We’re broadcasting here inside the U.N. climate summit in Madrid, Spain. Hundreds of protesters are right behind me, just next to our set, calling for climate justice. You can hear the chants. You can hear what they are saying. They are chanting. They’ve got banners. Tom, can you describe for us what you’re seeing right…
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Global Warming and Extreme Cold: How One Leads to the Other
GREGORY WILPERT: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Gregory Wilpert coming to you from Quito, Ecuador. It’s official: 2017 was the costliest year on record for weather and climate disasters in the U.S., exceeding $300 billion. This shatters the previous U.S. annual record cost of $214.8 billion established in 2005 due to the impacts…
Nestlé Looks To Increase Fresh Water Extraction In Florida As Scarcity Rises
Fresh water scarcity is a growing concern across many US households. And Nestle’s managed to send alarm bells ringing among environmental activists in Florida for fighting against the company’s request to dramatically increase how much fresh water it extracts for bottling every year. I have legal journalist Mollye Barrows here to walk us through this….
The true cost of the military-industrial complex.
This video is sponsored by Brilliant. It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room. The single most polluting industry in the world. The military. Specifically, the U.S. military, because the U.S. war machine currently has a yearly budget of over $700 billion, which dwarfs the military spending of the next 8 countries combined…
Washington Week | Discussing the intersection of politics and the environment | PBS
ROBERT COSTA: Fires in the Amazon rainforest to the receding white ice of the Arctic. Climate change confronts global leaders. This is the Washington Week Extra. Hello. I’m Robert Costa. Tonight we discuss the increasingly urgent intersection of politics and the environment. It was a week of promises, acrimony, and environmental upheaval. G-7 countries pledged…
5,000,000 Gallons of Raw Sewage Spilled into Naugatuck River
whoooosh *click* Hi guys this is Eric Bierce with Truth Against The Machine I’m reporting here from Waterbury Connecticut and we’ve had a five million gallon raw sewage spill into the Naugatuck River and it’s really bad like the water the water be observer actually went down and took some pictures and and John Murray…
Study: Loss of Stratocumulus Clouds Could Precipitate Extreme Global Warming
DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris, reporting for The Real News Network from Montreal, Canada.Scientists have known for some time that about 56 million years ago the Earth experienced a brief, cataclysmic hot spell now known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM. After heat-trapping carbon leaked into the sky from an unknown source, the…