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Mine Workers’ Leader Wants To Save Last Coal Jobs As Biden Tackles Climate – Ohio Valley ReSource
United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said he’s been hearing the term “just transition” tossed around for more…
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Google’s Head of Sustainability Wants You to See the Earth in a New Way
Most of us will never travel to space or experience “the overview effect,” a feeling astronauts have reportd after seeing…
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11 Reusable Alternatives to Makeup Wipes You’ll Love
Makeup wipes are effective and can feel essential for busy, active people. But unlike reusable makeup remover pads, they’re usually…
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Why Self-Care Isn’t Selfish: Advice for Women
What comes to mind when you think of self-care? Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our…
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Audubon CEO resigns after complaints of toxic workplace
Walker thanked Yarnold in in an all-staff email obtained by POLITICO for his “energy and passion leading Audubon to a…
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Recipe: Crepes With Moroccan Vegetable Curry
This curry dish is not only full of flavor, but it is also uber-nutritious. It’s low in fat and sodium,…
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Cities Confront Climate Challenge: How to Move from Gas to Electricity?
In 1836, Philadelphians mostly used whale oil and candles to light their homes and businesses. That year, the newly formed…
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Global CO2 Emissions Set to Surge in 2021 in Post-Covid Economic Rebound
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to increase by 1.5 billion tons this year, the second-largest increase in history, according…
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LISTEN: Abrania Marrero on dietary colonialism in Puerto Rico
Abrania Marrero joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Health podcast to discuss the increasing push for food security and…
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Anthem raises outlook as it posts $1.7B in Q1 profit
Anthem brought in $1.7 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2021, beating Wall Street analysts’ projections. Profits were…
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What Is the Average Height for Women?
Q: What is the average height for an adult woman and why does it matter? How tall you are is…
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Dirty Dollars
Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, unpaid taxes, shuttered buildings and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs…
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Strides Against HIV/AIDS Falter, Especially in the South, as Nation Battles Covid
Facing a yearlong siege from the coronavirus, the defenses in another, older war are faltering. For the last two decades,…
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Why Is Fashion Talking About Regenerative Farming?
Fashion, like politics, loves a buzzword — especially when it comes to the environment. Sustainability! Circularity! They just tripped off…
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Doctors call for tougher health and climate commitment
Health professionals around the world wrote an open letter asking G20 leaders to tackle climate change and the health crises…
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Ahead of the Climate Summit, Environmental Groups Urge Biden to Champion Methane Reductions as a Quick Warming Fix – Inside Climate News
The Environmental Defense Fund has a clear message for the Biden Administration on the eve of an international climate summit…
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WHITE HOUSE: A Biden climate order fails, leaving agencies grasping
On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order reinstating a flood protection policy that former President…
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Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests
Flowering plants can transfer radiocesium from soils to honey bees, who can then concentrate the contaminant in honey. Arx0nt/iStock By…
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Green construction: Creating emissions-free building sites | DW | 20.04.2021
The dust, smell, noise and heat from Hong Kong’s many construction sites are often “unbearable” for many of the city’s…
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Will Sweden lead the way in hydrogen-powered steelmaking? | DW | 20.04.2021
Lulea in northern Sweden is only about 100 kilometers (62 miles) away from the Arctic Circle. It has some 80,000…
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What To Do with Fish When the River Runs Dry | Hakai Magazine
Article body copy This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the…
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How Federal Prohibition Is Turning Cannabis into a Climate Villain
Traveling north from San Francisco, the rolling vineyards of wine country soon give way to stands of redwoods and the…
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Supplement treats schizophrenia in mice, restores healthy ‘dance’ and structure of neurons: Repurposed drug works by building cells’ skeleton and transportation network
A simple dietary supplement reduces behavioral symptoms in mice with a genetic mutation that causes schizophrenia. After additional experiments, including…
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Hungry, Hungry Microbes in Tree Bark Gobble Up Methane
“When I saw this paper, I just said, ‘Holy shit, this is really interesting,’” says Jeffrey White, a professor emeritus…
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Epidural use at birth not linked to autism risk, study finds
Having an epidural during childbirth is not associated with a greater risk of autism in the child, according to a…
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The Day the San Francisco Sky Turned Orange
Like many other San Francisco residents on the morning of September 9, 2020, I double-checked the time when I woke…
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Grand Rapids discontinues some synthetic pesticide use along Grand River to reduce chemical runoff
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Grand Rapids plans this spring to stop using synthetic pesticides and fertilizers at two of its…
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‘Information theory’ recruited to help scientists find cancer genes
Using a widely known field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured,…
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Opponents say plan to use treated sewage for irrigation stinks
Last Tuesday night, before the Klamath County Planning Commission reviewed evidence and public comments related to the South Suburban Sanitary…
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Food allergies, changes to infant gut bacteria linked to method of childbirth, ethnicity
Researchers have found a causal link between caesarean section birth, low intestinal microbiota and peanut sensitivity in infants, and they…
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The immune link between a leaky blood-brain barrier and schizophrenia
Like a stern bodyguard for the central nervous sytem, the blood-brain barrier keeps out anything that could lead to disease…
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Nevada deferral of Anaconda Superfund site speeds cleanup progress
Cleanup at the polluted Anaconda Copper Mine outside Yerington is ramping up two years after it started, and state officials…
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Drug development platform could provide flexible, rapid and targeted antimicrobials
When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs…
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Designing healthy diets with computer analysis
A new mathematical model for the interaction of bacteria in the gut could help design new probiotics and specially tailored…
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‘Water warriors’: the US women banding together to fight for water justice
Deanna Miller Berry first learned of the scores of complaints about Denmark, South Carolina’s water supply, during her 2017 mayoral…
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Overgrowth of gut yeast in newborns may increase asthma risk
An overgrowth of yeast in the gut within the first few months of life may cause changes to the immune…
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The Spanish ski resort turning a blind eye to climate change
The Cerler ski resort in Spain’s Aragonese Pyrenees is pursuing a controversial plan to extend its ski runs by 23…
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Study reveals roadmap of muscle decline with age: A comprehensive roadmap of muscle decline with age in mice reveals possible new targets for treatments, including the molecule Klotho
Scientists have produced a comprehensive roadmap of muscle aging in mice that could be used to find treatments that prevent…
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Climate change threatening Illinois’ wildlife, forests, grasslands
CHICAGO (WLS) — The impacts of climate change on wildlife throughout Illinois is already showing up. Warmer weather, especially in…
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Review summarizes known links between endocrine disruptors and breast cancer risk
Exposure to certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals could elevate the risk of breast cancer, according to a new comprehensive systematic review of…
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POLITICS: House GOP launches climate messaging ahead of summit
House Republicans yesterday launched a climate messaging campaign ahead of President Biden’s Earth Day summit this week, laying out their…
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Global investment in telehealth, artificial intelligence hits a new high in Q1 2021
Telehealth investment hit an all-time high of $4.2 billion in just 139 deals in the first quarter, almost doubling the…
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Aetna bringing CVS-centric plan to new markets with eye on further expansion
Aetna first unveiled its Connected Plan last year, and now it’s bringing the design to new markets with its sights…
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Good solutions-focused news for Earth Day
Great news for Earth Day: We had three major successes this spring. Each shows how one action sparks another –…
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Hospital executives report high nursing vacancies, greater reliance on costly travel nurses
Hospitals are increasingly finding their hands tied on nurse staffing, reporting numerous position vacancies, heavy use of high-cost travel nurses…
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Role of physical, mental health in cognitive impairment
A recent study suggests that preserving physical and mental health helps older adults experiencing cognitive impairment stave off declines in…
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How politics is shaping Biden’s infrastructure proposal
There’s just one problem: Independent analyses suggest that the program — which got its last big boost under the 2009…
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Google cracks down on insurance advertisements posted on search engine
Starting next month, Google will require health insurers to apply for certification for their ads to run on the search…
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