Writing in the Los Angeles Times, two top university investment officials said it was the long-term risk posed by fossil fuel investments, rather than concerns over the environment, that led them to pull some $150 million in fossil fuel assets from the university endowment. Climate scientists say warmer ocean temperatures driven by greenhouse gas emissions are making hurricanes and other extreme weather events more destructive.On Capitol Hill, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg pleaded with a congressional committee Wednesday to listen to climate scientists’ warnings about catastrophic climate change.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” — Technology Meets Creativity on Women’s Empowerment PlatformSouth Sudan - COVID-19 and Ongoing Violence has Catastrophic Effects on CiviliansEnergy Cooperatives Swim Against the Tide in MexicoPowerplay in Paradise: Sino-Indian Tussle in the MaldivesFridays for Future: how the young climate movement has grown since Greta Thunberg's lone protest It was 2003 and Kurosaka, then a graduate student of sociology at the Saitama University in Japan, had been assigned to interview ex-patients and their family members to document what kind of discrimination they faced. Iran has denied responsibility, but Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told Senate Democrats have warned Trump against any attack on Iran, saying he would need authorization from Congress. Two decades have passed by since the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted, by consensus and without reservation, its landmark and norm-setting Sep 09 (IPS) - August is immensely important in the history of the Asian subcontinent, marking the month that India and Pakistan MANILA, Sep 08 (IPS) - Professor Ai Kurosaka remembers the day she first interacted with a person affected by Hansen's disease.
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We’ll have more on the climate crisis after headlines with Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International’s secretary general.The University of California has voted to divest from fossil fuel companies. We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is blaming Iran for last weekend’s attacks on Saudi oil facilities, describing them as an “act of war.” Pompeo was speaking from Jeddah, where he met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss the airstrikes which heavily damaged one of the world’s biggest oil processing facilities.
The report calls on world leaders to take rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented action to avert a climate catastrophe.More than a million students are expected to walk out of classes in over 150 countries on Friday in a Global Climate Strike, with more than 800 actions in the United States alone.
A local official said a drone attack was aimed at a hideout used by Islamic State fighters but instead killed farmworkers who’d finished a hard day’s labor harvesting pine nuts.
350.org founder Bill McKibben tweeted that the presidents of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of Michigan and others should follow suit, adding, “If the biggest system in the country has decided it must sell its oil stock, the pressure on these guys will go way up.”In Israel, the party of election challenger Benny Gantz has rejected an offer by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to join him in a unity government. Please do your part today.Democracy Now! Awareness Should be the Priority in Public Health Efforts against Leprosy Monday, September 09, 2019. Atkinson reportedly agreed that the concern was credible and troubling enough to alert congressional oversight committees, but Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to share details of the complaint with lawmakers.
According to the Post, Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted the unnamed official to file a complaint with Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community. What a news year 2019 was.