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The pandemic has rocked our economy and further destroyed confidence in government. Enter “one of the most active” hurricane seasons on record. This hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November 30, will be “one of the most active” on record, some of the country’s top weather forecasters are predicting. By the end of […]

As we enter another hurricane season in the midst of a global pandemic, there are growing calls to respond to the climate emergency at the scale we’ve responded to COVID-19. Yet many climate solutions being proposed fail to address the 71 percent of the planet that’s blue. In early 2019 our organizations began developing an Ocean […]

Marching at the first Earth Day 50 years ago I saw signs reading ‘Mother Nature Bats Last.’  Who knew there’d be actual bats involved?  Yes, destruction of nature and wildlife including bats has given us pandemics including COVID-19, also the climate emergency and extinction crisis.  For an investigative history of the environmental backlash that’s delaying […]

The pandemic is only one of many potential disasters that will require unity of action among the armed services. President Trump has finally called in the military in the nation’s war against the coronavirus. But precious time was lost in the weeks since he was warned about the dangers the virus poses. We need to […]