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First COVID-19, now mosquitoes: Bracing for bug-borne ills

by Elizabeth Duan | July 20, 2020
“As the coronavirus pandemic subsides for now in the hard-hit Northeast, public health officials in the region are warning about another potentially bad summer for EEE and other insect-borne illnesses. Meanwhile an environmental group is calling on Massachusetts to avoid resorting to ...

COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, and Our Urgent Duty to Rebuild This Country

by Tim Whitehouse | July 17, 2020
“If every crisis presents an opportunity, then these crises present an ultimatum: we have to address climate change, the economy, justice reforms, and rebuilding our government together, and we have to do it now.” ...

World renowned turtle expert Dr. Donna Shaver turns Whistleblower in dispute with National Parks Service

“A huge controversy has erupted out at the Padre Island National Seashore involving Dr. Donna Shaver. The Director of the Sea Turtle Recovery Program there has turned whistleblower by filing a federal complaint against PINS Superintendent Eric Brunnemann’s review of her department ...

Funding Cuts Imperil Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Program At Padre Island National Seashore

by Elizabeth Duan | July 16, 2020
“A National Park Service review of the renowned Kemp’s ridley sea turtle recovery program at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas is calling for substantial funding cuts and programmatic changes that would greatly hamstring the program and amount to “conservation ...

California worker safety agency ‘missing in action’ during the coronavirus, critics say

“As Gov. Gavin Newsom attempts to rein in the state’s rising coronavirus cases, the agency responsible for keeping California workers safe spent the July 4 holiday visiting more than 1,000 businesses to ensure they were following safety guidelines. Newsom hailed the multi-agency ...

Scientists fear for the world’s most endangered sea turtle as the Park Service cuts back

“Every summer, thousands of people travel to Padre Island National Seashore at dawn to cheer on sea turtle hatchlings as they are released into the surf. But after more than 40 years of supporting and celebrating the program, National Park Service officials appear to have soured on ...
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