Environment
Amazon workers tell company to ditch oil industry, fight climate change
April 15, 2019Amazon is getting cozy with the oil industry—and some employees aren’t happy about it.
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Building Trades take up challenge of Green New Deal
April 12, 2019Work is being done to bridge the gap between construction workers and environmentalists.
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Climate change is a class issue
April 11, 2019“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” This is the terrifying introduction to David Wallace-Wells’s timely new book The Uninhabitable Earth. One of Wallace-Wells’s observations is that more than half of carbon emissions from burning...
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For some river towns, flood protection is simply too costly
April 8, 2019Most communities on America’s rivers have some sort of flood protection — usually a concrete wall or an earthen levee. But a few places such as Clarksville do not.
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Where villages once stood, Mozambique now has an inland ocean
March 21, 2019The death, damage and flooding continues in southern Africa, making it one of the most destructive natural disasters in the region’s recent history.
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