(2021-04-12). 'Only the Beginning': Citing Climate and Investment Risks, NY State Pension Fund to Ditch Tar Sands. commondreams.org "Kudos to Tom DiNapoli for making it clear that you can't build your retirement on tar sands." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/divest-ny-tar-sands.jpg …
(2021-04-12). How Humanity Can Realistically Prevent New Wars: an Interview With Anthropologist Douglas P. Fry. counterpunch.org 
We live in a time in which we face many global challenges, including the climate disaster, dwindling biodiversity (due to international industrial practices), polluted oceans, nuclear proliferation and a worldwide pandemic, just for starters. Realistic solutions to the hurdles humanity faces will require international cooperation—which will require the adoption of viable alternatives to the predominant
(2021-04-12). Dear Media, Let's Treat the Climate Emergency Like the Pandemic Emergency. thenation.com Dear Media, Let's Treat the Climate Emergency Like the Pandemic Emergency…
(2021-04-12). Rosa Luxemburg and postcolonial criticism. mronline.org 
Her understanding of oppression was bolstered by personal circumstances: female in an overwhelmingly male public sphere, Jewish in a climate of vicious antisemitism, Polish at a time when Poles suffered national oppression, and an individual who lived with a disability. | April 12, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-04-12). China and climate change: an exchange. mronline.org 
In the Notes from the Editors to the March 2021 issue of Monthly Review, the MR editors questioned some of the arguments in Richard Smith's book, China's Engine of Environmental Collapse, as well as replied to Simon Pirani's related criticisms (writing under his pseudonym of Gabriel Levy) of MR editor John Bellamy Foster on China […] | April 12, 2021 | Exchange…
(2021-04-12). Remembering LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder Helped Lead 2016 Anti-DAPL Uprising. democracynow.org 
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian, has died of cancer at the age of 64, and we look back on her work, through interviews on her land and in the Democracy Now! studio. Allard co-founded the Sacred Stone Camp on Standing Rock Sioux land in April 2016 to resist the Dakota Access pipeline, to which people from around the world traveled, making it one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous peoples in a century. "We say mni wiconi, water of life. Every time we drink water, we say mni wiconi, water of life. We cannot live without water," LaDonna Brave Bull Allard said in a September 2016 i…
(2021-04-12). Global Citizens' Assembly Planned To Address Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org London – People around the world will have a chance to deliberate about responses to climate change under plans to convene a "Global Citizens' Assembly" to inform U.N. talks in Glasgow next year, organisers said on Thursday. | The project aims to build on similar initiatives in countries such as Ireland, France and Canada, where citizens' assemblies have given politicians space to act by generating ambitious proposals on divisive issues. | "Young people are not just frustrated by rising temperatures and declining ecosystems. We're also frustrated by the constant recycling of outdated political solutions," said Su…
(2021-04-12). Investing in Destruction: California Teachers Pension Money Should Not Be Funding Line 3. commondreams.org For years organizations have been calling on pension funds to divest from fossil fuels due to environmental racism and the climate impact of these investments. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/stopline3.jpg …
(2021-04-12). New Poll: Americans Support Climate Financial Reforms. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-04-12). US Voters Support Strong Government and Corporate Action to Curb Wall Street's Climate Impacts. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-04-12). Media Coalition Declares That Journalism Should Reflect 'Climate Emergency Is Here'. commondreams.org "Why 'emergency'? Because words matter. To preserve a livable planet, humanity must take action immediately." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12299345251.jpg …
(2021-04-12). Remembering Ladonna Brave Bull Allard. indybay.org LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard, also known as LaDonna Bravebull Allard, passed on. She was preceded by her husband Miles by two years. I'm proud to say I knew her for many years as part of NAFPS, or New Age Frauds Plastic Shamans. She was best known to most for her leading role in the NoDAPL movement.
(2021-04-12). People protest against the discharge of wastewater into the sea in Tokyo. ecns.cn The Japanese government is set to announce, as early as Tuesday, a plan to dilute radioactive Fukushima wastewater and release it into the ocean.
(2021-04-12). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Allows Dakota Access Pipeline to Continue Operation. globalresearch.ca The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) on Friday said they …
(2021-04-12). Biden Has a Chance to End the Jail-to-Deportation Pipeline. thenation.com Carla Gomez, Hena Mansori, Sophia Gurulé Biden Has a Chance to End the Jail-to-Deportation Pipeline…
(2021-04-11). Climate Change: Ocean Layer Mixing has slowed 6 times Faster than Scientists Feared, Endangering Sea Life. juancole.com 
By Phil Hosegood | — If you've ever been seasick, "stable" may be the last word you associate with the ocean. But as global temperatures rise, the world's oceans are technically becoming more stable. When scientists talk about ocean stability, they refer to how much the different layers of the sea mix with each other. …
(2021-04-11). Ending Fracking by 2035. counterpunch.org 
Fracking was an issue in the last election, with Republicans accusing Biden of planning to end it and Biden defending himself by asserting he had no such plans. This is unfortunate. The planet-destroying reactionaries steered the conversation onto their turf and away from the brutal reality that if we want to survive as a species,
(2021-04-11). Mars Didn't Dry Up All At Once. eurasiareview.com 
While attention has been focused on the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last month, its predecessor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp on the red planet and is still making discoveries. Research published n the journal Geology shows that Mars had drier and wetter eras before drying up completely about 3 billion years ago. | "A primary goal of the Curiosity mission was to study the transition between the habitable environment of the past, to the dry and cold climate that Mars has now. These rock layers recorded that change in great detail," said Roger Wiens, a coauthor on the paper an…
(2021-04-11). How Will Climate Change Affect Hailstorms? eurasiareview.com 
Hail severity may increase in most regions of the world while Australia and Europe are expected to experience more hailstorms as a result of climate change, an international review led by a UNSW Sydney researcher has found. | The review study, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, examined the effects climate change will have on hail in the future. | It shows a global summary of hail trends from past observations and projected future trends from simulations and models. | The review led to the general expectation that hailstorm frequency will decrease in East Asia and North America, while increasing…
(2021-04-11). Colorado River Basin Due For More Frequent, Intense Hydroclimate Events. eurasiareview.com 
In the vast Colorado River basin, climate change is driving extreme, interconnected events among earth-system elements such as weather and water. These events are becoming both more frequent and more intense and are best studied together, rather than in isolation, according to new research. | "We found that concurrent extreme hydroclimate events, such as high temperatures and unseasonable rain that quickly melt mountain snowpack to cause downstream floods, are projected to increase and intensify within several critical regions of the Colorado River basin," said Katrina Bennett, a hydrologist at Los Alamos Nati…
(2021-04-11). Lightning Strikes To More Than Double In Arctic As Climate Warms. eurasiareview.com 
In 2019, the National Weather Service in Alaska reported spotting the first-known lightning strikes within 300 miles of the North Pole. Lightning strikes are almost unheard of above the Arctic Circle, but scientists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine have published new research in the journal Nature Climate Change detailing how Arctic lightning strikes stand to increase by about 100 percent over northern lands by the end of the century as the climate continues warming. | "We projected how lightning in high-latitude boreal forests and Arctic tundra regions will change across North Americ…
(2021-04-11). Biden Administration Allows Oil To Continue Flowing Through Dakota Access Pipeline. popularresistance.org Washington, DC – Speaking before a federal judge today, representatives from the Biden administration's U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicated that the agency will not shutter the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), despite the ongoing threats it poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the fact that it is operating without a federal permit. Although President Joe Biden recently announced intentions to improve Tribal consultation and initiate long-term action to tackle climate change, his administration took a stance today that was identical to that of former President Trump. | Earlier this year, Standing Rock Sioux…