The Anthropocene Epoch has begun, according to a group of experts assembled at the International Geological Congress in Cape Town, South Africa this week. After seven years of deliberation, members of an international working group voted unanimously on Monday to Read More …
Possible GOP Senate hopeful Kid Rock is trailing Sen. Debbie StabenowDeborah (Debbie) Ann StabenowSheldon Whitehouse leads Democrats into battle against Trump judiciary Bill aims to help farmers sell carbon credits Senate Democrats pump brakes on new stimulus checks MORE (D-Mich.) Read More …
Allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote GOP senator to try to reverse requirement that Pentagon remove Confederate names from bases No, ‘blue states’ do not bail out ‘red states’ Read More …
After almost four years of negotiations and over 50 years of war, Colombia’s rebel FARC group and the government finally signed a peace accord in Havana, Cuba, late Wednesday. “We won the most beautiful of all battles: Peace,” said the Read More …
Opposition is growing on Capitol Hill and beyond to the U.S. government’s planned sale of $1.15 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, whose U.S.-backed coalition has wreaked devastation and displacement on the Yemeni population. Citing “multiple congressional aides,” Foreign Policy reported Read More …
Standing with the Standing Rock Sioux, over 1,200 museum directors, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians—people “familiar with the long history of desecration of Indigenous People’s artifacts and remains worldwide”—have written to the Obama administration to denounce “further irreparable losses” that would Read More …
Poland’s ruling far-right Law and Justice party has reversed its support for a draconian abortion ban after women across the country went on strike to protest the proposed legislation. Jarosław Gowin, the minister of science and higher education, “said on Read More …
A major southern gas pipeline exploded Monday afternoon in Alabama, killing one worker and injuring five others. The explosion occurred in rural Shelby County when a contract crew hit the pipeline with a trackhoe, igniting gasoline, pipeline operator Colonial told Reuters Read More …
A key progressive group is making its first round of new congressional endorsements as it looks to boost its allies ahead of potential 2018 clashes with top Republican lawmakers. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) announced Tuesday morning that it Read More …
Taking a page from young people in the United States and elsewhere who are standing up for their right to healthy environment, Norwegian youth on Monday filed suit against their country’s government for expanding Arctic oil drilling despite increasingly dire Read More …