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— A self-avowed “radical feminist” is blaming so-called ‘man-made’ climate change on too few women aborting their children. In an interview with Refinery29, 1960’s feminist icon Gloria Steinem began with the debunked population explosion myth. “What causes climate deprivation is population,” she said, echoing the current liberal spin. She then tied her pet issue, unrestricted government-funded abortion and its global coercion, with the standard “Florida-is-sinking-into-the-ocean” fearmongering: “If we had not been systematically forcing women to have children they don’t want or can’t care for over the 500 years of patriarchy, we wouldn’t have the climate problems that we have. That’s...

Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly desperate families searched for missing loved ones. “These tunnels are big enough to drive trucks through,” said Jakob Steiner, a geoscientist at the University of Graz in Austria based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. “And from what we understand, they have managed to get oxygen to some of those stuck inside and are trying to rescue them now. It’s a race for time, though, as people...

The devastating flash flood that has ripped through the border communities of Nepal and Tibet has heightened fears that the climate crisis is destabilising the geology of mountain and polar regions, threatening millions of people. Satellite imagery suggests a glacier collapse high in the Himalayas was the primary cause of the deadly torrent of mud, water and ice that tore along the Bhotekoshi River on Wednesday. It swept away buildings and roads and left at least 360 dead and 1,400 missing. A magnitude 4.4 earthquake was initially blamed for the collapse. However, it is now thought to have been caused...

What a difference a few years make. Not long ago, politicians said climate change was going to kill us, so we must move to “net zero” emissions. This is theoretically possible: Since vegetation removes carbon, we could get to net zero by burning fewer fossil fuels. Governments everywhere pledged to do just that. President Joe Biden and European leaders promised “net zero by 2050.” For a while, it seemed like it might happen. Spain invested billions in its solar-power grid; Germany claimed to get most of its power from renewables. But now they realize that they made a mistake. European...

just pure coincidence..these names are chosen years in advance. Still kind of strange.

Surveillance footage showed people attempting to flee seconds before a devastating mudslide engulfed the border

AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha A massive disaster struck the Nepal-Tibet border Wednesday morning. Hundreds of tourists and locals are missing as a massive flash flood swept through villages along the border. The flash flood which has devastated settlements in northern Nepal was caused by an earthquake triggering a large landslide which blocked the Bhote Koshi river, according to Nepal’s foreign minister Shishir Khanal. “An earthquake occurred at 8:37 a.m. today, and due to it, a large landslide occurred, blocking the river, which appears to have caused the flood,” Khanal said during a meeting at the House of Representatives. The video footage...

If you are over the age of fifty, you might hear the words "Gary, Indiana" and instantly think of The Music Man. Gary, Indiana, shall we say, has changed. The Chicagoland suburb has been struck by an electricity blackout that lasted over 12 days. Things have gotten so bad that the dire situation even made the CBS Evening News. The usual suspects took to social media to blame a familiar scapegoat for the blackout: racism. In a now-deleted post, an X user going by the handle @BlvckJxsus wrote (uncensored here): "gary indiana has been w/o power for 11 days. gary...

At least 30 people were killed in a massive landslide in Guinea on Sunday when a mountainous open-air landfill collapsed and buried nearby shacks, trapping numerous victims beneath a mass of garbage. The incident happened at Dar Es Salam, the largest waste dump in the West African country’s capital, Conakry, according to a report from The Associated Press. Guinea News reported that the weight of the waste caused a three-story building beneath it to cave in. Authorities said heavy rainfall also washed over the refuse overnight, creating hazardous conditions at the landfill, according to the AP Six people were seriously...

Escalating climate language: 25 years ago, 28°C was “pleasant”…today it is called “extremely dangerous”. The following video link compares two different forecasts for warm summer weather but are allegedly from a couple of decades apart. I can’t be sure of their authenticity, but the language tone differences between back then and today are definitely accurate! Today, the media make summertime in Germany appear as extremely dangerous! https://www.facebook.com/reel/3540458259445428 25 years ago… The first forecast by the German weather lady is from a couple of decades ago. Here’s what she reported: Tomorrow we’ll be getting wonderful summer weather! Temperatures will rise to...

An iconic southern landmark went up in flames on Friday morning. If you've ever vacationed in Panama City Beach, Florida (as most of the Southeast has), you're almost certainly aware of the "shark store," a shop called Jaws Souvenirs on the way to the Florida coast. Welp. It's a goner. VIDEO AT LINK.......... This thing went up like a firework. Here's WSFA: Officials say the Bay County Sheriff's Office was also on scene to assist with traffic. Officials say the eastbound and westbound lanes are currently closed and ask drivers to avoid the area from Upas St. to Walnut St....

A charter plane has crashed at a remote site in western Alaska, killing all eight people onboard, according to reports. The aircraft went down on Thursday, Aug. 20, at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, which is around 450 miles west of Anchorage, according to the Associated Press (AP). Two pilots and six passengers were onboard the plane, Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)’s Alaskan chief, told the outlet. Johnson said the plane had taken off from Anchorage and was believed to have crashed while traveling to Cape Newenham. “This is a devastating loss for our military...

The man is believed to have been hiking in the isolated Rocca Capra area of the volcano, in the Valle del Bove, around 1,400 metres above sea level.A 29-year-old American tourist has died after being hit by lightning while hiking on Mount Etna in Sicily. The man was struck on Sunday as a severe thunderstorm swept across the volcano. He was rushed to a hospital in Catania by a firefighter helicopter but was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been made public. An emergency call came in shortly before 8 pm. He had been in the isolated Rocca Capra...

The number of bison being hit on roads in the N.W.T. appears to be on the decline. From 2021 to 2025, the N.W.T. Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) recorded 60 collisions with bison. So far in 2026 however, there has been only one. Terry Armstrong, Bison Ecologist with ECC, says the territory may actually have wildfires to thank for those statistics. “The immediate effect of fire is that bison change where they're spending their time,” he said. “Bison have a habit of moving into recently burnt areas and benefiting from those.” He says they can start to return...

At least one person was killed in a storm-related car crash on Hawaii’s Big Island as Hurricane Lala struck late Saturday night. Gov. Josh Green confirmed the death, along with 19 roofs ripped off buildings after what he described as an “enormous storm.” Powerful waves pounded the Big Island’s coast as Lala slowly passed by. Howling winds whipped palm trees and waterways swelled with fast-moving runoff from relentless rain that blew nearly sideways. Lala was downgraded to a tropical storm as of Sunday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. More than 130,000 households were without power Sunday morning across...

Fire crews beg: stop the snitching as emergency system faces “crying wolf” backlash Millions of phones across England and Wales blared a sudden siren on Friday evening as the government unleashed its emergency alert system over ‘wildfire risk’. What followed was a wave of neighbour-on-neighbour reporting that left fire services and police inundated with non-emergency calls about barbecues in gardens and parks. The same compliant instincts that flourished during COVID appear alive and well. The alert, described by First Secretary of State Louise Haigh as “the most extensive use of the UK’s emergency alert system in response to an active...

ne giant dam has already nudged the way our planet turns. When the enormous Three Gorges Dam reservoir in China filled with tens of billions of tons of water, NASA calculations showed that the extra mass made each day about 0.06 microseconds longer and shifted Earth’s rotation axis by roughly 2 centimeters. Now Beijing is moving ahead with an even more ambitious project on the Tibetan Plateau. A new hydropower complex planned for Medog County in Tibet is expected to become the largest dam system on the planet, with an annual output roughly three times that of Three Gorges and...

The warnings were issued in Florida and Louisiana, where state officials have confirmed at total 23 cases so far. Health officials are urging Gulf Coast beach-goers to take precautions when entering the water during a summer surge of infections from a flesh-eating bacteria that has been attributed to seven deaths. The warnings were issued in Florida and Louisiana, where state officials have confirmed nine cases this year of Vibrio vulnificus infections, including five deaths, according to PBS.com. Louisiana reported an average of seven cases and one death, over the same period over the previous decade. Florida has reported at least...

2026's El Niño is on course to be the most severe on record, even hotter than the 1997/98 event that caused trillions in damage and thousands of deaths. An El Niño event like nothing we’ve ever seen before is cooking in the Pacific. Its mounting strength is so unprecedented that climate scientists aren't even sure what impact it will have when it hits full tilt, but they say this “uncharted territory” should be a cause for concern. What is El Niño? And why is 2026 so weird? El Niño is a climate phenomenon characterized by warmer ocean temperatures across the...

Typhoon Dolphin has cut power to at least 44,000 buildings and injured at least five people after hitting Japan's Okinawa island on Saturday. Flights to and from Okinawa's main airport - Naha International Airport - were cancelled as it closed on Friday as the storm arrived. The storm had maximum wind speeds of 162km/h (101mph) on Saturday and has been categorised as a "very strong" typhoon by the Japan Meteorological Agency, which warned of high waves, storm surges and lightning strikes. Dolphin is expected to make landfall on China's eastern coast late on Sunday or early on Monday. Authorities there...