By Janis Mackey Frayer and Yuliya Talmazan 17 September 2018 ITOGON, Philippines (NBC News) – Dozens of miners and their families sheltering in a chapel were feared dead on Monday after a powerful typhoon swept through the Philippines and triggered a huge landslide that buried much of the remote community. Typhoon Mangkhut, with sustained winds […]
IDUKKI, 31 July 2018 (Gulf News) – The Idukki dam, where the water level is inching up towards the danger level, has come to symbolise the tenuous ties between faith and the fear of floods. Idukki district authorities are keeping a close watch on the rising waters in the Idukki dam, where an “orange alert” […]
By Nicole Winfield 6 July 2018 VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis urged governments on Friday to make good on their commitments to curb global warming, warning that climate change, continued unsustainable development and rampant consumption threatens to turn the Earth into a vast pile of “rubble, deserts, and refuse.” Francis made the appeal at […]
22 June 2018 (UN News) – Women’s rights are under threat from a “backlash” of conservatism and fundamentalism around the world, a United Nation panel warned on Friday.“Alarming pushbacks have been progressing across regions of the globe”, through what the Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice described as “alliance of […]
By Livia Albeck-Ripka 21 February 2018 (The New York Times) – The Rev. Richard Cizik used to believe climate change was a myth. The science had to be rigged, he thought; those who believed in it were just tree-huggers. But in 2002, a friend convinced Mr. Cizik to go to a conference about climate change, […]
By Marwa Eltagouri 6 February 2018 (The Washington Post) – At least 53 children across the country have died during a nasty flu outbreak that is already one of the worst on record, even though the season typically peaks in February.But Texas televangelist Gloria Copeland thinks there’s nothing to worry about. In fact, the minister […]
By Anthony Faiola; Photos by Salwan Georges 16 January 2018 (The Washington Post) – Months after Hurricane Irma blazed its destructive path through the Caribbean, the once vibrant community on the tiny island of Barbuda is still struggling to rebuild paradise lost. Before the September storm, Barbuda was a forgotten Eden about the physical size […]
By Karen Chávez 11 November 2017 CODRINGTON, Barbuda (The Citizen-Times) – Carl Francis is a ghost of a man, shuffling slowly, sadly down the roads of a ghost town. Francis, a father of seven, barely lived through the historic rains and winds of Hurricane Irma, which two months ago landed like a bomb on Barbuda, […]
By Zahra Hirji 31 October 2017 (BuzzFeed News) – The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday afternoon sweeping changes to who can advise the agency on its research and regulatory priorities, opening the door to more industry participation.Effective immediately, scientists who receive EPA funding cannot serve on the agency’s three major advisory groups. Some Republican […]
By Avery Anapol 19 October 2017(The Hill) – President Trump’s pick for a top environmental post once referred to belief in global warming as ”paganism” for “secular elites.”Kathleen Hartnett White, whom Trump nominated last week to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, made the comment during a 2016 appearance on the online conservative […]
