"The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved on Friday the first guidelines for trading voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts in the country, a move expected to help bolster the nascent market."
"Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere"
"As a Rust belt town of 65,000 people in eastern Indiana, Muncie may not be the most exciting place in the world. It doesn’t have beaches, year-round warm weather or much in the way of cosmopolitanism.
But for Laura Rivas, a cybersecurity engineer formerly of North Miami Beach, Florida, Muncie is perfect.
Before she moved there in 2022, life in Florida had become unbearable.
"Before President Joe Biden exited the race, environmental groups were badly lagging the rate of their 2020 campaign spending. That’s changing."
"Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard but not sufficiently acted upon."
In his fascinating volume about John James Audubon, world-renowned naturalist-writer-illustrator Kenn Kaufman pays homage to the artist but meticulously dissects the man, writes BookShelf Editor Tom Henry. A review of “The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness” depicts how Audubon, driven by the rivalries of his time, marred his own legacy with factual errors and outright fraud.
"Move over Moby Dick. Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North Pacific's Salish Sea after decades of absence, is telling a new story about the global threat to whale populations."
"Opponents of offshore wind around the U.S. are pelting projects with lawsuits seeking to cancel them or tie them up for years in costly litigation."
"Under a new state program, property insurers must provide discounts for home wildfire mitigation. But some discounts are miniscule."
"The bare hot asphalt schoolyard of the American past is getting a redo." "Schools across the country are adding trees, tent-like structures and water to their playgrounds as temperatures soar."
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