Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change
Thanksgiving is quite a U.S. holiday. In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas. ...
Quiet Does Not Flow This Don: A Week Of the ‘Pathetic Inadequate’
That the current U.S. president places a premium on loyalty has been evident from the start --Â loyalty not to the institutions of government...
The U.S. Election and its Aftermath
The midterm elections are over, the result ... a split-decision. The Democrats will control the House, raising the possibility of an impeachment attempt. The...
A Tale of Two Countries
In a statement this week, Istanbul's chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, says Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate. If...
Weather Disasters, Global Warming and the Potential for Conflict
East Island was an uninhabited remote island in the Hawaiian chain, but it was an important refuge for wildlife:Â Many of the endangered Hawaiian...
Of Dissemblers And Dismemberers
The maliciously mocking, malevolent, maladroit, misfit, malappropriating the White House got his comeuppance this week ... at least for a while. Senator Elizabeth Warren...
Does the Latest IPCC Report Offer Hope For Earth
Hurricanes and storms on both sides of the Atlantic appeared to encore the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. It had just concluded the finalization...
Weather and White House Turmoil as Elections Loom
Hurricane Michael wreaked havoc as it traversed the Florida panhandle. The first Category 5 hurricane to hit the area since 1881 when records began,...
Why Trump is Trump and Why his Policies
Not only are we in a sense defined by our DNA, but new research shows our behavior may also be affected by that of...
Rohingya Massacres: U.S. State Department Posts Report as UN Agency Formed To Assist ICC
Very quietly, without fanfare, in a story that went by almost unnoticed, the U.S. State Department website posted a report this week on the...