US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Federal effort will focus on marginalized areas in all parts of country and aims to reduce extreme heat and benefit health
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Federal effort will focus on marginalized areas in all parts of country and aims to reduce extreme heat and benefit health
Outcome could reshape how public accesses and interacts with the internet, or embolden Google to pursue tighter grip on the market
When I mean “specific,” I mean things like something dedicated to a certain genre, a certain video game, to gaming suggestions, to asking whether you should buy a certain game… anything that isn’t just one catch-all for any video gaming topic. So I’m not including the various !games@instance or !gaming@instance links....
The former White House adviser was found guilty on two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
Ruby Franke, the YouTube mommy blogger behind the channel 8 Passengers, was arrested last week after her 12-year-old son climbed out a window and ran to a neighbor's house asking for food and water.
Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio is set to be sentenced Tuesday for his leadership role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Fossil fuel and industrial agriculture industries in the Global South are receiving an annual average of 20 times more financing from banks than governments are receiving for climate solutions. Banks have put $3.2 trillion towards the expansion of fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement, with $370 billion being funneled into the...
With Twitter and Reddit the way that they are, many people are turning to federated servers as their online home, kbin among them....
Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting!...
Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence....
"I think what we are seeing [now] is an extension of the Tea Party movement," the former staffer told Newsweek.
In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.
Sherri Tenpenny is no longer a licensed physician after airing fringe comments and ducking investigators.
This is brutal for team ShitGibbon.
Was banned from the sinusitis subreddit for telling (apparently a mod) that a deviated septum absolutely can cause a sinus infection. He got upset and banned me- and even denied my ability to respond to the ban....
https://kbin.social/m/modernmisogyny...
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
A VEGAN influencer is feared to have died of starvation after attempting to live on a fruit only diet. Zhanna Samsonova, 39, previously told how she spent four years eating and drinking just fruits…
Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.
A case would be a high-water mark for FTC Chair Lina Khan who gained prominence criticizing the company’s dominance.
Tactics used to censor the teaching of American history in Florida schools bear much in common with those seen in the illiberal democracies of Israel, Turkey, Russia and Poland....
The anti-government leader waged a crusade over treatment of an ally’s grandson, known as Baby Cyrus.
Footage shows Peter Francis Stager assaulting a fallen Capitol police officer with an American flag.
The minimum has been an unlivable $7.25 an hour under three presidents. Today’s wage is worth less than at any point since 1956