Sydney is set to follow in the footsteps of London and New York to stake its claim as one of the world’s leading climate action cities with the inaugural Climate Action Week Sydney taking place between May 13-19 2024.
Arbor Day has its roots in the 1870s, when the horticulturist J. Sterling Morton spearheaded a movement to green Nebraska’s largely treeless plains. Since then, citizens, businesses and governments have marked April 26 by planting trees in schoolyards, parks and neighborhoods. In recent years, tree-planting has been touted as no less than a means of empowering people to combat climate change. Gratifying and photographable, planting a tree seems to be a small but tangible act that almost anyone...
Activists demanded Harris stop funding 'genocide' in Israel and declare a national emergency on climate change. Six activists were arrested by police after blocking a street near her home. They criticized President Biden and Harris for allowing record production of fossil fuels
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt probably has become a pretty unpopular guy among teenagers over the last few weeks. His new book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” essentially calls for a revolution in how parents administer smartphones and social media to their teens. Put simply, Haidt writes that kids should have little to no access to either until they turn 16. While some have questioned the science behind Haidt’s...
The plan includes 10 recommended changes or tactics communities can use to become more environmentally friendly.
The Tesla Supercharging station — one of two in Manteca — near Bass Pro Shops at Orchard Valley is high profile.
After more than three and half hours behind closed doors in a closed session, the Meridian Township Board of Trustees returned to open session at 11:15 p.m. and recessed the meeting until 6 p.m. April 17, 2024. (WLNS)
It's the most fundamental of processes—the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, the burning off of fog in the morning sun, and the drying of briny ponds that leaves solid salt behind. Evaporation is all around us, and humans have been observing it and making use of it for as long as we have existed.
A sunshine law for the Sunshine State: Florida's police have no expectation of privacy when conducting official duties, meaning the public can record them without their consent, an appeals court ruled last week. The court threw out five felony wiretapping convictions against Michael Leroy Waite, 63, who had taped conversations with cops from Citrus County Sheriff's Office. — Read the rest
Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández fumed about the decision to send Ronald Araújo off as his side were eliminated from the Champions League after Tuesday's 4-1 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.
High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem proudly recounts the day she decided to start killing animals. In a new book that Krist Noem hopes to sell, the South Dakota governor describes how killing a pet 14-month-old puppy led her to kill another family pet. — Read the rest