Climate Change and America’s Deadly National Parks

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2011 After learning that tourist deaths in Yosemite National Park increased this season compared with a typical year, Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler asks whether the events that are rearranging the Earth's climate might be the culprit. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

24 Hours of Inconvenient Truths

Staff / Truthdig Sep 12, 2011 With the proportion of Americans concerned about climate change dropping from 62 percent four years ago to 48 today, Al Gore is poised to turn the tide in a daylong lecture on the subject, with an hour devoted to every time zone in the world. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Aug 24, 2011 The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 58-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gatesThe White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by 5. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

It’s My Planet and I’ll Fry If I Want To

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Activist Spells Out Our Great Shame

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2011 Gus Speth, environmental lawyer, former Clinton adviser and founder of the Washington, D.C.-based World Resources Institute, who was arrested Sunday at the White House while protesting a proposed oil pipeline, has some bad news for American optimists. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pipeline Protesters Jailed Outside White House

Staff / Truthdig Aug 21, 2011 Author, activist and founder of the global environmental movement 350.org Bill McKibben was arrested outside the White House on Saturday along with 64 others protesting the construction of a pipeline from Canada's tar sands sites to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Picturing Climate Change in Your County

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2011 The National Resources Defense Council has given us a view from above on extreme temperature, smog and allergen pollution, drought and flood vulnerability in the United States for select periods over the last two decades. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Most Conservative White Guys Deny Climate Change

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2011 It's not just a political stereotype: Conservative white men really do make up a disproportionate percentage of climate change deniers. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

If You’re Under 35, You’ve Never Experienced ‘Normal’ Earth Climate

Staff / Truthdig Aug 2, 2011 Physical scientist Robert Grumbine crunches some numbers to determine that "the last time the global mean was below the climate normal was March 1976." Basically Grumbine is looking for "normal" climate, and he sees things diverging after 1940. So tell us, old-timers, what was it like before the planet started melting? (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ice Cream

Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain Aug 2, 2011 Dig deeper

Careful What You Pray For, Texas

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2011 Texas is suffering through one of the worst droughts in the state's history, and things have gotten so bad that news of a tropical storm -- that thing just below a hurricane on the bad-weather scale -- is being greeted with cautious optimism. Texas Gov. Rick Perry named three days in April "Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas." (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Obama Administration’s Changing Attitude on Medicinal Marijuana

Staff / Truthdig Jul 28, 2011 This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: the politics of global warming; the ever more complicated fight to legalize marijuana; Robert Scheer's update on the debt; the director of the new documentary "Honest Man"; and the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.This week on Truthdig Radio: global warming, legalizing marijuana, Robert Scheer's update on the debt, the "Honest Man" documentary, and Norway in the context of church and state. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )