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I got up early last week to watch the Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars. A mere 184.46 million miles away, Ingenuity sat on the Martian surface awaiting commands from the control room full of bright young faces at the
Read moreClassical Greeks and Romans once had a wonder plant called silphium, so revered that it appeared on coinage. In 2017, Zaria Gorvett listed some of its uses for the BBC: “Its crunchable stalks were roasted, sautéed or boiled and eaten
Read moreThe heat is on. And we have seen the deep freeze to prove it. Duncanites were among the luckiest in a two-state area during and after the February deep freeze. My unofficial reckoning showed 283 straight hours at freezing or
Read moreWith the departure of the banditti leading the previous administration, four years of orchestrated greed, graft, golf and ill-governance have come to an end. Now, we have President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat, who will try to put our ship
Read moreWatching in horror as President Trump and Greed’s Own Party miscalculated that sacrificing USAnian lives to the COVID-19 pandemic would save the economy – resulting in unnecessary deaths, heartache and ever-extending economic chaos – has overshadowed other news. And now
Read moreThe illogic of continued resource extraction has finally caught on with reasonable people, but it still faces opposition from folks who resist any change on the principle of refusing to think and that worse lot who don’t care about environmental
Read moreThe news was shocking, disturbing to anyone who is still a child at heart. Early this month, CBS announced: “Reindeer near Santa’s hometown need help to survive a warming climate.” NBC, a little later, was less dramatic: “Climate change threatens
Read moreIn July, Carnegie Mellon University released a scientific report saying that more than 30,000 American lives could be saved if we lowered our air pollution levels below current standards. As reported by Science Daily, “Research findings show significant human health
Read moreIn August, NBC ran a story on “a growing wave of Swedes who’ve given up flying because of carbon emissions produced by air travel… “’Flying is an extremely carbon-intensive activity, and every flight avoided is a substantial emissions savings,’ said
Read moreThis one Earth we share with our many cousins is entering parlous times. Last summer The Guardian interviewed Mami Mizutori, The U.N. secretary-general’s special representative on disaster risk reduction, and reported, “Catastrophes such as cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique and the drought afflicting India make headlines
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