Protesters walk through chemical irritants dispersed by federal agents at a July protest in Portland, Ore.…
Day: August 3, 2020
July rainfall across Australia dips to 43% below average, BoM reports
Rainfall across Australia was 43% below average in July, continuing a long-term drying trend consistent with…
Senate under growing pressure to reach coronavirus relief deal
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will announce votes this week on proposals to extend federal unemployment…
House committee subpoenas 4 top Pompeo aides
Rep. Eliot Engel. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images By KYLE CHENEY 08/03/2020 11:55 AM EDT Updated: 08/03/2020…
Top GOP lawmaker urges regulators to extend relief for renters, banks
Sen. Mike Crapo. | Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee is calling…
‘There’s still a choice’: New Zealand’s melting glaciers show the human fingerprints of climate change
Twice a year, glaciologist Lauren Vargo and her colleagues set up camp beside two small lakes…
Biden has shown that bold climate action is now common sense. Will UK politicians learn? | Matthew Pennycook
Throughout the Democratic party presidential primary, candidate Joe Biden was variously chastised for his preference for…
The pandemic has revealed gruesome animal abuses at US factory farms | Andrew Gawthorpe
More than any event in recent history, the coronavirus pandemic has made plain the consequences of…
With big rallies cancelled, young climate activists are adapting election tactics
For young climate activists in the US, staying home because of the pandemic does not mean…
Republicans prep for leadership battle if Trump goes down
The maneuvering for power in a possible post-Trump world has already broken out among House Republicans…