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Tree Project Aims to Put the Oak Back in Oakland
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 23rd, 2015
New York Times: In the beginning, before stylized images of oak trees started appearing on T-shirts, bumper stickers and even Mayor Libby Schaaf’s election-night earrings in November, there were actually oak woodlands in Oakland. And while this may be the largest city in America named after a tree, these days there are very few of the oaks left. Thus began the fledgling campaign to “re-oak” Oakland, which started on a recent weekend when a team of volunteers planted an inaugural stand of 72 saplings of coast live...
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When Kenyan Children’s Lives Hang on a Drip
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 23rd, 2015
Inter Press Service: Acute watery diarrhoea is a major killer of young children but misunderstanding over the benefits of fluid treatment is preventing many Kenyan parents from resorting to this life-saving technique and threatening to reverse the strides that the country has made in child health.
The 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, released in April this year, reports that the country's under-five mortality rate fell to 52 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2014, down from the 74 deaths in 2008-09, but still...
The danger of climate denial
Posted by Baltimore Sun: None Given on May 23rd, 2015
Baltimore Sun: It's Memorial Day, and the forecast is for renewed mocking and derision regarding man-made climate change from the know-nothing, science-averse wing of the Republican Party. President Barack Obama's warning - issued during his commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremonies Wednesday - that climate change represents a national security threat seems certain to provoke that kind of stormy reaction.
For those who actually serve in the military, however, the response is...