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This climate policy expert is taking over Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion Earth Fund

It’s a momentous week for action on climate change. On Thursday, the White House is convening 40 world leaders for an Earth Day summit where the United States is expected…

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One of the coldest places on Earth is experiencing a record-breaking heat wave

One of the coldest regions on Earth has been experiencing a record-breaking heat wave in recent weeks amid growing fears about devastating wildfires and melting permafrost. Khatanga, a town in…

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Coronavirus New Hampshire

Our strange life on Earth

Published: 5/25/2020 12:01:36 AM A book from the sixties has resurfaced in my mind during COVID-19. It won awards, but it wasn’t for everyone: Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.…

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Battlefield Earth Writer Says That Now Movie Cats Is The Worst Film Of All Time

Battlefield Earth starring John Travolta and Forest Whitaker has been labeled as one of the worst movies of all time. The movie, based on a book from L. Ron Hubbard,…

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Coronavirus Virgin Islands and the Caribbean

Earth Today | Trelawny NGO moves to complete Cockpit Country trail | News

THE SOUTHERN Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA) is moving to complete its nature trail project inside Jamaica’s ecological gem, the Cockpit Country, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The…

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Coronavirus Virgin Islands and the Caribbean

Earth Today | UWI professor bats for conservation funding as pandemic forces ‘lean times’ | News

UNIVERSITY OF the West Indies (UWI) professor, Dr Mona Webber, has come out in support of continued financial assistance for entities working in conservation, as the world faces down COVID-19,…

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Coronavirus Minnesota

Man sentenced to 10 years for planning to sell meth on White Earth reservation

A federal judge sentenced a Minnesota man to 10 years in prison Monday for buying more than one pound of methamphetamine in the Twin Cities and attempting to sell it…

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Coronavirus Virgin Islands and the Caribbean

Earth Today | ‘Don’t hold your breath’ – Developing countries urged to make their own way on climate-change readiness | News

TO EXPECT financing from the developed world to boost preparedness for climate-change impacts would be foolhardy of vulnerable countries, including small island developing states of the Caribbean, given the reality…

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Coronavirus California

Plumas residents clean up to celebrate Earth Day 2020

By Mari Erin Roth Special to Feather Publishing Quincy resident Sky Plocki helps pick up trash on Cemetery Hill with his red wheelbarrow and gloves. Photo submitted Earth Day 2020…

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Coronavirus Arkansas

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth

This piece is part of the Times’ ongoing series on women in Arkansas politics called “That’s What Girls Do.” Growing up, I always thought advocacy and service work consisted of a group of…

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