Meanwhile, the lesson for the United States should be simple enough: the survival of the planet cannot wait for the world’s last superpower to complete our endless business of war.

Governments are cracking down on protests causing travel chaos and targeting cultural objects.

By David Bromwich ( Tomdispatch.com ) - A new war, a new alibi. When we think about our latest war — the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, just six months after our Afghan War ended so catastrophically — there is a hidden benefit. As long a…

After the Black Summer fires, experts called for a way of detecting bushfires more rapidly, using satellites. But executing this idea faces challenges.

Activist scientists and the media are shamefully using emotional language to describe an almost inconsequential mortality event in order to manipulate public sentiment and force influential conservation organizations to accept a scientifically unsound politic…

The world faces two energy crises: (1) too much, because we are changing the Earth’s climate and chemistry and so inviting global catastrophe; and (2) too little, because the bulk of humanity still lives in poverty, without enough for a decent standard of liv…

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” The post Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #565 first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

The city of Istanbul, which extends on both the European and Asian sides of the Bosporus strait, is the only city in the world to span 2 continents. Over the centuries, this area has been under Greek, Roman, Ottoman, and Turkish control. One of the great hist…