The impact of climate change is already being felt in the Western Isles of Scotland. Rising sea levels and powerful storms are eroding the dunes and machair land that protects many low-lying communities. BBC Scotland News spoke to Uist crofter Iain Macdonald, whose land is slowly being consumed by the sea.
Speaking to G20 leaders for the final time on Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump used the opportunity to defend his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a move that took effect on Nov. 4 a day after the U.S. election. Trump said, without offering any evidence, that the air in the U.S. was seven per cent cleaner than it was when he took office and that U.S. renewable energy capacity had increased by more than 30 per cent, even as the U.S. became the top oil and natural gas producer in the world. “Every day we’re proving that we can protect our workers, create new jobs and safeguard the environment without imposing crippling mandates and one-sided international agreements on our citizens,” he said.
John Podhoretz, Editor, Commentary Magazine; Columnist, New York Post; NBC News Contributor, says that conservatives have to resist going too far down the path to “crazy town.”
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania, saying it contained “strained legal argument without merit.”
A powerful trick is forcing governments to keep quiet about a toxic threat that’s killing more than Coronavirus.
Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have fled the northern region of Tigray into Sudan, as a deadly conflict rages between Ethiopian Defence Forces (EDF) and Tigray regional armed forces after months of rising tensions between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the ruling coalition in Addis Ababa. Earlier in the week, Ethiopia’s growing conflict that began in early November has resulted in more than 25,300 refugees fleeing the Tigray region into Sudan, the UN refugee agency said Monday, as fighting spilled beyond Ethiopia’s borders and threatened to inflame the Horn of Africa region. More than 5,000 additional refugees arrived in Sudan’s border provinces of Kassala and al-Qadarif on Sunday, the highest single-day number of arrivals since the start of the conflict, the UNHCR said. As Redmond Shannon reports, both sides are being accused of stoking tensions that have led to a staggering humanitarian crisis.
The two countries have agreed to ‘roll over’ the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
President Trump’s dangerous efforts to “gum up” the election process is leading too many Americans not to accept the results of the 2020 election, Michael Smerconish says, because his enablers remain unwilling to tell the emperor he has no clothes.
Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies pledged co-operation as they continue to grapple with a pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of more than 1 million people globally and has devastated countries’ economies. Speaking during a two-day virtual G20 Summit, leaders stressed the importance of strengthening the World Health Organization (WHO) and implored their counterparts to make any potential vaccines accessible to countries across the globe. Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country was ready to provide its COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, which it said last week was 92 per cent effective, to any countries that need it. G20 leaders also expressed concern that the pandemic might further deepen global divisions between rich and poor countries.