Refugees claiming asylum at the southern U.S. border are fleeing a staggering set of harsh conditions, most often identified as widespread violence and persecution. While both are driving factors, Central Americans are also trying to escape the devastating effects of climate change.
For all his power to decide what things are Allowed/Not Allowed, Forgivable/Unforgivable, Pope Francis has no way of forcing governments to act, other than through pontifical persuasion. This is hard for the Chill Pope, because he, like many of us, can see that we are slowly but surely destroying the planet—a very…
With few exceptions, any decent gesture made by a massive corporation isn’t altruistic; it’s very clearly to bolster its own bottom line. We know this! Why do so many companies (cough, DOVE) pretend otherwise? But Mars Inc.—manufacturer of the eponymous chocolate bar and Wrigley’s chewing gum, among others— is…
As of today, Scott Pruitt continues to hang on at the EPA, despite a mountain of ethics investigations suggesting that he has enriched himself and his friends at the expense of the American public and the health of the planet. To that, we at Jezebel say: How inspiring. If only we could all be so attentive to our…
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit found that the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment was allowed to expire last year by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross because there were not enough members of “industry” on the panel, the Washington Post reports.
We live at a time when the federal government is removing climate change data from the EPA’s website, withdrawing from climate accords (the anniversary is upon us!), and then there’s this lunatic—yet scientists are still somehow soldiering on. This week signifiant research was published on the increasing severity of…
A group of scientists who stick out like a sore thumb has casually announced that a couple years back they discovered Penguin Party Central, no big deal.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—On the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, in a small, airless ballroom in the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, a few dozen people gathered to be reassured that the planet was not facing imminent catastrophe. “There’s so much disinformation out there, so much…
Over the past decade, birth rates in the U.S. have dropped to a historic low, with several contributing factors such as the dipping economy and, more positively, advancements in sex education and family planning. But among those deciding whether or not to have kids is an increasingly pressing worry: How do we justify…
A run-of-the-mill news item about a Wisconsin mom who spied on her daughter’s driving test has blown the lid off a thrilling caper of mystery and deception centered around a crazed federal employee who lives a double life: one, as a woman with one nose; and another, as a woman with a slightly different nose.
Former The Help co-stars Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain are teaming up for a new holiday comedy, Variety reports, which will be produced by Chastain’s company Freckle Films.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
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“It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,” reads the Fourth National Climate Assessment, released on Friday by 13 federal agencies and approved by the White House. “For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing…
While the men of this nation engage in a public reckoning with the prevalence of sexual assault even among—gasp—Good Guys, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has crawled out of his sewer, tip-toed into the room and shouted, “You know what would cure all this? My thing,” which is the general attitude that got us into this…
At the last minute, three EPA scientists have been barred by the agency from speaking at a Rhode Island conference that covers the impacts of climate change, the New York Times reports.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
The entire island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.4 million Americans, is still without power after a direct hit from Hurricane Maria, the fifth-strongest storm to ever hit the United States. Cell phone and internet service has also largely been lost and it could take six months for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority,…
Update 10:44PM: Maybe not. CNN has published a statement from White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters, denying the claims reported this afternoon by the Wall Street Journal:
