Are children too young to talk to about climate change? Some environmental educators say yes. But children are hearing about it from the media, from parents and siblings, and from friends at school and elsewhere. And data suggest many are […]

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By saving energy, hospitals in Ohio are saving money that they can put back into patient care. Rutschilling: “Hospitals are incredibly energy-intensive facilities. Our member hospitals utilize lots of lights, HVAC controls and complex medical machinery and equipment.” That’s Nolan […]

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For 17 years and counting, Americans have rated nursing as the most trusted profession. In the most recent Gallup survey, 84 percent rated nurses’ ethics as “very high” or “high” – 17 percentage points higher than medical doctors, who ranked […]

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In San Francisco’s historic Embarcadero District, people ride bikes, eat at waterfront restaurants, and stroll on piers that jut into San Francisco Bay. But rising seas pose serious flooding threats to the Embarcadero. Already, during extra-high tides, water spills over […]

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It was a climate-fearing couch potato’s dream-come-true: A full hour-long climate change episode on one of network television’s longest-lived and premier Sunday morning public policy talk-show programs. And without a peep from those designated by the program’s host as “climate […]

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On the I-710 freeway in L.A., more and more diesel trucks carry goods from the city’s huge port to rail yards and warehouses. For decades, the city’s been considering a freeway expansion project to make room for even more traffic. […]

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Almost 40 years ago, Marleine Bastien fled a brutal dictatorship in Haiti. She resettled in an impoverished area of Miami that came to be known as Little Haiti. She says refugees worked hard to buy homes and build a community […]

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In the wake of recent months’ often dire news on projected climate change impacts, optimism and hope in “solutions” can inform, hearten, and guide us. So long as those emotions are grounded in pragmatism and reality. One good recent piece […]

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For some healthcare providers, climate change is an urgent concern. Gerwig: “We see increased cases of asthma, other respiratory diseases, cardiovascular disease. The wildfires and severe storms that are happening … those also have health impacts. They displace people. Even […]

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Niger and other countries in the Sahel region of Africa are facing a brutal combination of the highest population growth rates in the world and the devastating effects of climate change – a combination that spells disaster. Some scientists now […]

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