Long before rising seas wash over San Francisco’s shores and flood its streets, rising groundwater mixed with salt water from the bay could touch and degrade underground structures like sewage lines and building foundations. SAN FRANCISCO vs. CLIMATE CHANGE In a year featuring a contentious presidential re-match, a heated mayoral… Continue reading
TECHNOLOGY An international treaty aims to bring the shipping industry to net-zero emissions by around 2050. Can novel fuels, wind power and coordination on a global scale get it there? By Elise Hansen 11.20.2023 (knowablemagazine.org) Support sound science and smart storiesHelp us make scientific knowledge accessible to allDonate today Lea en español… Continue reading
Daria Shulzhenko/The Kyiv Independent Pavlo Petrychenko was a well-known activist and junior sergeant of the 59th Brigade. He was killed in combat on April 15, 2024, just a day before his 32nd birthday. (photo: Prytula Foundation/Viktor Zalevskiy) 21 april 24 (RSN.org) In his battle for Ukraine, Pavlo Petrychenko used not… Continue reading
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)(left) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.)(right)—seen here on March 22, 2023 in the U.S. Capitol—were driving forces behind the passage of the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) “The Make Everyone A Spy provision will be abused,… Continue reading
Demonstrators calling for no funding for Israel in the conflict in Gaza are seen outside the U.S. Capitol before the House passed the foreign aid package on Saturday, April 20, 2024. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) “Most Americans do not want our government to write a blank… Continue reading
Joan E Greve, Alice Herman and Will Craft/Guardian UK Summer Lee, Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush. (photo: Reuters) 21 april 24 (RSN.org) Aipac and other groups targeting candidates critical of Israel’s war in Gaza – but progressives are not going down without a fight Pro-Israel groups are pumping millions into… Continue reading
Nick Niedzwiadek/Politico People celebrate after the UAW received enough votes to form a union at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant. (photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty) 21 april 24 (RSN.org) The vote by workers at a Chattanooga VW plant to join the union tested its renewed organizing effort in the South amid GOP… Continue reading
Kareem Fahim and Beril Eski/Washington Post The Akdeniz ship anchored in Istanbul’s Tuzla, on Friday, 19 April 2024. (photo: Yusuf Selman Inanc/MEE) 21 april 24 (RSN.org) Aflotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip is preparing to sail from Turkey in the coming days, organizers say, on a mission aimed… Continue reading
PDAMERICA • Streamed live 8 hours ago The team from Young Progressive Democrats of America (YPDA) is bringing you a very special Earth Day Town Hall this Sunday, focusing on a nationwide movement that has come to be known as Youth v Gov. First, hosts Hartzell Gray and William Walter… Continue reading
Posted on April 21, 2024 by SF Forest Alliance The Natural Resources Department (NRD) of SF Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) is planning to cut down mature trees in McLaren Park. Of course people are upset. These photographs were sent us by a supporter of the trees. This beautiful old tree has an… Continue reading
