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Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Chairman of the House Financial Service Committee Maxine Waters (D-CA) listen as David Marcus, CEO of Facebook’s Calibra, testifies on "Examining Facebook's Proposed Cryptocurrency and Its Impact on…

““A lot of the money is going into trees … Don’t we have enough trees around here?””…

More than half of all human infectious diseases in recorded history — Lyme, West Nile, hantavirus, typhoid, HIV and influenza, to name a few — have been exacerbated by the mounting impacts of greenhouse gas-driven climate change. That is…

The US Senate started debating a $430 billion (€422.3 billion) climate change, healthcare and tax bill, after Vice President Kamala Harris voted in favor of the Democrats to break a tie against unanimous Republican opposition on…

On Wednesday, the preliminary details of a sweeping bill that would fund unprecedented climate change measures were announced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The tentative deal…

Around 2030, the Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from the numerical naming convention. It will also be an upgrade.“Even when Landsat 9 was still being built, we were talking to…

Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer’s newsletter about living through climate change, here.Last month, somewhere off the coast of Maine, a small group of researchers and engineers released a series of tiny, floating objects…

President Joe Biden needs a course correction, or the Democrats face disaster in the midterm elections. That’s tough with a cabinet and White House staff formed to appease woke progressives. America’s hard…

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at Germanna Community College February 10, 2022 in Culpeper. Virginia.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesMore than 80 House Democrats this week called on President Joe Biden to restart negotiations…

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