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Earth Day 2021: Athletes say climate change should be a hot topic in sportsThe world of sports is not hermetically sealed. Societal issues, economic concerns, political disputes, and, yes, the climate, all permeate the games we watch and play....

Italian Youth Soccer Coach Fired For Calling Greta Thunberg A "Whore" On FacebookFourth-division Italian soccer club Grosseto fired youth coach Tommaso Casalini this week after he called 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg a “whore” who “can take a pounding” in a Facebook comment, according to Football Italia....

Japanese Scientists Are Trying To Keep 'Guerilla Rainstorms' From Ruining The Olympics<em></em>What’s worse than rain on your wedding day or on your parade? Rain during your outdoor athletic event at the Olympics....

Do Not Blot Out The Sun

Probably nothing anyone does at this point stands more than a remote chance of averting any but the very most extreme, apocalyptic tolls humanity’s trashing of the planet could inflict on the global ecosystem and human society within the next few decades. The time when people could have addressed th...

This Is Just What It's Always Going To Be Like Now

It never takes much. Tubbs started when some power lines blew over. All it took for Carr to roar to life was a flat tire. Thomas was born of a utility malfunction. Camp was probably the same. Their beginnings almost don’t matter, since the story of each of those historic wildfires, and all the fires...

Global Warming Is In Your Sports Now

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Trent Dilfer Doesn't Believe In Climate Change, Or The Link Between CTE And Football

Former NFL QB and talking head Trent Dilfer—a man who once told Colin Kaepernick to “be quiet and sit in the shadows”—has struck again with some of his Good Stuff. This time, it’s regarding both climate change and the link between football and CTE. ...

ThinkProgress and others take issue with Roger Pielke, Jr., a new contributing science writer at FiveThirtyEight, who was last seen on the receiving end of a six-page thumper of a White House response about his positions on the California drought. Give this some time, but it hasn't gone great out of...