Environment
Warned 30 years ago, global warming ‘is in our living room’
June 19, 2018Earth is noticeably hotter, the weather stormier and more extreme. Polar regions have lost billions of tons of ice; sea levels have been raised by trillions of gallons of water. Far more wildfires rage.
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Climate justice and economy: Demands at NYC’s Puerto Rican Day Parade
June 14, 2018Under cloudy skies with an intermittent drizzle, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rican people and their allies turned out for the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade.
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New report on efforts to beat plastic pollution
June 5, 2018A new report from UN Environment finds a surging momentum in global efforts to address plastic pollution and offers an approach to rethink how the world produces, uses, and manages single-use plastics.
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Puerto Rico death toll after hurricanes at least 4,645, not 64
May 30, 2018“Nurses on the ground saw that people were dying. Our volunteer RNs came back to the U.S. and said again and again, ‘The people of Puerto Rico are dying. Do something!’ "
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What’s in store for Hawaii landscape after eruptions?
May 29, 2018The landscape of congealed lava, after an eruption, is desolate and surreal, but in its way, also strangely beautiful.
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