"The pandemic has demonstrated that a privatized healthcare system cannot ensure the health of the population."
The new PBS documentary “Earth Emergency” is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand extreme weather's causes and what can be done about it.
"Climate change continues to push the envelope on what is possible all over the globe," said one meteorologist.
"This is the time to rise above short-term nationalism and protect populations and economies against future variants by ending global vaccine inequity," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
If we believe in democracy, economic success or basic survival, the world's media must send the message loud and clear.
New data shows stunning plunge in coverage, just as the humanitarian crisis—much of it caused by Washington sanctions—peaks.
In the New Year, we must rays awareness, seas the moment and sand together for cod and country and from sea to shining sea.
Blatant racial discrimination has driven hundreds of thousands of good, Black farmers off the land.
"Instead of providing meaningful labeling," warns the Center for Food Safety, new USDA rules "will only create more uncertainty for consumers, retailers, and manufacturers."
The time has come for drastic measures to protect the environment and save the world from a climate catastrophe.
"These books are there to give our kids the language that they need to express how they are already feeling, and that's it," said one LGBTQ+ rights advocate. "And if we take those books away from their libraries, then we're saying...that they are alone in those schools."
"The FDA and Merck have essentially engaged the public in a gamble without public debate," argues Stanford University's Michael Lin.
To keep acting as if there wasn't war declared against the planet and humanity is to accept we are already defeated. Continuing to play their game can only guarantee collapse. It's time to flip the table.
"The future of our country is sacrificed at the altar of the filibuster. Something must change," the former Senate majority leader wrote in 2019.
"2021 is ending on a tragic note for Yemenis, millions of whom are struggling with poverty, hunger, and severe restrictions on their freedom of movement."
"People are activated and waking up and realizing that this is not something we can take for granted," said one advocate for a Vermont constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights.
Voters who helped elect Biden—and who he'll need to win reelection—are among the most affected by and concerned about climate.
