Recently, we merry mods have been noticing many-a-comments being in the report queue for perceived negativity (the aim of the community being to provide “a break from the incessant negativity and rage"). What actions should we do about these, if any? Do we need a newsome another-rule for this?
Since it’s slightly less than easy to glean the rules from the sidebar, here’s an itemized collection of rules. For example, the schadenfreude rule can be referred to as a)1.
Clean energy, largely wind and solar, have grown significantly over the last decade, due largely to policies by a range of countries, including China, Germany and the U.S.
The financier’s ties to President Donald Trump have led to mounting suspicion, including from fellow Republicans like Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who have said they plan to join Democrats in voting for the files’ release.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, green sea turtles had the second-highest nesting season on record for Florida, with 61,708 nests as of the August update. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said that green sea turtles have improved in status from "Endangered" to "Least Concern."
Pete Hegseth‘s Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules — and says it may bar journalists who don’t agree to abide by the rules from physical access to the Pentagon’s grounds. But more than three dozen news orgs have said they are refusing to sign on to the requirements.
[A] sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry Louis Gates Jr. once put it — “surely as gay as it was Black.”
“I believe that people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life,” the prime minister commented on the new proposal.
but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation. [...] Coal, a major contributor to global warming, was still the world's largest individual source of energy generation [...] Despite these regional differences, Ember calls this moment a "crucial turning point".
“I don’t think you have to have any connection to foster care in your past,” the father of two told the news outlet. “It’s just about a basic understanding that, as a society, how can you not take care of our children? So I don’t think it requires a connection. It just requires having a heart.”
The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas. [...] The High Seas Treaty, as it is known, was ratified by a 60th nation, Morocco, crossing the threshold for United Nations treaties to go into effect. Two decades in the making, it allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.
Earlier this year, Hechinger contributor Sarah Carr wrote about how, across the country, far too few parents are made aware of the kinds of therapies their babies are entitled to under federal law. Such early intervention services can ultimately reduce the need for these children to require costly special education support as school children.
The plant, operated by the Fukuoka District Waterworks Agency, marks Japan as only the second country in the world to deploy this technology after a Danish company pioneered it in 2023, according to Kyodo News. Local officials and experts present the project as a breakthrough for renewable energy that can run around the clock, unaffected by weather or sunlight, and without emitting carbon dioxide. “I feel overwhelmed that we have been able to put this into practical use. I hope it spreads not just in Japan, but across the world,” said Akihiko Tanioka, professor emeritus at the Institute of Science Tokyo, in comments to Kyodo News.
A nonprofit plans to ask four states to participate in a $19.5 million initiative aimed at transforming how people transition from prison to the workforce.
Thousands of Dallas families received free school supplies, shoes, and more at For Oak Cliff's annual back-to-school event ahead of the new school year.
A California-based biotechnology startup has officially launched the world's first commercially available butter made entirely from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, eliminating the need for traditional agriculture or animal farming. Savor, backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, announced the commercial release of its animal- and plant-free butter after three years of development.
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