Sinclair Broadcast Group executives reprimanded and ultimately ousted a local news reporter who refused to seed doubt about man-made climate change and “balance” her stories in a more conservative direction. Her account, detailed in company documents she provided to BuzzFeed News, offers a glimpse at the inner workings of a media giant that has sought to both ingratiate itself to President Donald Trump and cast itself as an apolitical local news provider — a position the docu

by Joe Romm Last month was the warmest August globally since records began being kept in 1880, NASA reported Monday. The globe just keeps warming. While it may have seemed like a cool August in this country, the NASA chart shows it was actually just “normal” or very close to the 1951-1980 average over most of the U.S. (other than the warm West, of course). But we’ve become so used to the “new normal” of global warming that when the old normal returns locally, it feels unnatur

By: Joseph Hall News reporter, Published on Sat Sep 13 2014 Cartoon creatures populate the books Naomi Klein reads most often these days. “All the books are about animals,” the Toronto author says of the bedtime stories she shares with her 2-year-old son, Toma. “And at a certain point it just struck me that so many of the books . . . were about animals that are facing (climate related) extinction crises and that he may never see some of the animals he’s reading about.” Still,