Dave Levitan

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Photo via Copernicus Climate Change Service/Wikimedia Commons

It is called “a month’s worth of rain” because it is supposed to take a month to come down. In Spain this week, it took 24 hours.

These days, any news about the world’s coral reefs tends to be bad news. Global bleaching events, the Great Barrier Reef in dire straits — studies have consistently projected and experience as the planet warms has borne out that these biodiversity hot spots are in serious trouble.

It is almost done. After a truly absurd amount of time, Election Day nears, and while I refuse to believe there are more than a handful of detached weirdos out there still pondering which of the two presidential candidates to vote for, there are likely quite a few who might still be nudged out the door to bother.

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

The Atlantic hurricane season technically runs through the end of November. Storms forming that late are relatively rare, but they do happen, and can be fairly destructive even as the ocean’s heat — hurricane fuel — has begun to ebb. One such storm may be on the way now.

The international climate negotiations process that takes place at the meetings known as COPs every year is, in theory, a truly multilateral one. One country, one vote — the agreements that emerge from each of the conferences must be agreed upon by every nation in attendance. Of course, some countries carry a bit more weight than others.