By Bernadette DeVito, Kings County Politics To the dismay of Democrats across the nation, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was killed by a U.S. airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump. The White House claimed on Twitter that the strike was carried out to protect Americans in the Middle East, asserting: “The U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to […]readmore
By Damian Carrington, Environmental Editor, The Guardian The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists. “We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” it states. “To secure a sustainable […]readmore
By Greta Thunberg This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to me for hope! How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky […]readmore
Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe Sunday night after excelling through rounds of swimsuit and evening gown struts, questions on social issues and one final chance to explain why she was the right choice. “I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me — with my kind of skin and my […]readmore
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Scientists say they are bidding farewell to Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, in a funeral of sorts. Researchers will gather Sunday in Borgarfjörður, Iceland, to memorialize Okjökull, known as Ok for short, after it lost its status as a glacier in 2014. The inscription, titled “A letter to […]readmore
By Dr. Christopher Boxe Saturday, July 20th, 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the first humans (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) landing on the moon via NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar mission. The landing site, the “Sea of Tranquility” (Mare Tranquilliatatis), was chosen via Range 8, which took over 7,000 high-resolution images of the moon […]readmore
Homes in Washington, DC’s Brookland were condemned to clear room for a highway in the 1960s. The community fought back. Brig Cabe / DC Public Library By Teju Adisa-Farrar & Raul Garcia In the summer of 1969, a banner hung over a set of condemned homes in what was then the predominantly Black and Brown Brookland […]readmore
Climate Change Flood, drought, fire, famine and pestilence. These are some of the consequences of the changing world climate. And they are not distant happenings, they are here now and will only become more fearsome with each passing year, and more and more horrifying with each passing decade. Last week, we spoke with Dr. Jason […]readmore
