana was arrested during a protest to block Congress and demand that they join the countries of the UK and Canada and declare a climate emergency. | Brana and 15 people affiliated with the climate action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) glued themselves to three underground tunnel entrances leading to the Capitol, blocking access…