The Rio Grande is one of America’s most famous rivers, and it is in trouble. Here are the details of what is happening. Changes like this are occurring in rivers all over the country.
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FAR WEST TEXAS—The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso.
The New York Times described the crash of crumbling houses and the “cries of frightened women and children” on its May 26 front page. The raging river displaced hundreds of people and destroyed scores of adobe homes.
In Mexico, the Rio Grande is known as the Rio Bravo—the rough, or wild, river—signifying the force that caused several devastating floods in El Paso and neighboring Ciudad Juárez.
Today these historic floods are hard to imagine. The river channel in El Paso-Juárez now only fills during the irrigation season. Further downstream, the river is frequently dry in a 200-mile section known as the Forgotten Reach.
Inside Climate News documented this remote stretch of the river in July on a flight with the non-profit Light Hawk. Other than limited flows from springs and creeks, known locally as arroyos, this section of the Rio Grande barely has water.
That’s because reservoirs now harness the flows of snowmelt and monsoon rains that once defined the […]
As I watched the Trump fascist gathering in Manhattan, so reminiscent of Hitler’s gatherings, and listened to those Trump fanatics cheer and laugh at the vulgar racism, misogyny, hate, and endless lies, I wondered how many of these willfully ignorant men and women realized that the homelessness, the housing crisis, that has made it so difficult for some of them to buy a house or created the homelessness in their towns and cities can largely be traced to the billionaires who own their Fuhrer? It is explained very well in Thom Hartmann’s column.
Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone speaks as then-U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a strategic and policy discussion with CEOs in the State Department Library in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 11, 2017 in Washington, D.C: Credit: Olivier Douliery / Getty
The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity.
America’s morbidly rich billionaires are at it again, this time screwing the average family’s ability to have decent, affordable housing in their never-ending quest for more, more, more. Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and Denmark have had enough and done something about it: We should, too.
There are a few things that are essential to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that should never be purely left to the marketplace; these are the most important sectors where government intervention, regulation, and even subsidy are not just appropriate but essential. Housing is at the top of that list.
The climate science community, as this article describes, is running around screaming with their hair on fire, but no one seems to be listening. We have a fascist pro-petroleum do nothing to mediate climate change candidate in Trump, and a Democrat who is not making dealing with climate change a big enough priority, although she does recognize we must do something about what is coming. The point being no one in politics other than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seems to properly understand the crisis humanity faces. So get prepared. We are about to live in a world none of us has ever seen before.
The world’s nations must commit to dramatically slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the near future or risk a “catastrophic” rise in global average temperatures, a key United Nations climate report published Thursday warned.
“It is still technically possible to meet the 1.5°C goal” set out in the Paris agreement, “but only with a G20-led massive global mobilization to cut all greenhouse gas emissions, starting today,” the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) said in a summary of its annual Emissions Gap Report.
“Nations must collectively commit to cutting 42% off annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and 57% by 2035 in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)—and back this up with rapid action—or the Paris agreement’s 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years,” UNEP warned.
“Failure to increase ambition in these new NDCs and start delivering immediately would put the world on course for a temperature increase of 2.6-3.1°C over this century,” the agency said. “This would bring debilitating impacts to people, planet, and economies.”
The billionaires are afraid that if fascist Trump is elected and they have said anything against him they will face his revenge. Here is an example of this, and how it is transforming major media. Trump is echoing the words of Hitler and Mussolini, and he knows it and is doing it very deliberately. In the final days of the election campaign, it has all become explicit and blatant. What is so sad and disheartening is the millions of American voters who are eating this up. We are very close to becoming a fascist state like Hungary. It all depends on how you vote.
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Former Washington Post editor-at-large, Robert Kagan, revealed to The Daily Beast on Saturday that the newspaper’s owner — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — and 2024 GOP nominee Donald Trump, allegedly agreed on a plan to “kill” the Post’s endorsement of 2024 Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, the news outlet reports.
Bezos knows first hand the consequences of criticizing the former president. The Post’s 2016 endorsement of Hillary Clinton is widely thought to have led to him losing out on a $10 billion cloud computing defense contract awarded by the Trump administration.
Following his Friday resignation from the Post, Kagan told the Beast “that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazonfounder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal.”
I have been warning readers not to buy Roundup or anything made by the Bayer corporation for years. They have become even more evil and harmful to humans and pets exposed to their products. Here is the latest.
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Roundup isn’t just bad; it’s getting worse. A new report from Friends of the Earth (FOTE) claims that the world’s most widely used commercial pesticide has become 45 times more dangerous to people and the environment. The findings come after years of litigation that had presumably forced Bayer to remove the product’s toxic main ingredient, glyphosate, in an attempt to make it less deadly.
When Bayer bought Monsanto in 2018, the company was facing thousands of lawsuits over the detrimental effects of Roundup, its flagship weed killer. Soon after the $63-billion sale, a California jury found Bayer responsible for groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson’s blood cancer, specifically non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which had been linked to the chemicals in Roundup. In 2021, after cancer victims had filed more than 100,000 lawsuits against Bayer, the company finally caved, announcing that it would remove glyphosate from Roundup beginning in 2023.
That didn’t happen. According to FOTE, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental advocacy nonprofit organization, seven products in the Roundup line that can […]
