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As protests are taking place across our nation in response to the killing of George Floyd, we want to acknowledge the importance of this protest and the Black Lives Matter movement.  Here are 15 stories from our writers and our media partners that highlight racial and environmental injustice and are worth reading during this time.

Celebrating the Work of International Best-Selling Children’s Author David Walliams Second release in seven-coin series Available in Cupro Nickel Diamond

The pandemic has been a blessing for the nation’s authors – among them a lifelong Virginian who writes, on average, two books a year. His name is David Baldacci. His first novel – Absolute Power – sold 150 million copies. Now – at 60 – he’s ready to release three more books.

Klimatpolitiska protester i Washington D.C. 28 juni 2021. Foto: Stäng fullskärmsläge I västra Nordamerika har värmerekord efter värmerekord slagits sedan i lördags. Temperaturen har legat på över 49 grader.  För dem som anser att de pågående klimatförändringar är ett högst verkligt problem framstår klimatförnekelse som obegripligt. Men också den teknikoptimistiska miljöörelsen har svårt att acceptera vissa obekväma sanningar.  Helena Granström ser ett grundläggande p...

COVID-19, Nipah virus, SARS, MERS are some of the zoonotic diseases The outbreak of diseases is linked to environmental destruction: Experts New Delhi: Around nine years ago, David Quammen, Author, Spillover: Animal Infections & The Next Human Pandemic had predicted a zoonotic in his book. Zoonotic diseases or zoonosis refers to any infection or disease that jumps from a non-human/ animal to humans. In 2019, the world witnessed the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 disease. However, C...

174-year-old geoducks and other mysteries of Puget Sound history April 21, 2021 at 9:24 am Author David B. Williams at Richmond Beach in Shoreline; his new book is called "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound." (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) It’s been a transportation system and a source of food, and it’s a body of water that underpins thousands of years of history and culture in this area. And now, Puget Sound is the focus of an ambitious new history book. ...

The KGB Was More Messed Up Than You Thought Shutterstock By Gina Scanlon/March 8, 2021 1:45 pm EDT/Updated: March 22, 2021 10:08 am EDT The KGB is a three-letter acronym most people associate with dark alley espionage, heavy Russian accents, and Vladimir Putin. But do all those scary and downright ominous spy stories have any merit?  Considering the KGB spawned from the brainchild of one Joseph Stalin, a genocidal dictator, the organizations potential for destruction was immi...

Author David A. Fiensy has announced the release of his new book, The Archaeology of Daily Life: Ordinary Persons in Late Second Temple Israel, published by Cascade Books in December 2020. This book covers the first century Jewish people of Israel, the time of Jesus and the early New Testament.