by Amy Goodman | Feb 24, 2026 | Bomb Cyclone, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Endangerment Finding, Extreme Weather, funding cuts, Interview, scientific research, Trump Administration
As the Northeast United States contends with the aftermath of a historic bomb cyclone blizzard that blanketed the region, we speak to climate scientist Michael Mann about the causes and effects of increasingly intense weather events. “We expect to see that increase as long as we continue to warm up the planet by burning fossil fuels and putting carbon pollution into the atmosphere,” says Mann.
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by Rudi Keller | Jan 27, 2026 | Administrative Segregation, Extreme Weather, Missouri, News, Prison Labor, snowstorm
With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways. He refused, telling the corrections officer directing him to go outside that he has been enrolled in education programs and is exempt from labor assignments. That is not what the prison…
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by Chris Walker | Jan 27, 2026 | Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, Environment, extreme cold, Extreme Weather, News, Polar Vortex
In a Truth Social post last week, President Donald Trump questioned the existence of the climate crisis, citing extreme cold weather that was set to hit the country over the weekend. “Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before,” Trump said, before delving into his skepticism. “Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Dec 22, 2025 | anti-science, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, National Center for Atmospheric Research, News, scientific research, Trump Administration, Wildfires
On December 16, USA Today broke the news that the Trump administration was planning to eliminate the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). According to a tweet by Russell Vought, an architect of Project 2025 and current director of the Office of Management and Budget, the administration had determined that the Colorado-based center was a hub for “climate alarmism.
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by Yereth Rosen | Oct 18, 2025 | Alaska, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Disasters, Displacement, EPA, Extreme Weather, FEMA, Floods, Indigenous Peoples, National Weather Service, News, Trump Administration
After the latest catastrophic storm hit Western Alaska, displacing more than 1,500 people, killing at least one and leaving villages in ruins, residents face an existential crisis. Will the wide delta that fans out between the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers and has supported one of the circumpolar north’s largest Indigenous populations for millennia continue to be a place where Alaska’s…
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