Communities are in need of recreational spaces where citizens can relax and take a break from their everday stressors. (Photo: Pexels) A state of emergency (SOE) is not a crime-fighting plan. It is only a finger in the dam of the social pressure of citizens tired of juvenile politics, badContinue Reading
David Hairston, 61, has lived near the Belews Creek Steam Station, a coal-fired power plant, since childhood. He feels the plant has done a lot of damage to his community over the years, but his community has continued to find resilience and strength, often with David helping lead the fight.Continue Reading
Major League Baseball made a giant break from tradition last week with the announcement of its 2023 regular-season schedule. No longer will team travel be bound by the antiquated notions of the American and National League circuits. All 30 teams will play each other, giving fans in each city aContinue Reading
Nothing can top the resilience of Africa’s people; in the face of adversity, Africa responds with boundless creativity designed to benefit an entire region, or better, the entire continent. This is true of many situations — but for right now, we’re going to look at how it rings true forContinue Reading
In the Netherlands, farmers are blocking highways and dumping manure in front of politicians’ homes. In Canada, the convoys are blocking traffic again and doing slow rolls while waving Dutch flags. In the U.S., former President Donald Trump said in a speech: “In our movement, we stand against the climateContinue Reading
It took a decade of court battles and street protests, but Balkan activists fighting to protect some of Europe’s last wild rivers have scored an important conservation victory in Bosnia. A new electricity law, which passed Thursday, bans the further construction of small hydroelectric power plants in the largerContinue Reading
In a continuous exercise of transparency and reporting on progress, Jerónimo Martins has published, for the second year, a report on its performance regarding its commitments to a forest positive future, available here. In 2021, the Group was evaluated for the third consecutive year under CDP’s Forests questionnaire as theContinue Reading
SHENZHEN, China, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent is focusing not only on internal efforts to curb emissions, but also using digital technologies and capabilities to help various industries decarbonize, contributing to a global push in fighting climate change, said Xu Hao, Vice President of Sustainable Social Value at Tencent (0700.HK),Continue Reading
Estrela Matilde, a conservation biologist and executive director of the NGO Fundação Príncipe, has won a Whitley Award, for her work to save sea turtles in the tiny African nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Fundação Príncipe has been working since 2015 to conserve the island or Príncipe’s biodiversity byContinue Reading
COLUMBIA — The city and local environmental groups are more than a year into a legal fight to challenge the city’s own zoning board over allowing an auto salvage operation that opponents say clashes with efforts to clean up and beautify a gateway with a history of industrial pollution. The thoroughfare ofContinue Reading
