Climate Scientists Project 2024 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record—and the First to Pass 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming

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After November 2024 was the second warmest November in the books, experts say the year is “effectively certain” to break the heat record set by 2023 Eli Wizevich December 9,…

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Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school in Pennsylvania on Monday to honor the resilience of Indigenous tribes whose children were forced…

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How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

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The decline of the American South’s cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions Shoshi ParksDecember…

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