PexelsA new study is shedding light on just how much ice could be lost around Antarctica if the international community fails to urgently rein in planet-heating emissions, bolstering arguments for bolder climate policies.The study,  Thursday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that over a third of the area of all Antarctic ice shelves — including 67% of the area on the Antarctic Peninsula — could be at risk of collapsing if global temperatures soar to 4°C above pre-industrial levels.An , as NASA , “is a thick, floating slab of ice that forms where a...…PexelsA new study is shedding light on just how much ice could be lost around Antarctica if the international community fails to urgently rein in planet-heating emissions, bolstering arguments for bolder climate policies.The study,  Thursday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that over a third of the area of all Antarctic ice shelves — including 67% of the area on the Antarctic Peninsula — could be at risk of collapsing if global temperatures soar to 4°C above pre-industrial levels.An , as NASA , “is a thick, floating slab of ice that forms where a...WW…

December 3, 2020 11:07PM (UTC)--This article originally appeared at . It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.After a series of news reports that have alarmed civil liberties advocates and progressive lawmakers, the ACLU sued on Wednesday to find out how and why federal agencies are buying access to bulk databases of Americans' cell phone location information and effectively bypassing the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement."We're  to bring some much-needed transparency to these disturbing practices,"...…December 3, 2020 11:07PM (UTC)--This article originally appeared at . It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.After a series of news reports that have alarmed civil liberties advocates and progressive lawmakers, the ACLU sued on Wednesday to find out how and why federal agencies are buying access to bulk databases of Americans' cell phone location information and effectively bypassing the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement."We're  to bring some much-needed transparency to these disturbing practices,"...WW…

ShareEducation & YouthPrisons & PolicingRacial JusticePolitics & ElectionsPolitics & ElectionsEducation & YouthAn explosive Reuters revealed Friday “will mark the culmination of a three-year campaign to line up a secret supply chain to make and test lethal injection drugs.”The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 for federal executions to resume when it denied to hear an appeal from death row prisoners challenging the Trump administration’s lethal injection protocol. Inmates Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Ira Purkey, and Dustin Lee Honken are at a federal facility in Indiana just...…ShareEducation & YouthPrisons & PolicingRacial JusticePolitics & ElectionsPolitics & ElectionsEducation & YouthAn explosive Reuters revealed Friday “will mark the culmination of a three-year campaign to line up a secret supply chain to make and test lethal injection drugs.”The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 for federal executions to resume when it denied to hear an appeal from death row prisoners challenging the Trump administration’s lethal injection protocol. Inmates Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Ira Purkey, and Dustin Lee Honken are at a federal facility in Indiana just...WW…