The results of the first nationally representative survey on climate education in U.S. schools are in, and reveal, according to one noted scientist, that “we are failing students.” The survey of 1,500 middle and high school science teachers in 50 states was conducted by the Penn State Survey Research Center (SRC) and the National Center …
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Public schools in Newark, New Jersey, were forced to shut off water fountains on Wednesday after test results showed high levels of lead in the water supply. “Officials say they do not know how long students at nearly half of the Newark’s schools may have been drinking water with elevated levels of lead,” reported Dan …
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Dr. James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who is widely credited with being one of the first to raise concerns about human-caused global warming, is a co-author of a new report predicting that the world will undergo devastating sea level rise within mere decades—not centuries, as previously thought. The report, published Tuesday in the open-access …
In a contentious and sometimes “feisty” debate in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday night the contrasts between Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was once again made stark. Click Here: Putters On key issues—including fracking and climate change; Wall Street and corporate influence; regime change in Iraq, Libya, and Syria; the road towards peace …
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Red Bull boss Christian Horner says it would have been interesting to see what Formula E champion Antonio Felix da Costa might have been able to achieve in Formula 1 if he’d been given the opportunity. Early in his career da Costa was part of Red Bull’s junior driver programme headed by Dr Helmut Marko …
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British singer Rita Ora is teaming up with ShoeDazzle on a new curated collection of footwear inspired by her “creativity and individuality”. Click Here: camiseta rosario central The collection for autumn/winter 2020, features red-carpet-ready heels to sneakers, knee-high boots and combat boots. Highlights include a teal asymmetrical stiletto boot, over-the-knee lace-up combat boots, a metallic …
As world leaders gathered in Washington, D.C. this week for the start of a Nuclear Security Summit, activists gathered in McPherson Square on Friday urging them to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Activists with the anti-nuclear group Global Zero rallied with a four-story inflatable missile, which they said represented one of the 15,000 nuclear weapons that …
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In a public lecture delivered last week and published online Tuesday, award-winning Canadian author and social justice activist Naomi Klein argues the dire situation of climate change, coupled with failing political and economic systems, is creating a world where nobody will be left unaffected. “It is not about things getting hotter and wetter but things …
Bernie Sanders’ campaign on Tuesday afternoon called for a recanvass of the Kentucky primary that took place last week. “He’s in this until every last vote is counted and he’s fighting for every last delegate.”—Michael Briggs, Sanders’ spokesmanHillary Clinton was declared the winner by just 1,924 votes, according to the results posted online by Kentucky’s …
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Top Democratic donors in the financial industry are threatening revolt after news broke that top Wall Street critic and progressive darling Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is one of the leading candidates for vice president under Hillary Clinton. An in-depth report published by Politico on Monday cites a dozen interviews with Clinton’s Wall Street backers—of which …
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