Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday stymied Democrats’ long-shot bid to immediately increase direct stimulus…
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Loeffler sides with Trump on $2,000 stimulus payments
Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia signaled on Tuesday that she’s willing to vote in favor of…
‘We cannot make it without science’: Greta Thunberg says climate experts are being ignored
Climate experts are not being listened to despite the coronavirus pandemic highlighting the importance of following…
Fatal freshwater skin disease in dolphins linked to climate crisis
Dolphins are increasingly dying slow, painful deaths from skin lesions likened to severe burns as a…
Mother of girl who died from asthma urges mayor to rethink Silvertown tunnel
The mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah has called on the mayor of London to rethink his plans…
Fractures to Antarctic iceberg reduce risk to South Georgia wildlife
A giant iceberg, heading for the island of South Georgia, is continuing to fracture into smaller…
Patti Smith: ‘As a writer, you can be a pacifist or a murderer’
Patti Smith talks about her first poetry performance – in 1971 at St Mark’s Church in…
‘Miners out, Covid out’: threats to indigenous reserve in Brazil grow
A petition with 439,000 signatures demanding “miners out, Covid out” of the Yanomami reserve in Roraima…
How we are changing the way we rate sustainability of consumer electronics
When we first started looking at the sustainability of consumer electronics at the beginning of 2019,…
Could Covid lockdown have helped save the planet?
When lockdown began, climate scientists were horrified at the unfolding tragedy, but also intrigued to observe…