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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this too will be a short Water Cooler, since I have a second post to write. –lambert Bird Song of the Day The Powerful Woodpecker (mostly calls, but occasionally exerting its power). * * * water_cooler.otln #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The […]

The issues and the cast of characters at Warrior Met Coal.

A large-scale preschool program – even one with less per-child expenditures than model preschools – can deliver long-run benefits to students.

As the Colorado River Basin enters yet another year of drought, global companies are worsening the water crisis.

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Cyclone Yaas smacked India and Bangladesh in late May. Its most severe impact was on the Sundarbans, the vast delta the two countries share.

“The egregious acts by the outgoing Trump Justice Department, and the apparent doubling down on them during the Biden administration, should alarm all Americans, regardless of political persuasion.”

After India finally gets somewhat of a grip on its deadly second wave, one of its health regulators just took away one of its main lines of defense. 

Health industry leaders and many patient advocates are pushing Congress and the Biden administration to preserve the pandemic-fueled expansion of telehealth.

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The UN last week issued a report assessing the dire state the world’s soil. The calls to action are inadequate to the scale of the problem.

California lawmakers and NGOs call on the Biden administration to press for U.S. ratification of the 1989 Basel Convention and subsequent amendments.