Daily Archives: November 17, 2019

UN Report Shows World's Pledges for Paris Are Recipe for Climate 'Disaster'

The latest United Nations (UN) analysis of the climate pledges of world governments reveals the commitments are not enough to avert “climate catastrophe,” green groups warned on Friday. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and German State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth presented in Berlin on Friday their report (pdf) on the effects of 146 participating countries’ Intended […]

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Crazy Hot Future Could Make Persian Gulf Unfit for Human Habitation

Should carbon emissions and global warming continue to rise unabated, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with “unprecedented events of deadly heat” within this century, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. “Our results expose a specific regional hotspot where climate change, in the absence of significant […]

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Remaking the Middle East: How the US Grew Tired and Less Irrelevant

Ramzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers, journals and anthologies around the world. His is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press, London). His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story […]

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Kendall Jenner Rocks Life of Pablo Pop-Up Shop Gear at Guns N’ Roses Concert

Kanye West excited fans the world over when he took to Twitter Wednesday night to announce that 21 Life of Pablo merchandise pop-up stores would be springing up around the globe this weekend only. It comes as no surprise that sister-in-law Kendall Jenner was one of the first to score some of the highly sought-after […]

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