by Admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation
In 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Todd Kim to be a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, but his appointment never happened, a casualty of the Republican Senate’s no-progress stance on anything coming from Obama’s White House. Now, he’s been...
by Admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Climate Change, Green Energy, Sustainability
During his 2020 campaign, while the shape of the world changed in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, President Joe Biden made promises to spend $2 trillion over his first four-year term on efforts to slow the United States’ contribution to global warming, and to...
by Admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Environmental hazards
In the first months of 2020, it felt like there was a new disaster every week. And 2021 appears to be playing the same tune. In the last week of February, patches of tar began washing up on beaches along more than 100 miles of Israel’s coastline. Immediately, the sale...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Conservation, Sustainability
Yishan Wong has taken part in some of the largest disruptions the internet brought to daily living. In the early 2000s, he was a senior engineering manager at PayPal while the company made itself into the bank of the internet. In 2005, he joined a fast-growing new...
by Admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
On the morning of Sunday, February 7, a wall of water and mud slammed its way down the valley of India’s Dhauliganga River. Nothing stopped it—not houses, ridges, or dams. As of February 12, 2021, more than 200 people were still listed as missing, 38 had been...
