Stuart Brown has spent lots of time looking into the future of Louisiana’s coast. As the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s assistant administrator for planning and research, he has become the lead spokesman for the 2023 coastal master plan update, released on Jan. 6 in draft form. Brown hasContinue Reading
Researchers now have a much better understanding of how climate change can impact and cause seawater temperatures on one side of the Indian Ocean to be so much warmer or cooler than the temperatures on the other, a phenomenon that can lead to sometimes deadly weather-related events like megadroughts inContinue Reading
Dar es Salaam. The Director General of Tanzania Electricity Supply Corporation (Tanesco), Maharage Chande, has said that in the implementation of the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Hydropower Dam project (JNHPP), the government considered and continues to follow up on the conditions of international environmental protection. He made the statement Wednesday, DecemberContinue Reading
“Listen, listen, and listen.” This instruction appears as a big bold subheading near the end of the first part of ‘Advocating for the Environment.’ There it applies to the process of pulling together a vision of what one wants to accomplish. Really, though, the instruction summarizes the entire book: ToContinue Reading
For over a century, the NAACP, one of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations, has worked to combat racial discrimination and segregation. Through litigation, get-out-the-vote efforts and policy work, the organization has fought for fair housing, voting rights, education and criminal justice reform, among other initiatives. In more recent years,Continue Reading
Superzero is helping to eliminate plastic waste through its bar beauty products. Superzero Plastics are bad for human health and the environment. This isn’t news to most of us. However, it’s easy to gloss over the details of why plastics are so devastating because they are pervasive in our dailyContinue Reading
FORT SMITH — The Air Force is exploring the possible environmental impacts of placing a Foreign Military Sales Pilot Training Center at Ebbing Air National Guard Base. The first of three Environmental Impact Statement public meetings was held Wednesday . Ebbing at Fort Smith Regional Airport was selected last yearContinue Reading
Staff members dispose medical waste outside a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) lab for nucleic acid testing in Xianyou County, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Sept. 14, 2021. Three PCR labs have been built in the county to boost nucleic acid detection capacity.Photo:Xinhua China is fully able to process the medical wasteContinue Reading
Nathan H. Walcker, MBA, has been CEof Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) since August 2020, after joining the practice as chief financial officer in 2019. FCS was an early adopter of value-based care initiatives, and its physician, pharmacy, and business leaders have been active participants in the OncologyContinue Reading
British billionaire Alan Howard turned heads when he began investing heavily in crypto startups in late 2020. But although it quickly became clear that the 58-year-old hedge fund heavyweight was dedicating a significant amount of time to the sector, few could have guessed quite how deep down the crypto rabbitContinue Reading
