By Caitlin Doughty Graphics by Taylor Maggiacomo Caitlin Doughty is an undertaker and author of three books on death and the funeral industry. She founded The Order of the Good Death, a non-profit organization that promotes end-of-life alternatives. Eight years ago, panting heavily in the humid summer air, I hauled a pair of orange work …
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Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate office collaboration. Over millions of years evolution, nature has found solutions to many problems. The humans arrived at the end of the day and pinched them. For example, Velcro was invented after a Swiss engineer marveled …
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CNN — Nuclear power in California received financial support from the Biden administration on Monday as the U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $1.1 billion grant to Pacific Gas & Electric to help extend life from its Diablo Canyon power plant on California’s central coast. The Diablo plant was to be decommissioned in two phases, …
As the earth warms and precipitation patterns change, trees are expected to migrate north in search of the weather to which they are suited. Scientists predict that trees will have to move faster than their natural abilities through seed propagation. This has led some scientists at the University of Vermont to try to restart this …
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