Category: Climate

As the Middle East conflict sends fuel costs skyrocketing and threatens to put a dent in the global economy, the argument for reducing the world's dependence on oil and gas and moving towards renewables has grown louder.
Ships have been blocked – and in some cases burning – at the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage near Iran through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes. The key supply route has been effectively closed, stopping oil, gas and other essential exports from the Gulf region and sending commodities on a rollercoaster ride.
Skyrocketing oil and gas prices are leaving many countries rationing fuel and staring at rising food prices. The International Energy Agency is calling it the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
With no sign the conflict will end imminently, bodies including the UN have called for the world to reduce its dependence on oil and gas, with renewables cited as the most obvious alternative. “The resources of the..

President Donald Trump is set to pay his respects on Wednesday at a Delaware military base when the remains of six U.S. service members killed in the crash of a refueling aircraft are returned to their families.
It will be the second time since launching the war on Iran on Feb. 28 that the Republican president will attend the solemn military ritual known as a dignified transfer, which he once described as the “toughest thing” he has had to do as commander in chief.
All six crew members of a KC-135 Air Force refueling aircraft were killed last week in a plane crash over friendly territory in western Iraq while supporting operations against Iran. They were from Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Washington state.
The crash brought the U.S. death toll in Operation Epic Fury to at least 13 service members. About 200 U.S. service members have been injured, including 10 severely, the Pentagon has said.
Trump last traveled to Dover Air Force Base on March 7 for the dignified transfer of s..