Mother Earth is Suffering | Opinion

Native News Online— Opinion. This week is celebrated as Earth Week. On Monday, April 22, Americans will commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first Earth Day back in 1970. The day was established as a community-based effort to bring awareness to environmental issues.

The Asheville Citizen Times—Weintraub: What would Mother Earth say?. I was awakened the other night by the howl of coyotes singing to the stars. The next morning, several white-tailed deer welcomed me at my...

Tri-City Herald—OPINION| Earth Day: Protecting and advocating for our Goldilocks planet. In this Earth Day column, guest writer Richard Badalamente discusses the need for protecting and advocating for our planet.

Los Angeles Times—Opinion: My mother set herself on fire. Why do people choose to self-immolate?. Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Mich., kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were just blocks from the University of Michigan campus, where my mother had been a student. She had just turned 20. Police tracked the smell of burning hair to find the women sitting on the floor, facing each other, screaming. “They weren’t doing anything to put the fire out,” Police Chief Walter Krasny...