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US Wholesale Prices Fell 0.2% in June as Food Costs Plunged
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale prices fell 0.2% in June as food costs dropped sharply, offsetting ...
UN: World Could Hit 1.5-Degree Warming Threshold by 2024
GENEVA (AP) — The world could see annual global temperatures pass a key threshold for the ...
Opponents: Pipeline’s Defeat ‘A Testament to Perseverance’
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richard Averitt and his wife have spent six years and more than ...
Aggressive Seaweed Smothers One of World’s Most Remote Reefs
HONOLULU (AP) — Researchers say a recently discovered species of seaweed is killing large patches of ...
Indians Keep Their Distance in Mass Tree Planting Campaign
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — More than 2 million people gathered Sunday at river banks, farmlands and ...
Fish More Vulnerable to Warming Water Than First Thought
BOSTON (AP) — Gyms, casinos, museums, movie theaters and guided tours are some of the businesses ...
Dem Climate Plan Would End Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a plan to address climate change that would ...
Nonprofit Report – Homelessness during Covid-19
Host Mark Oppenheim interviews guests: So Others Might Eat President and CEO Ralph Boyd; HOPE Atlanta ...
NONPROFIT REPORT: Climate and Ocean Conservation in the San Francisco Bay Area
Host Mark Oppenheim interview guest: Bay Ecotarium President and CEO George Jacob ...
Despite Green Pledges, Amazon’s Carbon Footprint Grew 15%
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Tuesday that its carbon footprint rose 15% last year, even ...
WHO Chief Warns World Leaders Not to ‘Politicize’ Pandemic
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — World leaders must not politicize the coronavirus pandemic but unite ...
Deaths Prompt Alaska Officials to Remove ‘Into the Wild’ Bus
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness where a young man documented ...
Temperature Spike: Earth Ties Record High Heat May Reading
Earth's temperature spiked to tie a record high for May, U.S. meteorologists reported Friday ...
Trump Allows Commercial Fishing in Marine Conservation Area
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled back protections Friday at a marine conservation area ...
Indian Metropolis of Mumbai Braces for Rare Cyclone
NEW DELHI (AP) — A cyclone in the Arabian Sea was barreling toward India's business capital ...
National Parks Visitors Should Plan For ‘New Normal’
BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — After closing amid the coronavirus pandemic, the National Park ...
INSIGHT: WDSE Promo on Duluth Nonprofits
In this collaboration with WDSE in Duluth, host Mark Oppenheim interviews nonprofit leaders from Northeastern Minnesota ...
INSIGHT: KLCS Promo on Los Angeles Nonprofits
In this collaboration with KLCS in Los Angeles, host Mark Oppenheim interviews nonprofit leaders from Los ...
AP PHOTOS: Virus-era Glimpses of a World Without Humans
Being human, the world of human beings is the one we tend to notice most. The ...
Amid Pandemic, Charities and Nonprofits Face Huge Challenges
NEW YORK (AP) — While celebrities and billionaires have announced huge gifts to combat the COVID-19 ...
10 Pioneer-era Apple Types Thought Extinct Found in US West
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A team of retirees that scours the remote ravines and windswept plains ...
Nonprofit Spotlight: The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Providing a Thriving Green Space in the Heart of Boston
Read our Nonprofit Spotlight with the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Executive Director Jesse Brackenbury on how ...
Coronavirus Forces New Approaches to Fighting Wildfires
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — They are two disasters that require opposite responses: To save lives and ...
Eat More American-Caught Seafood, Environmental Groups Urge
Environmental groups and experts are asking more Americans to eat American-caught seafood amid quarantining ...
US Climate Activists to Livestream Earth Day Due to Virus
CHICAGO (AP) — As the coronavirus causes shut-downs across the U.S., a coalition of youth-led organizations ...
Experts List Ideas to Reduce Waste and Impact on the Environment
Experts have put together a list of ways that people can change their consumption patterns in ...
Scientists Expect Spring Floods to be Milder Than Last Year
WASHINGTON (AP) — Too often disasters come in threes. But the year of global pandemic and ...
‘Wonderchicken’ Fossil Reveals Ancestor of Today’s Birds
New York (AP) — A tiny fossil skull nicknamed "Wonderchicken" is giving scientists a rare glimpse ...
Ending Food Waste Helps to Slow Environmental Spiral
Food waste varies from country to country, but studies have shown time and again that food ...
Millions Holed Up at Home as Virus Profoundly Shifts US Life
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Millions of Americans began the work week holed up at home against the ...
Changes in the Climate Lead to Diluted Nutrients in Grasses
Changes in the climate are diluting nutrients in grasses that maintain and feed ecosystems, according to ...
Scientists Believe Amazon and Other Large Ecosystem are Near their Tipping Point
Within the next half decade, some of the world’s largest ecosystems could go spiral and disappear ...
Turtles Are Eating Plastic Because it Smells Like Food
New research found that ocean turtles are eating plastics that smell like food and dying from ...
Tornado Relief Agencies Ask Volunteers to Take a Day Off
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The rare Tiehm's buckwheat stands less than a foot tall (30 centimeters) ...
Who’s Greener? Mine Fight Pits Electric Cars Against Flower
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The rare Tiehm's buckwheat stands less than a foot tall (30 centimeters) ...
Tracking System Developed to Develop Sustainable Fish Farms
The Tidal project is working to track and analyze the movement of fish underwater in order ...
Half of World’s Sandy Beaches at Risk From Climate Change
BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say that half of the world's sandy beaches could disappear by the ...
US Identifies Habitat Critical for Survival of Rare Songbird
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife managers proposed Thursday to set aside a vast area across ...
World’s First in Vitro Cheetah Cubs Born at Ohio Zoo
POWELL, Ohio (AP) — Two cheetah cubs have been born through in vitro fertilization and embryo ...
Earthquake Risk Prompts Order to Drain California Dam
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Worried that an earthquake could collapse a big dam south of ...
