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How Environmental Activists and Reviews Can Worsen Wildfires

Firefighters battle the Oak Fire in Midpines, Calif., July 23. Photo: peter da silva/Shutterstock With more than three million acres already burned or burning, 2022 is shaping up to be another devastating year for wildfires in the U.S. America’s forests need to be managed more actively, a task the Biden administration took up earlier this […]

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US environmental study launched for Thirty Meter Telescope

HONOLULU — The National Science Foundation said Tuesday it plans to conduct a study to evaluate the environmental effects of building one of the world’s largest optical telescopes on sites selected in Hawaii and Spain’s Canary Islands. The agency published a notice in the Federal Register of its intentions to prepare an environmental impact statement […]

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International Health Care

Mental-Health Care Shortage Is Being Treated With Outdated Ratios

It is hard to read the news these days without hearing that many people in need of mental-health care aren’t getting it. Consideration of suicide shot up during the pandemic; opioid deaths soared 30%; the Surgeon General has warned of a youth mental-health crisis. “I talk to two-to-five CEOs of member agencies every week, and […]

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Celebrity Health

Celebrity designer accused of smuggling crocodile handbags | Lifestyles: Food, Home, Health

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities and characters in the “Sex and the City” TV series, was arrested in her hometown of Cali, Colombia, and faces extradition to the United States on charges of smuggling crocodile handbags, Colombian prosecutors said Friday. Nancy Gonzalez faces charges in the U.S. […]

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