Deirdre Fulton

Throughout the battle against the聽Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), the 聽US$3.78 billion pipeline that will carry about 500,000 barrels of oil a day, indigenous campaigners and supporters repeatedly warned聽it was聽not a question of聽if, but聽飞丑别苍听a breach would occur.

Now, before the pipeline is even fully operational, those warnings have come to fruition.

. Teacher training, after-school, and summer聽. The National Endowment for the Arts. The Appalachian Regional Commission.聽. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).聽

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped for US Education Secretary , a conservative billionaire who 鈥渄oes not hide her contempt for the public schools,鈥澛犅爃istorian Diane Ravitch.

Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein accepted the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize on November 11, delivering a searing speech that reflected on Donald Trump's presidential victory in the United States and the factors that allowed it to happen.

Marking a grim milestone, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) that 2016 is the deadliest year ever for migrants trying to reach Europe.

The agency said on October 26 that at least 3800 migrants 鈥 many of them fleeing war in their home countries 鈥 have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year. This is despite a in attempted crossings compared to last year.


Thousands of people took to the streets on October 3聽against plans for a total ban on abortion in Warsaw, Poland.

As one presidential candidate faces charges for spray-painting construction equipment at a Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protest on September 6, many are calling for President Barack Obama and White House Democrat presidential candidate Hilary Clinton to oppose the controversial project.

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein would be charged for taking part in an action in which 150 to 200 people protested at a DAPL worksite in North Dakota.

Human-caused global warming has worsened California's extreme four-year drought by as much as 25%, says a new study that is just the latest to link the abnormally dry conditions with human-caused climate change. The study by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, published on August 20 in Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that within a few decades, continually rising temperatures and resulting moisture losses will push California into even more persistent aridity.