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Big Papi Ortiz heads to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Tyler Perry’s Madea is back, and more news you might have missed.

Barbadian National Hero, Rihanna Fenty, has joined the fight against climate change. Earlier this week, Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation pledged to donate $15 million to 18 organizations that are fighting for climate just

Her donation was made under the #StarSmall initiative.

The Clara Lionel Foundation announced a new partnership with #StartSmall and a $15M commitment to climate justice in the U.S. and the Caribbean. 

/PRNewswire/ -- The Bezos Earth Fund announced it awarded 44 grants totaling $443 million to organizations focused on climate justice, nature conservation and...

Si è conclusa ieri sera alla 22 la votazione on line. Il 92,8% ha scelto l’ex premier. Che non scarta elezioni politiche nel 2022

Credit Kelsey Ciugun Wallace Wednesday, May 5 is the day set aside to remember the Indigenous women who are missing or have been murdered. According to data gathered by Data for Indigenous Justice, Native women end up missing and murdered in disproportionate numbers. Kelsey Ciugun Wallace, with Native People’s Action, says that this is the first baseline report on the number of murdered and missing indigenous women, and can be found here.  “There is a total of 229 murdered and missing In...

For the Interior homeowners who want to switch to solar energy, a local initiative is looking for solutions to cut costs when making the switch. A community-led program, Solarize Fairbanks, makes solar more affordable by stacking up group discounts, purchasing solar systems in bulk and looking for federal and local financial incentives. When Bob and Sharon Baker approached Solarize Fairbanks, they had been “wanting to learn about solar power for quite a long time.” â€...

An Inuit carver works on his art on the shore of Frobisher Bay in the Canadian town of Iqaluit, Nunavut. (CNS photo/Shaun Best, Reuters) Editors note: This story originally appeared in EOS and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. On one level, the Arctic and the U.S. Southwest have little in common: One has kilometers of bone-chilling temperatures, ice, and months of darkness; the other ha...

Brian Adams Decades of legal action, speculation and political wrangling over drilling on the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge culminated in an underwhelming lease sale on Jan. 6. Only three parties placed bids for drilling rights on the land on the state’s North Slope, which is considered crucial habitat for the Porcupine caribou herd. The sale garnered about $14 million, according to the Bureau of Land Management — much less than a 2017 Congressional Budget Offi...