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My Christmassy hometown is looking less and less like a winter wonderland.
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.
Mississippi sued Memphis over its use of a deep aquifer. A possibly paradigm-shifting Supreme Court decision looms.
Social distancing measures have spawned a grand experiment in cities all over the United States, one that was once only imaginable in urbanists’ wildest dreams.
No more purely transactional relationships in 2020!
Companies are voluntarily halting disconnects over unpaid bills, but advocates warn there’s no legal obligation to do so amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
“They’re not hearing people speak to them on the issue in a manner that resonates.”
A new study shows the world is on track for the biggest emissions drop since World War II.