Climate

Ignoring Threat of Rising Seas, Trump Eliminates Flood Risk Standards

Critics Condemn Trump Administration's "Assault on America's Water Resources"

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Scientists and environmentalists are condemning the Trump administration for waging war on regulations that aim to preserve U.S. water resources. "The Republican Party is moving rapidly to become the party of dirty water." —Peter Gleick, U.S. National Academy of Science "Candidate and now President Donald Trump claimed he'd work to promote clean...

Universal Basic Income Needed to Break 'Addiction to Economic Growth Killing Us'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

As some tech giants throw their weight behind the idea of a universal basic...

Keystone XL Foes Vow to Put Their Bodies on the Line to Protect the Planet

Jake Johnson, staff writer

As Nebraska's Keystone XL pipeline hearings came to a close on Thursday,...

Denier-in-Chief Trump Should Read NOAA's Frightening New Climate Report

Emails Show USDA Staff Told to 'Avoid' Term 'Climate Change' Under Trump

"Ready to Stop It Again": KXL Opponents Flood Nebraska Capitol

New Report Reveals Water Threats Posed by the "Dirty Three's" Pipeline Routes

Trump's War on Science Forces Federal Officials to Consider Polluters' Demands

'Earth Is Exhausted': Humans Have Already Consumed the Planet's Annual Resources

Trump Bulldozes Environmental Laws to Pave Way for 'Xenophobic' Border Wall

Green Groups Celebrate as Court Orders EPA to Reinstate Obama-Era Methane Rule

Climate Science Out, Coal In: EPA Exhibit Will Reflect Trump's Agenda

It's Electric: LA First Major US City to Pledge Full Bus Fleet Conversion

Utilities Knew, Too: Despite Warning Decades Ago, Industry Lied and Deceived on Climate

Environmentalists Urge Democrats to Join Sanders in Opposing Dirty Energy Bill

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Note To WSJ: Never Mind Your Nuclear Stock Tips For “Highly Dovish Forward Guidance.” On Account of Everyone Being, You Know, Dead

We can't even. As tensions with North Korea escalate, the bloodless souls at the Wall Street Journal wrote a piece analyzing how the stock market would fare in an all-out nuclear war. Buy yen and bunds, they say, and don't mind "t he yield curve would likely flatten," along with the world. People have been duly horrified, conceding a likely bullish market on canned goods, iodine tablets and cockroaches but noting, in the end, "The dead don't care about markets."