In the years since the Supreme Court rejected Kivalina’s appeal on May 20, 2013, the community’s search and rescue team has faced increasing climate disasters: ‘We just can’t adapt this fast.’
It would be a wasted opportunity if our political leaders came back again in six months without a long-term plan about how to fund and improve the system.
A national dental care program for low-income Canadians plans to launch coverage for children under age 12 in 2022.
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A national dental care program is welcome news, but raises several ‘billion-dollar’ questions about how the program will work and what will be covered. Here are seven principles to guide decisions.
About 30 million students eat school lunches daily.
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Ryan E. Tompkins, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources et Susan Kocher, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
After another devastating wildfire year in the West, the Biden administration has a plan to ramp up forest thinning and prescribed burns. Two foresters explain why these projects are so important.
While a gas station might be 72 miles away, an EV charger may be much farther.
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The infrastructure bill being debated in Congress looks like a small but genuine down payment on a more climate-friendly transportation sector and electric power grid. What comes next is crucial.
In April 2020 all six Tŝilhqot’in communities decided to erect checkpoints to monitor and regulate travel to and from their reserves.
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The minutiae of bureaucratic policy and procedure perpetuates colonialism and undermined a fully Tŝilhqot’in-led pandemic response.
Satellites can quickly detect and monitor wildfires from space, like this 2017 fire that encroached on Ventura, California.
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Satellites can already spot a new fire within minutes, but the information they beam back to Earth isn’t getting to everyone who needs it or used as well as it could be.
Federal funding for human rights has declined, while funding for environmental issues has increased only incrementally since 2000.
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More than most other countries, the non-profit sector in Canada relies on government funding. Yet there is a shocking lack of transparency.
The new budget aims to financially assist school districts with high percentages of low-income students.
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A proposed ‘historic’ investment in schools that serve low-income children would also give the federal government more power over America’s schools, a political scientist argues.
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the challenges rural hospitals already faced.
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Australia relies on Indigenous people to meet our conservation goals, but they’re short-changed by federal funding.
An envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation’s only test run of the 2020 census.
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If undocumented immigrants choose not to fill out the questionnaire, then the official population of several states would deflate, costing them House seats and federal funding.
Assembling capacitors for electric automobiles at SBE, Inc. in Barre, Vermont, July 16, 2010. SBE received a $9 million stimulus grant to build electric drive components.
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