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Capture Silver Spring with your camera. Attend the DC Transportation & the Environment roundtable. Remove invasive plants in Reservation 630 West. Learn environmental home maintenance techniques. Read more in this week’s events post.
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, site of a savage Civil War battle on Sept. 17, 1862. NPSThe horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges. One of the deadliest battles fought on U.S. soil, for example, was the Battle of Gettysburg. Tens of thousands of men were killed or wounded in three days of fighting. Over 150 years later
Disaster responders sometimes miss the larger picture by examining natural disasters in isolation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy human toll all over the world; at this writing, more than 1 million people have died, and more than 40 million have been infected. As winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, cases are alarmingly on the rise again in the U.S. and Europe. The virus has disproportionately affected racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. and other countries, exposing long-standing economic disparities and inequities in health care. The U.S. is experiencing extreme unemployment. Researchers have mobilized as never before to develop COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Bu...