Mitchell G. Patton

US greenhouse gas emissions increased by about 1.3% in 2022, rebounding for the second year in a row after disruptions caused by the pandemic in high-emitting industries like shipping and travel. That's according to a preliminary analysis by the Rhodium Group, a research company that tracks annual emissions and US progress toward its climate goals. Emissions fell by around 10.6% in 2020 as the US acknowledged the consequences of the pandemic. As the economy picked up in 2021, so did US greenhouse gases, rising 6.5%. Before the pandemic, emissions were slightly down. The new analysis suggests that emissions are back…

On Monday afternoon, protesters chanted "No to amnesty!" at the University of Sao Paulo law school, demanding that the instigators of the riots be brought to justice, according to the Associated Press. It soon became the rallying cry of thousands of people in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, visible on billboards and banners.“These people must be punished, the people who ordered it must be punished, those who gave money for it must be punished,” Bety Amin, a 61-year-old therapist with the word “DEMOCRACY” stretched across her back. of her T-shirt, she told the news agency on Sao Paulo's main…