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    Numerous Hand Sanitizers Test Positive for Dangerous Carcinogen

    Numerous Hand Sanitizers Test Positive for Dangerous Carcinogen

    As people rushed to buy hand sanitizer during the first months of the pandemic, new brands emerged to fill the gap left by more well-known labels. But in the frenzy, some manufacturers appear to have cut corners. Last year, several hand sanitizer brands were recalled by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for containing toxic […]

    Hawaii Food Rescue Group Feeds Community During Pandemic

    Hawaii Food Rescue Group Feeds Community During Pandemic

    Last year, COVID-19 lockdowns forced many restaurants to close and events to be canceled at the last minute, so a lot of food that was already purchased stood to be wasted. “There were a lot of businesses that were faced with that harsh reality that they just had so much food that could not be […]

    How Has COVID Changed Fridays for Future?

    How Has COVID Changed Fridays for Future?

    By Martin Kuebler When Fridays for Future (FFF) takes to the streets on March 19, activists around the world are going to be doing everything they can to make sure the climate crisis stays in the news. In the Netherlands, 16-year-old Erik Christiansson will join a small physically distanced protest in The Hague with other […]

    People of Faith Worldwide Rise Up  for Climate Justice

    People of Faith Worldwide Rise Up  for Climate Justice

    By Jessica Corbett “We envision a world transformed, in which humanity in all its diversity has developed a shared reverence for life on Earth.” So declares a new joint statement—entitled “Sacred People, Sacred Earth”—supported by religious groups and leaders across the globe who planned more than 400 events in over 40 countries for Thursday in […]

    Endangered Great Apes Receive COVID-19 Vaccine at San Diego Zoo

    Endangered Great Apes Receive COVID-19 Vaccine at San Diego Zoo

    Four orangutans and five bonobos at the world-famous San Diego Zoo have become the first great apes in the world to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The great apes received a COVID-19 vaccine made especially for animals. In January, a troop of eight western lowland gorillas at the associated San Diego Zoo Safari Park contracted […]

    Sunrise Movement Launches Campaign to Fight Climate Crisis With Guaranteed Jobs

    Sunrise Movement Launches Campaign to Fight Climate Crisis With Guaranteed Jobs

    By Kenny Stancil Amid the ongoing climate emergency and the devastating coronavirus pandemic that has resulted in more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. alone as well as an economic meltdown that has left millions of people unemployed, the Sunrise Movement on Thursday launched its “Good Jobs for All” campaign to demand that lawmakers pursue […]

    Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good

    Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good

    By Lynn Freehill-Maye The irony hit Katherine Kehrli, the associate dean of Seattle Culinary Academy, when one of the COVID-19 pandemic’s successive waves of closures flattened restaurants: Many of her culinary students were themselves food insecure. She saw cooks, bakers, and chefs-in-training lose the often-multiple jobs that they needed simply to eat. “The pandemic has […]