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Heating Up

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Annie Searle
August 09, 2026

This weekend, as we look around the country, we see that a significant portion of the population is displaced, evacuated from their own homes because of wildfires, floods, winds, tornadoes, mudslides or even failures of critical infrastructure like bridges, roads, and dams. This is not a new phenomenon—it’s familiar from the last several years, as the planet heats up. Since Trump returned to office in 2025, his administration has continued to eliminate regulated climate control protections and advance the use of contributors to the problem, oil, gas, and coal.

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Climate Change is Real

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Patricia Vaccarino
October 13, 2025

Warnings about climate change are not new. In the late 19th century, the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels would create a greenhouse effect, altering the surface temperature of the earth. By 1938, the English engineer and inventor Guy Callendar noted that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere would cause global warming.  

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Scorched Lungs!

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Barbara McMichael
October 06, 2025

Firefighters’ scorched lungs don’t figure in Trump’s scorched earth policies. Twenty-first century megafires have become the new normal in many places, including across the American West. According to figures provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, an average of well over six million acres of wildlands have burned every year over the last decade, and with unabated high emissions of greenhouse gases, theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects that the risk of very large wildfires could increase by up to six-fold by mid-century. 

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Book Review: The Overstory by Richard Powers

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Patricia Vaccarino
January 26, 2025

The Overstory is not an ordinary environmental tale. Author Richard Powers has architected a powerful message that could have only been crafted by a master writer. This is an important book that will stand the test of time, hopefully for all eternity if we, trees and humans, are able to soldier on.

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Toward a New Social Contract for Our Endangered Species

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Peter Corning
January 16, 2025

Accelerating climate change, and an array of other serious global problems and conflicts, prompting some theorists to warn of a “societal collapse”, suggest that the time has come for a new, global social contract, including what I am calling a “global governance initiative.”  Here is a brief summary of this situation, and of my prescription.

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