The Biden administration is expected to announce a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, meaning that no government officials will attend the games but athletes still will. Canada was, weeks ago, discussions with its closest partners to organize a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Three pro-Tibet protestors have been arrested in Greece for advocating …

The Pope has called on young people to protect the environment, encouraging them to “be the critical conscience of society.” India has 46 of the world’s most polluted cities, while China has 42. It is no coincidence, then, that India forced the COP26 climate deal to change its language on reducing coal emissions, replacing the …

Massive protests have broken out across Europe, its citizens fed up with COVID lockdowns. In the US, Florida Republicans have approved a bill that will dramatically limit Biden’s vaccine mandate. Meanwhile, like San Francisco and New York, Los Angeles has enacted a vaccine mandate, but LA’s is much stricter. Most types of businesses and public buildings …

The FDA has approved Moderna and Pfizer booster shots for all adults. As a result, in the near future, it may take three shots for a person to be considered “fully vaccinated.” Pfizer has asked the FDA to okay boosters for all adults. Pfizer’s CEO announced that the government ordered enough COVID vaccine doses for …

The FDA has recalled 2 million COVID tests after they delivered inaccurately positive results. An FDA advisory panel unanimously recommended (including one abstention) that kids aged 5-11 get the low-dose version of Pfizer’s vaccine. Almost one month ago, Pfizer sent data tot he FDA in order to get approval for vaccines among children 5 to …

Greta Thunberg has called the COP26 climate conference a failure. “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve a crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” she said. As if to make her point, Japan has refused to …

The president of Taiwan has said that the threat from China is increasing every day, and she has confirmed that there are US military trainers assisting the Taiwanese. Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to achieve a “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, despite the threatening presence of Chinese fighters in Taiwanese airspace over the past …

According to internal documents, Facebook was unprepared to handle the “Stop the Steal” movement, despite CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s downplaying. Facebook is planning to reduce the amount of political news that shows up on peoples feeds, according to Nick Clegg, vice president for global affairs and communications at Facebook. Immediately after being named a recipient of …

A major document leak has revealed that wealthy nations like Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Australia (among others) are pressuring the UN to slow their shift away from climate change. Wealthy nations are also questioning why they should pay poor countries to shift towards green technologies. A metastudy of of nearly 90,000 climate studies reveal that …

The state of Maine won’t be giving unemployment checks to employees fired for refusing the COVID vaccine. Major hospital systems in Ohio are requiring COVID vaccines for organ transplants, adding to the increasing number of organizations that require vaccines. Southwest has recently become the latest airline to require vaccines, joining an ever-growing number of organizations …

The COVID death toll in the United States has reached 700,000. Canadian psychologists tracking pandemic anxiety since March 2020 report that higher levels of anxiety persists, even though life is returning to normal. Partly responsible: continued news of rising COVID cases. The rate of daily COVID deaths has climbed to the highest levels since March. …

The world has lost half of its coral reefs since the 1950s, according to a recent study. More than 220 medical journals have warned that climate change is causing such harm to peoples’ health that we cannot wait for the pandemic to end before taking drastic action. Scientists have warned that a glacier in the …