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originalpunkt/Shutterstock Kristy Dahl, senior climate scientist | December 18, 2020, 6:57 pm EDT Updated 1/4/2021 at 2:28 pm to clarify language in paragraph 16. In early January of this year, fresh off the experience of writing a year-end blog post for 2019, I started a project that I thought would make writing this year’s year-end post easier. I created a little 2020 calendar on which I planned to record the one big thing that happened in the climate change space each day. In my mind I called it “The Daily Big Deal,” a...

Longreads Best of 2020: Essays All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. This year, our editors picked and featured hundreds of beautifully written and poignant essays published on the web. Because of the wide range of writing across many topics and themes, it was a challenge to sift through them all over the past several weeks to compile a definitive Best of Essays list. As I shortlisted stories, I realized there could be many different versions of this list, but, in the end, these eight reads really spoke to me...

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, December 15, 2020 — American Humane , the country’s first national humane organization and the world’s largest certifier of animal welfare practices, today announced PetSmart Charities awarded them a $15,000 grant in support of critical disaster relief efforts in Northern California. The American Humane Rescue team deployed to assist with shelter operations and provide care for more than 200 animal victims of the California wildfires that ravaged more than 4 million acres. “We must continue to take action to ensure animals left homeless, panicke...

The year 2020 is virtually certain to rank among the five-warmest years on record. Students in Legazpi City, Philippines declare a climate emergency amid damage left by Super Typhoon Goni on November 8, 2020. Goni made landfall 30 miles northeast of Legazpi on November 1 with 195 mph winds, making it the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone ever recorded. (Photo credit: Bicol University Science Alliance) November 2020 was the second warmest November since global record keeping began in 1880, behind the record set in 2015, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, report...