Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Author: Molly Bergen
11/15/2021
EPA finalizes its first national recycling strategy
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized America’s first “national recycling strategy,” which aims to support the agency’s goal of achieving a 50 percent recycling rate by the end of the decade.
11/16/2021
Pfizer Will Allow Its Covid Pill to Be Made and Sold Cheaply in Poor Countries
Pfizer announced a deal on Tuesday to allow its promising Covid-19 treatment to be made and sold inexpensively in 95 poorer nations that are home to more than half of the world’s population.
11/15/2021
Expanded legal immigration is the ultimate supply side reform
Right now, a lot of people have a lot of money and want to buy a lot of stuff, which is good. But this is outstripping the economy’s productive potential, which is not good.
11/15/2021
Biden to Bar New Drilling Around a Major Native American Cultural Site
President Biden announced on Monday that his administration was moving to block new federal oil and gas leasing within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, one of the nation’s oldest and most culturally significant Native American sites.
10/22/2021
Why Tweets and Texts Are Good For Your Writing
Here’s a question that made me laugh: “Is Texting Killing the English Language?” That was the headline from a 2013 TIME story, which examined the fears that texting (and all its casual shorthand) is doing irreparable damage to us all.
11/15/2021
Israeli climate-tech firms team up with former foes to face threat of rapid warming
Dozens of Israeli climate-tech companies are teaming up with once-hostile neighbors in the Arab world, working together to stem the threat that climate change will render much of their region uninhabitable.
11/12/2021
Africa’s first “chief heat officer” says Freetown could be a data-driven climate model
The standard chorus in climate change clarion calls is that the world needs to limit earth’s warming below 1.5° Celsius. But one of the ways to get people to care about this big, if abstract goal is to focus attention on relatable climate-related hazards, like extreme heat.
11/11/2021
Study: Cancer deaths in U.S. fall overall by 27% over last 50 years
Fewer people are dying from cancer in the United States, thanks to improved diagnosis and treatment and better understanding of prevention, an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Oncology found.
10/04/2021
Aviation: Germany opens world’s first plant for clean jet fuel
Sustainable fuels are seen as key to making carbon-neutral flying possible. But there are some major hurdles preventing these cleaner alternatives from getting off the ground.
11/07/2021
How to Overcome Tribalism, the Shouty Minority and Facebook Toxicity
Have modern politics become irredeemably tribal? In September, Thomas Friedman decried the “virus of tribalism” infecting the United States and other democracies.
11/10/2021
The Tentacled Butterfly Ray Comes Back from the Dead
Presumed extinct, scientists were shocked to find the species holding out in the water off Iran.
11/11/2021