President Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters today for a briefing from his homeland security team on the latest updates with Hurricane Matthew, which is currently barreling through the Caribbean and headed for Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Matthew is “a serious storm,” Obama said and asked residents in the storm’s path to take evacuation […]
It’s a banner week for the end of the world, because we’ve officially pushed atmospheric carbon levels past their dreaded 400 parts per million. Permanently. According to a blog post last Friday from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, “it already seems safe to conclude that we won’t be seeing a monthly value below 400 ppm […]
A top North Dakota oil executive has a new take on how the Dakota Access Pipeline stalemate could be broken. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. http://tytnetwork.com/join”The chief executive of North Dakota’s largest oil producer, Whiting Petroleum Corp, […]
France just passed a law against plastic cups, cutlery, and plates. By 2020, the Energy Transition for Green Growth will go into effect and said plastics will start phasing out. Should it be illegal to negatively impact climate change? Or should it be legal to sell harmful goods despite the detrimental environmental impact? Either way, […]
Nine out of 10 people worldwide live in places where air pollution exceeds guidelines, putting them at higher risk of heart disease, strokes and cancer, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. A new air quality monitoring model, that uses satellite data as well as traditional ground measurements, shows that 92 percent of the world’s population […]
A week before Russia’s Daldykan river was turned red by a leak from a metals plant, the UN issued a warning as chilling as it was overlooked: 323 million people are at risk from life-threatening diseases caused by the pollution of rivers and lakes. Cholera, typhoid and other deadly pathogens are increasing in more than […]
MINOT – A handful of Dakota Access Pipeline opponents took over the stage Wednesday as North Dakota’s top oil regulator spoke to an oil industry group’s annual meeting. The elders of the Oglala Lakota Nation referred to the pipeline as the “black snake” as they took the podium and microphone while Department of Mineral Resources […]
Colonial Pipeline restarted the gasoline pipeline in Alabama that had been shut down because of a major leak, which caused shortages and surging fuel prices across the South. The pipeline was reopened Wednesday evening, company officials said in a statement. The pipeline leak was discovered Sept. 9 near Helena, Alabama, when state workers noticed a […]
To clinch a deal, Germany’s Bayer pumped even more money into its bid for the U.S. seed giant, valuing it at $66 billion, including debt. It’s the third time Bayer (BAYRY) has cranked up its offer, and this time it was enough to win the backing of Monsanto’s board. The takeover would create a vast […]
NORFOLK, Va. – Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to drive through. Five hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road to Tybee Island, Ga., is disappearing beneath the sea several times […]