Share this on WhatsApp In recent weeks, a flurry of headlines about healthcare workers treating people with COVID-19 have utilized a wide array of military metaphors: Doctors are fighting on the frontlines without sufficient ammunition. They are battling the enemy. They are at war. But we are not at war. And we certainly have not enlisted. […]
Share this on WhatsApp With world leaders meeting at the international climate change conference in Glasgow to negotiate urgent global action necessary to meet this greatest of challenges, many people still don’t know what must be done. Ever since the “code red” report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this August, many people […]
Share this on WhatsApp There’s a lot of cash crawling on the sea floor. American lobsters bring in more money than any other U.S. fishery—a record $670 million in 2016, mostly through Maine and Massachusetts. The fishery relies on traditional lobster harvest techniques—a series of traps are dropped to the ocean floor with a long […]