The natural gas that lights popular gas stoves for both home and professional cooks contains low concentrations of several pollutants and chemicals linked to cancer, a new study has found. The study, by the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and published this week in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is the latest…
As prices rise, everywhere, for pretty much everything, the prospect of the human suffering this will cause is deeply worrying. There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger — currently 276 million — could soon rise by as many as 47 million. To address the problem, one thing that…
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It’s a saying we’ve heard time and time again – reduce, reuse, recycle. For a lot of us, we’re primarily focusing on the last part of the trio, right? Tossing our empty soda cans, wine bottles and plastic food containers into our blue-lined garbage can and setting it out for pickup each week. Don’t get…
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Unprecedented forest fires in the drought-stricken Western United States. Tropical storms and rising seas threatening the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Sizzling heat across swaths of the country. As climate change unfolds before our eyes, what can the US do to sharply and rapidly reduce its share of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing it?…
At least 25 major US companies, including Amazon.com Inc., AT&T, Walmart, General Motors, Verizon and Charter Communications, have come out in vocal support for the LGBTQ community for Pride Month – while also donating more than $ 13 million since the start. of 2021 to politicians who support anti-LGBTQ legislation. That’s according to the Popular…
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A nonprofit that pushes for better disclosure of corporate political spending is sharply expanding its effort to track how forthcoming companies are, with the greater scrutiny prompted by Wall Street’s largest money managers. Business ethics fall under the “governance” component of the growing environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment category, although depending on which cause…
Flying over Antarctica, it’s hard to see what all the fuss is about. Like a gigantic wedding cake, the frosting of snow on top of the world’s largest ice sheet looks smooth and unblemished, beautiful and perfectly white. Little swirls of snow dunes cover the surface. But as you approach the edge of the ice…
Sheryl Sandberg’s departure from Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. FB, + 4.45% puts her on a growing list of female billionaires who have recently turned their attention to philanthropy. Sandberg wrote Wednesday in a Facebook post that she would be leaving after 14 years at the company and will be “focusing more on my foundation…
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