See How a 350-Year-Old Brewery Makes Sake the Hard Way (Gift Article) In Japan, the Terada Honke brewery holds fast to tradition: wild yeast, ancient songs, and a mixture of muscle and finesse.

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‘Get back to work’: Amazon faces fresh scrutiny over workplace safety record Workers and labor advocates say the company’s injury rates and how it treats injured staff remain a problem

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Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections

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Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.

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After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change

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Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own

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Three Ways to Reclaim Wood - Urban Omnibus Brooklyn-based studio Tri-Lox intervenes on the city’s waste stream, repurposing wood to furnish everything from Shake Shack interiors to Shakespeare in the Park.

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China’s Electrostate Is Poised to Win From War in the Middle East

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Pearl Fryar, a Picasso of Plants, Dies at 86

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The Economist Who Wants to Solve America’s Wage Problem The economist Arindrajit Dube believes that the answer to fixing America’s wage problem is to empower workers and set mandatory wage standards across industries.

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Taking on Water www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

‘The danger and value of water are in my blood’: how rain fences are making Dutch homes more climate resilient Housing corporations are adopting rainwater storage in garden fences, reducing pressure during downpours and preserving water for times of drought

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Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereignty

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Why thousands of New Yorkers swap gas for induction stoves in clean energy push: ‘It makes sense’ US states from California to Georgia are promoting induction stoves for climate, health and cost benefits

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No tuition, no grades, no power grid: why are people flocking to a ‘college’ in the middle of the desert? Two hundred miles from LA, an off-grid community with roots in Burning Man offers an unorthodox educational experience – is Mars College the future?

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Saving Hermit Crabs by Breeding Them in the Suburbs

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‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C? A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

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China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say

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How a Melting Glacier Could Affect Tens of Millions Around the Globe (Gift Article) A collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica would sharply accelerate sea-level rise in coastal cities.

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‘A must-have for the times we live in’: fruit trees planted in a Florida ‘food desert’ counter soaring prices A partnership aims to ease food insecurity in low-income areas underserved by grocery stores

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Amid fuel crunch, Cuba mechanic converts car to run on charcoal | CBC News A Cuban mechanic has converted his 1980 Fiat Polski to run on charcoal, a cheaper and more abundant fuel than gasoline since Washington cut off oil shipments to the Caribbean island in January.

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Why Tech Giants Are Ditching the Power Grid (Gift Article) Seeking power for data centers, Meta and other companies plan to use equipment that is expensive and polluting.

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

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New York City Rebuilds a Waterfront Park to Hold Back Rising Seas After a $1.45 billion makeover, East River Park promises to use massive sea walls and earthen berms to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding. But for how long?

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The Biggest Barrier to Textile Recycling? Disassembly Zips, buttons, and labels all stand in the way of recycling our clothing. But removing them can be time, cost, and labor-intensive.

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Life in Plastic: It’s Not Fantastic

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Dolphins spotted in the East River, off Randall's Island YouTube video by CBS New York

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How Toronto's snow mountains hide a toxic secret – video Guardian reporter Leyland Cecco visits an almost 100ft-tall mountain of collected snow

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Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

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