Do you have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, as part of our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. I still remember the phone call during my senior year of college at Stanford when the Microsoft recruiter offered me a job. I had to ask him to repeat the salary amount several times …
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will give three indigenous tribes $75 million to move away from coastal areas or rivers, one of the nation’s largest efforts yet to relocate communities facing an urgent threat from climate change . The three communities – two in Alaska and one in Washington state – will each receive $25 …
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For Indigenous Peoples, defending our rights to clean air and water, continuing to live off the land, and protecting the sanctity of Mother Earth is the fight of our lives. Sadly, communities like mine continue to be ignored at every turn and left to fend for themselves as the devastating effects of our current energy …
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The just-concluded climate summit in Egypt hit head-on with one of the world’s biggest structural problems: most of the money is in the North, but most of the needs are found in the South. Nearly three hundred years of burning fossil fuels have produced much of this Northern wealth, and now the resulting greenhouse gases …
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 public domain For people trying to reduce their carbon footprint in the world, flying is an enigma. It’s wonderful to visit family and see new places, but air travel also contributes to carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming. Commercial jets and large business jets account for about 10% of transportation emissions in …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 public domain For people trying to reduce their carbon footprint in the world, flying is an enigma. It’s wonderful to visit family and see new places, but air travel also contributes to carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming. Commercial jets and large business jets account for about 10% of transportation emissions in …
Emissions rise from the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant in Kansas, USA, in 2021. | Photo credit: AP The story so far:At the G-20 summit in Bali, wealthy countries including the United States, Japan and Canada pledged $20 billion to wean Indonesia off coal. The United States and Japan have led the International Partners …
