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Roe Overturned: What You Need to Know about the US Supreme Court Abortion Decision

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BOSTON, USA, Jun 27 2022 (IPS) - After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down on June 24, 2022 – has far-reaching consequences. The Conversation asked Nicole Huberfeld and Linda C. McClain, health law and constitutional law experts at Boston University, to explain what just happened, and what happens next.

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Why Biden Just Declared Heat Pumps and Solar Panels Essential to National Defense

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Solar panels, heat pumps and hydrogen are all building blocks of a clean energy economy. But are they truly “essential to the national defense”? President Joe Biden proclaimed that they are in early June when he authorized using the Defense Production Act to ramp up their production in the U.S., along with insulation and power […]

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Plastic Trash in the Ocean is a Global Problem, and the US is the Top Source

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Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes clear that the U.S. is a big part of the problem. As the report shows, the U.S. […]

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Racial Discrimination Ages Black Americans Faster, According to a 25-Year-Long Study of Families

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I’m part of a research team that has been following more than 800 Black American families for almost 25 years. We found that people who had reported experiencing high levels of racial discrimination when they were young teenagers had significantly higher levels of depression in their 20s than those who hadn’t. This elevated depression, in […]

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Forged a New Place for Women in the Law and Society

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has generated an outpouring of grief around the globe. Part of this grief reflects her unparalleled status as a feminist icon and pioneer for women in the legal profession and beyond. There is already considerable interest in what her departure means for the future of the US Supreme Court, and […]

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Black Americans are Bearing the Brunt of Coronavirus Recession – This Should Come as no Surprise

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As the COVID-19 pandemic worsened in April, many Americans were shocked by the extent that black Americans were being disproportionately impacted: higher infection rates, more deaths and greater job loss. But many black Americans were not surprised. This is not new. The same dynamic has been going on at times of crisis for decades and […]

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Ground-breaking Clean Air Protocol to Guard Human Health and the Planet, Enters into Force

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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 5 2019 (IPS) - European and North American countries will take a major stride in cleaning up the atmosphere next Monday, 7 October, through the implementation of an amended legally binding treaty to limit the amount of emissions polluting the air.

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Roe Overturned: What You Need to Know about the US Supreme Court Abortion Decision

Why Biden Just Declared Heat Pumps and Solar Panels Essential to National Defense

Plastic Trash in the Ocean is a Global Problem, and the US is the Top Source

Racial Discrimination Ages Black Americans Faster, According to a 25-Year-Long Study of Families

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Forged a New Place for Women in the Law and Society

Black Americans are Bearing the Brunt of Coronavirus Recession – This Should Come as no Surprise

Ground-breaking Clean Air Protocol to Guard Human Health and the Planet, Enters into Force

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