by faster | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 27, 2019 SNIP: A Chinese-owned company has been granted approval to run a 96m litre a year commercial water mining operation in severely drought-hit southern Queensland, where locals are on water rations and communities at imminent...
by faster | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Bloomberg DATE: September 25, 2019 SNIP: The Trump administration brushed aside concerns about climate change as it sought to justify plans for oil drilling in the Arctic refuge, even going so far as to suggest that a little extra warmth would do the planet...
by faster | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Sludge DATE: September 24, 2019 SNIP: As the United States Senate fails to act on catastrophic climate change, dozens of its members are profiting from investments in oil, gas, and coal companies that are fueling the crisis. Twenty-nine U.S. senators and their...
by faster | Jun 14, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Independent DATE: June 14, 2019 SNIP: Ecuador has given the US military permission to use a Galapagos island as an airfield, angering critics in the South American country who say the agreement is unconstitutional. Under a deal with Ecuador’s right-wing...
by faster | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: September 12, 2018 SNIP: When North Carolina got bad news about what its coast could look like thanks to climate change, it chose to ignore it. In 2012, the state now in the path of Hurricane Florence reacted to a prediction by its Coastal...