Jane Little

Sep 30, 2024 | plumassun.org | Jane Little

Caleb Duerr, an inmate who escaped Sept. 27 from the Plumas County jail, is still at large despite a multi-agency four-day search. The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office has been using allied agencies with K-9 units and air operations in an effort to locate Duerr, said Plumas County Sheriff Todd Johns. Duerr is considered violent and dangerous.

May 27, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Jane Little |Andrew Glikson |Bill Henderson

World heat is worse than ever. The entire planet is sweating. Every summer is hot but never like this. In America, it’s a national election year in the face of global record heat. What are candidates’ positions on CO2-infused heat? Graph by Brian Brettschneider, PhD, ClimatologistIt’s extremely significant that global heat is just as bad in the world’s oceans, which have absorbed 85-90% of planetary heat, serving as a heat reservoir for decades. But now, the ocean’s starting to strut its hot stuff.

May 21, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Jane Little |Andrew Glikson |Bill Henderson

NAPM demands urgent government action to protect millions of outdoor workers from extreme heat and heatwaves, declaration of heatwaves as Climatic Disaster, and provision of disaster allowance to financially-affected workers21st May, 2024: Across India, the ‘election heat’ has caught up, which is rightly visible to all of us.

May 17, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Jane Little |Andrew Glikson |Bill Henderson

“Deep below the glistening surface of a frozen Arctic lake, something is bubbling—something that could cause global warming to accelerate beyond all previous projections… Now the freezer door is opening, releasing the carbon into Arctic lake bottoms. Microbes digest it, convert it to methane, and the lakes essentially burp out methane.’ Scientists estimate that permafrost holds up to 950 billion tons of carbon.

May 14, 2024 | rb.gy | Jane Little

When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, editor and publisher of The Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local newspapers represents a danger to democracy. Running the once-a-week Record from the Panhandle town of Canadian, Texas, she certainly knew something about the rise of “news deserts” in this country.