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Jamaica beat Britain to women’s relay gold

Image by The Tribune India. Article via The Tribune India. Doha: Jamaica stormed to World Championships gold in the women's 4x100m relay on Saturday, beating Britain in a battle that featured 100 and 200m winners Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Dina Asher-Smith. Since 2005 the United States and...

New UN Coalition To Bolster Global Infrastructure In The Face Of Climate Change

Image by Associated Press. Article by Christian Kreznar, via Forbes. As part of the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the creation of a coalition to bolster the world’s infrastructure. In the face of increasingly severe weather patterns resulting...

Climate change: How you can make a difference

Image via Pixababy. Article by Daniel Van Boom via CNET. A heatwave has turned Western Europe into a furnace. The Amazon is on fire. Glaciers in Iceland are melting. Earth just sweltered through its hottest five-year period on record. The seemingly never-ending newsreel of climate catastrophes can...

Jane Fonda Arrested for Protesting Climate Change in Washington

Image by Caroline McCredie via Getty Images. Article by Mark Kennedy/AP, via TIME.COM. (NEW YORK) — Jane Fonda was arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Friday while peacefully protesting climate change. The actress and activist was handcuffed on the east side steps and escorted into a police...

It’s time to plant for the future with hemp

Image via The Circle. Article by Winona LaDuke and catwhipple, via The Circle. While armchair and facebook critics are blasting away at those of us transforming the world, blasting Alexandria Ocasio Ortiz, Ilhan Omar, and others for having a dream of an ecologically and socially beautiful world,...

The Seas Are Rising—And So Are They

Photo by Julian Meehan via Flickr (C.C. by 2.0) Article by Rebecca Bengal, VOGUE Outside the United Nations building in New York City, a murmur echoed through the security line posted alongside First Avenue as Al Gore was escorted into a cordoned-off area. It was September 23, the...

Marijuana Reform Should Focus On Inequality

Image by Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty. Article by Sarah Milov, via The Atlantic. Especially because Americans of color have borne the brunt of the drug war, they deserve to share in the marijuana boom now taking hold across the country. And if America’s long...

These robots are learning to grow weed. Yes, they’re ‘pot bots.’

Image courtesy of FarmBot. Article by Amanda Hoover, via NJ Advance Media for NJ.COM. There’s a new farmer in the cannabis industry — and it’s faster, smarter and sleeker, thanks to artificial intelligence. From small-scale home systems that take the guesswork out of growing for beginners to commercial...

Youth climate activist: Why tout development if there’s no future?

Photo by Manish Swarup (AP Photo) Article by Laura M. Holson, via Associated Press An Indian girl who was among the 16 young activists filing a complaint at the United Nations accusing countries of inaction on climate change has taken that step before. Ridhima Pandey, now 11, filed...