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One recent hot summer day, David Cloud visited several Louisiana prisons. Many of the people he saw incarcerated there had stripped down to their underwear and lay motionless on the concrete floors of their cells…
Bill Gates on Friday said he was “definitely glass half-full” when it comes to preventing the worst of what the climate crisis has in store. U.S. News
The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness. NYT > Health
Big Oil, on the back of record profits last year, has been accused of dialing back critically important climate pledges in recent months. International: Top News And Analysis
There’s a potential for Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the U.S. later this year for the APEC summit, and possibly meet with Joe Biden during that time. International: Top News And Analysis
El Nino is widely recognized as the warming of the sea surface temperature, which occurs every few years. U.S. News
The climate portion of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation represents the largest-ever federal investment in clean energy. U.S. News
The U.N. meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, was seen as humanity’s last and best chance to keep the all-important goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius alive. International: Top News And Analysis
“The buyers just keep marching into the jaws of destruction,” Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told CNBC on Friday. U.S. News
Biden will sign more than a dozen executive orders on Wednesday aimed at combating Covid and rolling back some of Trump’s directives. International: Top News And Analysis