Cambridge, Massachusetts has joined a growing list of cities that have banned gas-powered leaf blowers. The city’s ban went into effect over the weekend, and officials noted this move was in the interest of public health and reducing emissions for the environment.
Hollywood actor Michael Sheen has paid off £1 million in debt for 900 people impacted by Tata Steel’s blast furnace closure in Port Talbot, South Wales, which left 2,800 workers jobless five months ago. The actor launched a debt acquisition initiative, personally investing £100,000 to buy and cancel debts instead of profiting from them.
In hundreds of places across the country and around the world, we have been sustained by our individual and collective voices of hope for human freedom, equality, compassion, and love. This is our survival kit for troubled times.
More than 14,000 seed samples are headed for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, where they’ll be preserved and protected against climate change, war, and other events that can threaten crops and plant diversity.
Do not allow external forces keep you from experiencing the internal freedom to choose how to respond and act, regardless of society’s gender expectations. The only one who can define you is you.
With Japanese know-how and the unwavering support of Japanese experts, Bhutan’s national bird is being hatched and hand-reared in captivity successfully for the first time ever. The major hurdle to rearing chicks was overcome, and two healthy birds were just hand-reared.
Michael Jordan has opened another health clinic in his home state of North Carolina, bringing the total to four clinics now serving the uninsured. The concept began in 2019 with a pair of clinics strategically placed in Charlotte to address barriers to care, including transportation.
Just over a quarter (26%) of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other than non-Hispanic White, making the 119th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to date. In continuation of a long-running trend, this is the eighth Congress to break the record set by the one before it.
Fish are thriving in the River Seine, which is teeming with marine life once again, as it did centuries ago. For years, the storied French waterway was nearly biologically dead, but now, “the Seine is a wild place in the heart of Paris.”
In what has been a particularly turbulent week in global affairs, the choice of ‘kindness’ as Oxford Children’s Word of the Year for 2024 offers a reminder of the hope we carry for younger generations. According to teachers, the choice of ‘kindness’, was selected by 61% of the youngsters asked.
Scientists from University of Oregon (UO) and partners recently discovered a hidden gem beneath the Cascade Mountain range: an enormous aquifer with water in volumes much higher than had previously been estimated, and that is desperately needed in the West.
Norway is on the cusp of bidding farewell to internal combustion vehicles forever now that the automotive transition in the country has reached highway speeds as 9 out of every 10 cars sold in Norway last year was electric.
President Biden has banned fossil fuel drilling across 600 million acres of US waters, permanently protecting coastal waters spanning the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico and 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea, off the coast of western Alaska.
Many families in Western North Carolina were facing the holiday season still in need of the perfect housing, after Hurricane Helene devastated their towns. But this month, thanks to Lowe’s relief efforts and hundreds of volunteer home builders, 100 tiny homes were donated.
President Joe Biden signed a bill into law making the bald eagle the national bird, so the once-endangered species can now fly alongside other national symbols including the national tree (the oak tree), the national floral emblem (the rose), and the national mammal (the bison).
The simple act of hugging may not only increase your bond with others but may also boost your physical and emotional health. The late Virginia Satir stated, "We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."
Despite the company’s public downplaying of the success and popularity of reusable glass bottles, Coca-Cola operates a thriving refillable glass bottle program in just this one US city, according to The Story of Stuff Project, which could be a key to tackling plastic pollution globally.
For more than a decade, About Fresh, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to fresh foods in underserved communities, has been working with All In, a mobile food truck that is now bringing affordable, fresh produce to families all over Boston. Wicked smart.
An adoption has been approved for Larry and Kelly Peterson, a couple with spina bifida, who have lovingly adopted daughter, Hadley, with the same condition, so they could offer her the love, support, and understanding she needed.
One last message from the Grandmothers comes as questions for you. What is your relationship to Mother Earth? She is speaking to us through melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, stronger storms, wildfires, floods. When will we listen to her?
The vast majority of people in the U.S. are concerned about the current state of polarization in the nation. These bridging groups show a way forward and offer strategies to help Americans build bridges across the country’s deepening political divide.
Starting in the fall of 2025, MIT students from families with incomes under $200,000 a year will not be charged tuition. Families making under $100,000 will not have to pay housing, dining or other fees, and they'll have an allowance for books and other personal expenses.
Cost and quality issues have long plagued the U.S. health care system. As research demonstrates, we have these problems because insurance companies are at the center of the system. If this system is so flawed, how did we get stuck with it in the first place?
After a year-long decoding effort with these white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background, a father-daughter duo won the race to decode an extraterrestrial message sent from Mars to test humanity.
“A huge thank you to board member Carol Bedrosian, whose daughter, Michella, has donated to and provided MMI with exhibit space at the Natural Living Expo free of charge for the past 17 years. This has contributed to our ability to fundraise annually, bringing in an additional $1,600 this year.
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