Mark Gongloff

5 days ago | pilotonline.com | Mark Gongloff

Most climate-change deniers don’t even bother fighting the established science anymore: The planet is warming, human activity is the cause, and we can do something about it if we really try. Modern deniers will concede all that, but fire back that the “do something about it” part is too hard, too expensive to be worth trying. We have to be pragmatic, they’ll say, and keep burning fossil fuels to make life easier on people.

5 days ago | wvnews.com | Mark Gongloff

If one day you surveyed your kitchen cabinets and determined that you were running dangerously low on potato chips and therefore declared a potato chip emergency to your family, they’d look at you pretty funny if your next order was for them to eat every remaining potato chip as quickly as possible. That’s not how emergencies work!But this is President Donald Trump’s approach to the “energy emergency” he declared on his first day back in office.

5 days ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Mark Gongloff

In picking a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, the Vatican had a chance to honor the late Pope Francis' legacy as the greenest pope in modern history. In choosing the American (and Peruvian) Cardinal Robert Prevost - henceforth known as Pope Leo XIV - his fellow cardinals appear to have seized that opportunity. Humanity's hope of avoiding the worst of climate change can only benefit. We'll learn more about the pope's views in the days to come.

5 days ago | charlotteobserver.com | Mark Gongloff

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost from the main central loggia balcony of the St. Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) TNS In picking a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, the Vatican had a chance to honor the late Pope Francis' legacy as the greenest pope in modern history.

6 days ago | dailygazette.com | Mark Gongloff

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