The Delta variant is challenging China’s costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings to Chinese leaders that a less disruptive approach is needed to try to keep the coronavirus out of the country. As the highly contagious variant pushes leaders in the U.S., Australia and elsewhere to renew restrictions, Chinese […]
The world’s rainforests are under siege. Climate change has driven the average temperature of the Amazon rainforest up by as much as 1.5 degrees Celsius. As a result of higher temperatures and deforestation, drought has surged. In 2019 alone, tens of thousands of wildfires destroyed 2.24 million acres. Humans have […]
We Didn’t Have the “Green Thing” Back In My Day In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to her and explained, we didn’t have the “green thing” back in my day. That’s […]
Scientists want to store DNA of 6.7 million species on the moon, just in case A “lunar ark” hidden inside the moon’s lava tubes could preserve the sperm, eggs and seeds of millions of Earth’s species, a group of scientists has proposed. The ark, or gene bank, would be safely […]
National Grammar Day is observed in the United States on March 4. Designated in 2008, the National Grammar Day was established by Martha Brockenbrough, author of “Things That Make Us [Sic]” (2008) and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. Martha Brockenbrough: Martha Brockenbrough is an American […]