Politics www.nytimes.com Ways to improve the planet after COVID Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.
Impacts www.nytimes.com When there's no heat: 'You need wood, you get wood' Community wood banks, like food banks, help people in need. Climate change is shaping their role.
Solutions www.nytimes.com Meet the gleaners, combing farm fields to feed the newly hungry An age-old tradition suddenly has fresh urgency in the pandemic, delivering surplus produce to Americans who can’t feed their families.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Virus crisis exposes cascading weaknesses in U.S. disaster response Nonprofits are sending fewer volunteers. Local emergency managers risk being overwhelmed. FEMA is trying “virtual” assistance. And hurricane season starts June 1.
Politics www.nytimes.com Australia’s volunteer firefighters are heroes. But are they enough? The country relies heavily on civilians to contain its fires, but the monstrous blazes that come with climate change threaten to break the system.
Solutions www.nytimes.com Buttigieg proposes national service programs for climate change and mental health Buttigieg proposed an expansion of voluntary national service to 250,000 Americans in the short term, offering access to student debt relief programs.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
