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Florida wildlife officials consider reopening bay nationally known for its oysters
Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five years after the waters were closed due to dwindling shellfish populations
Supermarket gunman who targeted Black people wants charges dropped, says grand jury was too white
Attorneys for the gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket argue that federal charges should be dropped due to a lack of minority representation on the grand jury
New York allowed pot shops to open too close to schools. Now they might have to move
New York’s legal marijuana agency allowed dozens of cannabis dispensaries to open too close to schools after regulators misread state law and are now pushing for a legislative fix to prevent the pot shops from having to relocate
Sexual violence in conflicts worldwide increased by 25% last year, UN says
The U.N. says sexual violence in conflicts worldwide increased by 25% last year, with the highest number of cases in the Central African Republic, Congo, Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan
The tiny ocean organisms that could help the climate in a big way
Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. They process so much of those two gases, in fact, that they’re responsible for half of the...
For Indigenous communities, AI brings peril — and promise
When the United Nations marked the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples last week, it signaled a growing recognition of a new kind of extraction. Artificial intelligence, or AI, systems are being trained on massive troves of online data, much of it collected without the consent of the communities...
Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives
For several years now, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the United States. Instead of burning fossil fuels to generate warmth, these appliances use electricity — ideally provided by renewable sources like wind and solar — to transfer heat from even frigid outdoor air into a home. Many states...
Factory farms don’t just stink — they make it harder to breathe, too
New research out this week underscores what many environmental justice advocates in the U.S. have long known: Animal feeding operations — another term for factory farming — pollute the air, and these environmental impacts are disproportionately felt by nearby communities, who are often people of color. The report, published Tuesday and...
‘I came back stronger’: freestyle skier Kirsty Muir on injury and Olympic medal ambitions
With the Winter Olympics less than six months away, the Scottish medal hopeful talks about her hopes of improving on a muted, Covid-hit Games debut in 2021 ‘I feel OK,” says Kirsty Muir. “It’s slightly overwhelming but somehow strangely feels normal.” The air at the Team GB media summit in Edinburgh...