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The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely.
New York follows California to become the second state to set a firm deadline for phasing out fossil fuel powered vehicles.
Read more...A personal take on the collapse of the twin towers.
Read more...In two August reports documenting the presence of PFAS and plastics contaminants in compost, the EPA tags food waste as the source.
Read more...Tropical storm Ida reminds us how little U.S. politicians have done to address climate change since Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005.
Read more...Political and scientific leaders meet in Marseille to debate the biodiversity crisis; meanwhile closer to home, a NYC volunteer group moves to help protect nesting piping plovers.
Read more...Russia and the UK take limited steps to slow the plastics juggernaut.
Read more...Ida’s epic flooding is likely to become part of an extreme weather new normal.
Read more...Who’d have thunk it? Those crazy doctors in operating rooms are on to something. Masks work.
Read more...Tens of thousands dead and the Sacklers get to ride away with their Purdue Pharma loot.
Read more...Why most hospitals aren’t imposing vaccine mandates.
Read more...Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.
Read more...Gulf Coast communities face added pollution as Hurricane Ida nears amid the build-out of gas export and plastic-manufacturing plants.
Read more...The latest IPCC report shows we are climate-cooking our goose more quickly than even most pessimists had thought.
Read more...Walking through yet more troubling information about the state of the Amazon.
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