Greenland’s Ice Sheet has Melted Past the Point of No Return

Iranian-US History Double Feature: “Coup 53” and “Desert One”

This pair of solid films from seasoned documentarians will take you through a failed century.

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Treat Your Cookbooks Like Workbooks, Not Textbooks

The relationship between cook and cookbook should be interactive and inspirational. Home cooks should not hesitate to scribble in their books, making notes for future reference.

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Community Self-Love During Coronavirus – Yes! Magazine

The novel coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on communities around the world, especially  in the United States, which has experienced more than 4 million cases and 140,000 deaths in

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Android phones to become the world’s biggest earthquake detection grid

Google has started using the vast number of Android smartphones across the planet to help detect and warn people about seismic events. Your phone will begin transmitting accelerometer data if it detects something similar to an earthquake.

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Major hedge fund dumps oil companies for lobbying against climate action

That oil, gas, and mining companies extract resources while damaging the environment is already bad enough, but what is absolutely unacceptable is that some of these companies lobby against climate action. That’s why a Nordic hedge fund worth more than $90bn (£68.6bn) has dumped its stocks in some of the world’s biggest oil companies and miners responsible for lobbying against climate action. Storebrand, a Norwegian asset manager, divested from miner Rio Tinto, as well as US oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron, as part of a new climate policy targeting companies that use their political clout to block green policies. The investor is one of many major financial institutions divesting from polluting industries but is understood to be the first to dump shares in companies that use their influence to slow the pace of climate action. Jan Erik Saugestad, the chief executive of Storebrand, said corporate lobbying activity designed to undermine solutions to “the greatest risks facing humanity” is “simply unacceptable”. Storebrand will also divest from German chemicals company BASF and US electricity supplier Southern Company for lobbying against climate regulation, and a string of companies that derive more than 5% of their revenues from coal or oil sands. Now the hope is other investor groups will follow Storebrand’s lead in divesting from companies that support anti-climate lobbying “as part of a logical progression in global fossil fuel divestment”.

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The Dow Jones just dropped its oldest member: Exxon Mobil

In another sign that times “are a-changing’, the Dow Jones has dropped Exxon Mobil from its influential index. Why does this matter? Well, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the classic blue-chip stock index. Exxon Mobil is an iconic blue-chip stock and the longest-tenured member of the index. Exxon’s exclusion represents a big drop from the days where oil companies were kings of the stock market. The change is driven by Apple’s decision to split its stock, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices, which is responsible for the Dow. Its impact on Exxon will be more symbolic than substantive. But it reflects just how once-dominant Exxon has diminished.  Many oil companies are struggling on the stock market as climate concerns mount, Silicon Valley stocks massively outperform petroleum, and the coronavirus keeps global oil demand well below expectations. Then Exxon and Mobil merged in 1999, it was the biggest merger in history, creating the world’s largest privately-held oil company. For years, Exxon Mobil was the world’s largest publicly-traded company. Today, after the long rise of the tech giants and the abrupt collapse of the oil market, there are some three dozen companies more valuable than Exxon. And with time, there will be a whole lot more.

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This is How Animal Agriculture Causes Deforestation – One Green Planet

There’s really one thing you and everyone else can’t live without, and that’s trees!

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The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California

The Great Flood of 1861–1862 was a preview of what scientists expect to see again, and soon.

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The Shape-Shifting Squeeze Coolers

Push or crush a new class of materials, and they’ll undergo record-breaking temperature changes.

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