Why you should stop using so much hot water
2024-05-12
Heating water gobbles energy, leading to higher utility bills and more planet-warming emissions., Read MoreContinue Reading
A Puerto Rico Community Pushes for Rooftop Solar as Fossil-Fuel Plants Face Retirement
2024-05-11
Land for large solar arrays is limited on the island. Rooftop panels can provide electricity during blackouts and bring the island closer to its clean energy goals. By Esther Frances GUAYAMA, PUERTO RICO — The coastal communities of Guayama and Salinas in southern Puerto Rico feature acres of vibrant greenContinue Reading
Forget the cards and flowers: Here’s what American moms could really use for Mother’s Day
2024-05-11
Support us with policies such as paid parental leave and federally funded child care, and restore our reproductive rights.Continue Reading
Flash floods have killed more than 300 people in Afghanistan
2024-05-11
Floods from heavy seasonal rains have destroyed over 1,000 houses, the U.N. food agency said. A U.N. official said the floods are a reminder of Afghanistan’s vulnerability to the climate crisis. (Image credit: Mehrab Ibrahimi)Continue Reading
Madagascar: Coordination, convergence and change from the grass roots up
2024-05-11
How can people be best supported during humanitarian crises with limited aid budgets and what can be done to help those same people break out of the cycle of dependency caused by multiple crises and move towards more sustainable development?Continue Reading
Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year. A New UN Report Details the Impacts and Costs
2024-05-11
Some scientists in the region said many of the effects seen today weren’t expected until the second half of the century. By Bob Berwyn Extreme climate shocks, intensified by global warming, killed hundreds of people and devastated livelihoods and ecosystems across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, scientists withContinue Reading
Horse’s rooftop rescue gives flood-hit Brazil ‘something we could root for’
2024-05-11
After Caramelo the horse was stranded on a roof, the dramatic race to save him gripped some in Brazil as the nation grapples with severe flooding., Read MoreContinue Reading
Bishop vanished. His species can still be saved.
2024-05-11
A young right whale survived the harrowing journey north along the east coast that had marred and killed so many members of his family. It wasn’t enough., Read MoreContinue Reading
#CJreform Movement Poorly Positioned to Confront Re-Criminalized Abortion
2024-05-11
During my three decades working on criminal-justice reform, when abortion came up, your correspondent always took the attitude, “That’s someone else’s job.” Not anymore. As of last week, abortion became a criminal-justice issue in Texas, full stop. The US Supreme Court’s abandonment of Roe vs. Wade — combined with aContinue Reading
Can Wastewater Recycling Systems Solve Water Scarcity?
2024-05-11
Circular sanitation systems could be lifelines on a water-stressed planet, but there are big barriers to overcome.Continue Reading
California Will Add a Fixed Charge to Electric Bills and Reduce Rates
2024-05-11
Officials said the decision would lower bills and encourage people to use cars and appliances that did not use fossil fuels, but some experts said it would discourage energy efficiency.Continue Reading
Many Churches Aren’t Accessible—Here’s Why That’s a Problem for Voters
2024-05-10
Churches account for 20 percent of all polling places in the United States, but religious entities are exempt from the ADA., Read MoreContinue Reading
Punks-B-Gone!
2024-05-10
While protests are messy and disruptive, they aren’t nearly as dangerous as the impulse to shut down free expression by sending in riot cops., Read MoreContinue Reading