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    Trump Admin Failed to Protect 241 Species From Extinction

    Trump Admin Failed to Protect 241 Species From Extinction

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior have failed to protect 241 plant and animal species under the Endangered Species Act, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week by the Center for Biological Diversity, as Bloomberg Environment reported. Four years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services created a […]

    NYC Sea Wall Halted After Trump Says it’s ‘Costly, Foolish’

    NYC Sea Wall Halted After Trump Says it’s ‘Costly, Foolish’

    President Trump has long touted the efficacy of walls, funneling billions of Defense Department dollars to build a wall on the southern border. However, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) released a study that included plans for a sea wall to protect New Yorkers from sea-level rise and catastrophic storms like Hurricane Sandy, […]

    U.S. Reluctantly Agrees to Add Climate Change to G20 Communiqué

    U.S. Reluctantly Agrees to Add Climate Change to G20 Communiqué

    Finance ministers from the 20 largest economies agreed to add a scant mention of the climate crisis in its final communiqué in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday, but they stopped short of calling it a major economic risk, as Reuters reported. It was the first time the G20 has mentioned the climate crisis in its […]

    Coronavirus Has Infected More Than 60,000 Worldwide, New Figures From Chi​na Reveal

    Coronavirus Has Infected More Than 60,000 Worldwide, New Figures From Chi​na Reveal

    By Jessica Corbett As the world’s leading health experts wrapped up a two-day forum about the coronavirus at the World Health Organization’s Geneva headquarters Wednesday, new figures out of China over the past 24 hours revealed that the respiratory illness has now infected more than 60,000 people globally. During a Thursday press conference about COVID-19, […]

    Trump’s Border Wall Construction Is Blasting Native American Burial Sites

    Trump’s Border Wall Construction Is Blasting Native American Burial Sites

    Native American graves are being blasted to clear the way for President Donald Trump‘s border wall. Construction crews began “controlled blasting” of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona last week, CBS News reported Friday. And Congressman Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, who represents the area, says they did so without consulting the Tohono O’odham […]