Washington, D.C., 5 January 2017 (The Commonwealth Fund) – A repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could lead to significant economic disruption and substantial job losses in every state, according to new research. In 2019 alone, 2.6 million people could lose their jobs. These losses could rise to nearly 3 million […]
By Greg Keenan4 January 2017 (The Globe and Mail) – Canadians and Americans wore out the showroom floors of car dealerships in 2016, driving auto makers to record sales years in both markets. Auto makers sold 1.95 million vehicles in Canada, the fourth consecutive year that sales have hit a record. The 2016 level was […]
By Jim Robbins4 January 2017 (Yale e360) – The Yellowstone River has its headwaters in the mountain streams and snowy peaks of the famous U.S. national park with the same name, and makes an unfettered downhill run all the way to the Missouri River, nearly 700 miles away. It is the longest undammed river in […]
By Christopher Intagliata22 November 2016 (Scientific American) – Climate change may be partly to blame for the massive die-off of pine trees in the western U.S. But it works the other way, too: forest die-offs can alter the global climate. “I like thinking of this as a parallel to something like El Nino.” Abigail Swann, […]
By Jeff Goodell22 December 2016 (Rolling Stone) – In the late 1980s, James Hansen became the first scientist to offer unassailable evidence that burning fossil fuels is heating up the planet. In the decades since, as the world has warmed, the ice has melted and the wildfires have spread, he has published papers on everything […]
By Robert Sanders4 January 2017 (Berkeley News) – A controversial paper published two years ago that concluded there was no detectable slowdown in ocean warming over the previous 15 years — widely known as the “global warming hiatus” — has now been confirmed using independent data in research led by researchers from UC Berkeley and […]
By Azadeh Ansari and Dave Alsup30 December 2016 (CNN) – The carcasses of thousands of sea creatures have mysteriously washed up on the western coast of Nova Scotia. As many as 20,000 fish, lobsters, starfish, scallops, crabs and other animals have turned up dead at Savory Park, Canadian authorities said. And they have no idea […]
By Kevin Kalhoefer and Andrew Seifter28 December 2016 (Media Matters) – Donald Trump and the presidential election dominated news coverage in 2016. But talking heads still found plenty of time to make jaw-dropping comments about climate change, energy, and the environment. This year’s list of ridiculous claims includes a dangerous conspiracy theory about Hurricane Matthew, […]
30 December 2016 (Snopes) – An image purportedly showing a billboard advertisement for Trump Tower Mumbai — which shows a photograph of the American businessman and President-elect alongside the slogan “There is only one way to live” with a group of apparently homeless people sitting and sleeping in the street beneath it — was circulated […]
14 December 2016 (Desdemona Despair) – These graphs show the poll results for U.S. Republicans and Democrats when asked about their feelings toward Russia and Vladimir Putin. Over the two-year period from 2014 to 2016, the net favorability of Republicans toward Putin increased by 56 points. Data are from the YouGov/Economist poll, 10-13 December 2016; […]
