by The Conversation | Nov 28, 2021 | Climate & Environment
Republished with permission from The Conversation, by June Sekera, The New School and Neva Goodwin, Tufts University After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the...
by Fact Keepers | Oct 6, 2021 | Fact Heroes, Climate & Environment
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been announced as winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics. The prize is awarded “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.” The prize is worth 10 million Swedish...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jun 16, 2021 | Climate & Environment, Progress & Solutions
Trash in waterways is an unsightly and potentially unhealthy problem. Baltimore experienced an increase of trash flowing into its harbor after every storm. But the trash that comes in can include things like large tree branches and even tires. So how to take care of...
by Fact Keepers | Jun 15, 2021 | Fact Heroes, Climate & Environment
From SuperLawers.com, by Jessica Glynn on May 28, 2021 On May 8, 2019, all eyes were on R. Brent Wisner as he stood before an Oakland jury to deliver closing arguments in the third Roundup lawsuit to go to trial. His clients, husband and wife Alva and Alberta Pilliod,...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jun 7, 2021 | Politics, Corruption & Criminality, Climate & Environment
When we see some of the tectonic changes forced on the world’s largest oil companies, it is easy to start to feel optimistic. At shareholder meetings for Exxon and Chevron, astute activist investors forced climate activists on to the boards of directors of these...