Environment
Hurricane Ernesto arrived much too early – an ominous sign
August 21, 2024A third Atlantic hurricane usually doesn't form until three weeks from now. Yet here's Ernesto, bearing down on Bermuda.
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How greener schoolyards benefit kids — and the whole community
August 19, 2024When Lois Brink’s kids were in elementary school, she remembers being struck by how uninviting their schoolyard was. She described it as “scorched earth” — little more than a dirt field coated in “I don’t know...
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Climate disaster survivors demand criminal investigation into fossil fuel industry
August 16, 2024More than 10,000 survivors and loved ones of survivors of “climate-driven disasters” have signed an open letter to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Audubon Society good to birds but awful to its own staff
August 15, 2024Workers say Audubon is cheep - oops cheap – with its workers and it is in trouble now with the labor board.
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Amazon rainforest’s role as carbon sink now in danger, new study warns
August 14, 2024The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost two years of global carbon emissions, but its role as a carbon sink is under threat, according to a new study.
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