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The choice by Pope Francis to release “Laudate Deum” eight years after the publication of “Laudato Si’” is an unusual one, signaling an imminent climate crisis.

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Nationally, groundwater is the source of about 40 percent of water used for public supplies and about 39 percent for agriculture. Michiganders rely...

Climate change represents a planetary existential threat that jeopardizes human life and the lives of countless other species

By JAMES PRIBYL and ERIC WASHBURN

Take a look at where energy developers have built their Vermont wind projects: Every single one of them is in forestland that our Agency of Natural Resources has designated “highest priority.”

In the case of global warming, it is hard to overstate the urgency. We are confronted by apocalyptic ecological changes threatening life on Earth. The world’s best climate scientists have become so alarmed, they can no longer refrain from using hyperbolic terms to describe the existential threat.

As we celebrate the 4th of July, the 246th anniversary of our independence, let us all resolve to restore a flourishing democracy by being model citizens and thriving to be among the righteous.

Let’s celebrate our abundant freedoms and access to the everyday comforts of life and never take them for granted, while at the same time working to conserve our precious resources. And let’s all pull together to overcome the threats to our democracy and make it thrive again.

Paul Ward of Capital Kiwi says its possible to bring back rowi. Just look at the tūī and kererū in our neighbourhoods.