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Historic Hurricane Dorian unleashing ‘catastrophic’ blow in northern Bahamas. Hurricane warnings posted for Florida’s east coast.

www.washingtonpost.com - By Andrew Freedman and Andrew Freedman Editor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. Email Bio Follow Jason Samenow Jason Samenow Editor and writer covering weather…

Hurricane Dorian has smashed all sorts of intensity records in the Atlantic Ocean

www.washingtonpost.com - By Ian Livingston Ian Livingston Email Bio Follow September 1 at 8:39 PM Hurricane Dorian is taking extreme to the next level. With sustained winds of 185 mph Sunday afternoon and evening, the Catego…

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Brexit: Corbyn says he wants general election once legislation blocking no-deal gets passed – live news

www.theguardian.com - Corbyn says there were leave voters and remain voters at the weekend protests. People are alarmed at the prospect of a no-deal Brexit. He says there were many reasons for people voting leave. But no …

Hong Kong students boycott classes as Chinese media warns 'end is coming'

www.theguardian.com - Thousands of students in Hong Kong have boycotted the first day of the new term in a fresh wave of protests, after a tense weekend of violent clashes between police and demonstrators. On Monday, univ…

New research shows vast majority of Hong Kong protesters support more radical tactics

theconversation.com - Three months on, there’s still no end in sight for the Hong Kong protest movement. What started as a demonstration against a bill to amend the city’s extradition laws has now morphed into a broader m…

Opinion | Remembering the legacy of Labor Day

www.washingtonpost.com - By E.J. Dionne Jr. E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist September 1 at 6:24 PM It was known as the Treaty of Detroit, but it did not end a shooting war. In …

Why Has the (Western) Notion of Progress Been Sanitized of Slavery, Colonization, and Exploitation?

eand.co - I grew up in a strange way. A strange little boy, fragile and sickly, in a land that abjured him. Now, you might say: so what? What does that have to with the Western story of progress, and how it’s …

Texas loosens firearm laws hours after the state's latest mass shooting left five dead

www.cnn.com - Kris Brown, president of gun violence prevention advocacy group Brady, criticized the bill going into effect September 1. "Many states took the opportunity in the last two years to learn lessons from…

How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights

theintercept.com - Earlier this summer, environmental activists in Ohio were alarmed by the passage of a mysterious state budget amendment that would close a new avenue for residents to sue polluters. The provision inv…

How White Nationalists Have Been Inspired by the Genocide of Muslims in Bosnia

theintercept.com - On a spring day in 2017, a monument was raised in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, in memory of a terrible mass murder that had occurred there two decades earlier. In a somber ceremony attended by local…

Trump’s lost summer: Aides claim victory, but others see incompetence and intolerance

www.washingtonpost.com - President Trump walks to Marine One to depart from the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 9. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Philip Rucker and Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Email …

Experts Brace For An Apocalyptic Future As Earth’s Forests Burn To The Ground - Cerebral Overload

cerebraloverload.com - Authored by Michael Snyder via End of the American Dream blog A world without forests would be an apocalyptic wasteland, and right now we are losing our forests at an astounding rate. As you read thi…

Global wildlife populations have fallen 60% in just 40 years

energyskeptic.com - Below is a summary of the World Wildlife Fund report. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch!…

Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

kevinhester.live - “Losing the remaining Arctic sea ice and its ability to reflect incoming solar energy back to space would be equivalent to adding one trillion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, on top of the 2.4 trillio…

How clean is your hospital room? To reduce the spread of infections, it could probably be cleaner

theconversation.com - Imagine you need to go into hospital. First, you are likely to be seen in the emergency department, and then moved to a ward room for further treatment and recovery. Unknown to you, the last patient …

The fight against climate change is an anti-colonialist struggle

www.greanvillepost.com - With this month’s burning of the Amazon as a result of the actions of the fascist Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, the first world has gotten a glimpse of the horrors that the world’s poor and ind…

The Great Barrier Reef outlook is 'very poor'. We have one last chance to save it

theconversation.com - It’s official. The outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has been downgraded from “poor” to “very poor” by the Australian government’s own experts. That’s the conclusion of the latest five-yearly report…

'Sociopathic Disregard for Our Future': Trump EPA Set to Gut Restrictions on Planet-Warming Methane Emissions

www.commondreams.org - Amid dire scientific warnings that the international community must act immediately to slash greenhouse gas emissions, President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly set to ta…

Bank of China approved $140 billion of credit for Silk Road projects

www.rt.com - Over the past few years, it has continuously invested in economies along the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (jointly known as the BRI), according to the bank. It has …

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