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Farmer Jamie Davis is closing the gap as he bids to be Louisiana’s first Black U.S. Senator since Reconstruction, leaving Julia Letlow without the sure victory Republicans had hoped for.
"This is not going to be a slam dunk," a pollster warns.
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Anup Kaphle: "We’ve built a one-stop flood resource hub with everything you need right now: verified donation channels for flood relief...emergency contacts, hospital & blood-bank numbers, live river monitoring, and how to report a missing person."
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The New York Times used video clips collected by tourists to reconstruct the glacial collapse that caused the horrific flooding in Nepal and Tibet.
Have never seen footage of an ice cap in the world's "third pole" shattering and avalanching down.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
“Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas. ...This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change.”
A Scottish Tory peer has spoken out in defence of using the N-word.
Nigel Biggar argued in a blogpost that it is 'stupidly unjust' for people to be punished for using the N-word if they did not mean it in a racist way.
Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
It's been exactly 3 days since WIRED called our group buy "a Costco for heat pumps" and our inboxes have not recovered.
If you're looking to upgrade to a heat pump, check out heatpumpgroupbuy.com.
We can't promise a $1.50 hot dog, but we can promise a pretty darn good deal on a heat pump.
In memory Adam Nathaniel Yauch aka MCA, American bass player, rapper and founding member of the hardcore punkrock / hip hop group Beastie Boys, born on this day in 1964, NYC
Photo by Gene Ambo
#punkrock#hardcorepunk#adamyauch#mca#beastieboys#history#punkrockhistory#otd
Very pleased to announce a new article “Ecological novelty induced by climate change” in Nature Climate Change. Lead author is Claire Wright, one of our remarkable PhD students in @uvicenvi.bsky.social. Thanks to a great international author team—a pleasure! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Haiti and Bastille Day: "The livelihood of 2 to 6 million people in France out of a total population of 25 million depended on slavery and products grown by enslaved people. French possession of Haiti meant it owned the richest colony in the world."
www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/07/14/h...
If we build enough clean power and grid capacity to accommodate winter peaks from electrification of space heat in colder climates (like most of Europe and North America), we'll have more than enough capacity for carbon-free air conditioning for all.
If we win heat, we get AC pretty much for free.
NO! It's going to keep getting hotter year-on-year, decade-by-decade
Until we stop pumping out greenhouse gases and positive feedback loops and tipped tipping points have finished with us
And the temperature will stay elevated for many thousands of years
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'Rooftop solar, a home battery, an electric vehicle offer something the grid, the gas station, + the utility bill cannot: certainty. They are no longer just products. They are acts of self-determination.'
Fleeing the volatility of fossil fuel for the security of renewables
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Excited to share the cover and an early endorsement from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for my forthcoming book, "The Carbon Wave." It's out Sept. 1! Preorders help the book travel further.
The book is on sale this week with free shipping at Bookshop. Order your copy today!
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The best now sail the bee’s ship,
their course laid no more by stars,
they themselves are the lights that
fade, their company the constellation
that drifts apart behind thick clouds.
-Thomas Meyer
What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries?
The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport.
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A “Shazam” app for plants? Users of a new global app can now identify weeds, check pollen maps, or even discover new plants, all while providing important data for researchers.
Find out more with The Conversation: https://ow.ly/v9jk50Z38vM
Coming this week: AMERICAN POWER.
For the inaugural issue of Phenomenal World, thirteen essays and interviews on the geopolitical and economic pathologies of the global scene.
Join us: phenomenalworld.org
We're tracing U.S. fossil fascism in a quick 3-part @drilledmedia.bsky.social miniseries (ep 2 drops tomorrow), from WWI to the Red Line Agreement to now. Important context for the current moment! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
Renewables are a structural hedge against fossil fuel shocks. In power markets, the more often wind, solar, hydro and nuclear cover demand, the fewer the hours in which gas sets the marginal price, and the weaker the link between global gas markets and domestic electricity costs.
We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war.
This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.
Even as senior Trump officials cut vital foreign aid programs — in one case celebrating with cake afterward — they had been repeatedly warned that people would die.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.