By SYLVIE CORBET and NICOLAS GARRIGA – Associated Press LUX, France (AP) – A river once flowed through it. Now white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide ditch that winds between rows of trees in the former River Tille in the village of Lux in France’s Burgundy region. From dried up and …
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By SYLVIE CORBET and NICOLAS GARRIGA – Associated Press LUX, France (AP) – A river once flowed through it. Now white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide ditch winding between rows of trees in the former River Tille in the village of Lux in France’s Burgundy region. From dried up and cracked …
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A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in 10 countries, mostly in Africa, by 2030 to support 200,000 community health workers who serve as a crucial bridge to treating those with limited access to healthcare. The Skoll Foundation and the Johnson & Johnson Foundation announced Monday that they have donated a total of …
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By DYLAN LOVAN and BRUCE SCHREINER – Associated Press PRESTONBURG, Ky. (AP) — Some Appalachia residents returned to flood-ravaged homes and communities on Saturday to shovel mud and debris and salvage what they could, while the Kentucky governor said search and rescue operations were in the by Torrential torrents inundated region in ongoing rainy days …
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By ED DAVEY – Associated Press The world’s most influential banks must significantly accelerate climate efforts if global temperature rise is to be kept within the livability targets of the Paris Agreement, an assessment by a group of institutional investors released on Thursday warned. Efforts by 27 banking giants in North America, Europe and Asia …
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WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. July 2022– Today the House Education and Labor Committee introduced the Healthy Meals, Healthy Children Act (HR 8450) by a vote of 27 to 19. This comprehensive re-approval of state child nutrition programs includes important provisions to expand plant-based school meals and increase equity by removing barriers preventing children from accessing plant-based milk. …
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By DAVID KLEPPER – Associated Press When nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, America’s fossil fuel companies planned their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate. “Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute memo, “will be achieved when the average person …
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By DAVID KLEPPER – Associated Press When nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, America’s fossil fuel companies planned their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate. “Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute memo, “will be achieved when the average citizen …
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By LEE KEATH – Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world average over the past three decades. Rainfall has decreased and experts predict droughts will become more frequent and severe. The Middle East is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the …
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In 2018, at the suggestion of a group of veterinary researchers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began investigating whether the increasing popularity of grain-free dog food has led to a sudden rise in a potentially fatal heart disease in dogs called dilated cardiomyopathy. Four years later, the FDA has found no firm link between …
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