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Another Bad-News Year Ahead for U.S. Coal?

As U.S. coal’s comedown continues, our latest Issue Backgrounder takes a close look at the factors behind the industry’s decline and finds a combination of economics, competition and shifting global markets, along with aging technology, politics and environmental pushback. What’s in store for coal in 2020?

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Federal Judge Restores Ban on Fishing Net That Entangles Whale Species

"Environmentalists hoping to save the North Atlantic right whale won a case in federal court in Washington, D.C., Monday, banning walls of fishing net that entangle the species, which has been on the brink of extinction since the 1970s."

Source: Courthouse News Service, 10/29/2019
September 24, 2019

Kavli Conversations on Science Communication: Covering Epidemics

Come to New York University, 6:00-8:00 p.m. (or online at 6:30 p.m.), for a conversation about covering epidemics, Ebola and beyond, with Nature reporter Amy Maxmen and Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of BU's Special Pathogens Unit, moderated by Robert Lee Hotz of The Wall Street Journal.

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September 23, 2019

U.N. Climate Action Summit 2019

The United Nations Secretary-General is calling on all leaders to come to New York on September 23, 2019 with concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020, in line with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent over the next decade, and to net zero emissions by 2050.

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