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For much of its run, Game of Thrones was the biggest show on television, and then it went out with a whimper.
As HBO trumpets its 10th anniversary, there's one question — does anyone still care? https://t.co/CGQmzGcTMd
@dwallacewells@today_explained 2/2 This April, our podcasts are teaming up to cover some of the most important issues threatening life on Earth.
Here’s how to listen to every episode in the series: https://t.co/Z59IG4dih6
1/ In 2019, @dwallacewells wrote a book called The Uninhabitable Earth about the consequences of global warming. Just two years later, he’s feeling hopeful — thanks to the world’s biggest polluters.
To learn why, listen to this @today_explained episode: https://t.co/HZAri42ferhttps://t.co/jS1Js5Ui9i
For Unexplainable's Earth Day ep, we're talking about the ocean, not only because the Earth is mostly ocean, but also because the denizens of the ocean's deep could play a key role in slowing climate change.
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This #EarthDay2021, as the pandemic grinds on, @BenjiSJones and I took stock of just some of the things we learned about our planet, and our place in the fragile yet resilient web of life throughout it, over the past year. https://t.co/stv2j4NTDy
Qualified immunity gives police officers broad protections against lawsuits, but it isn’t grounded in the Constitution.
That means that Congress has the power to alter the doctrine however it chooses.
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The Senate — in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote — sent Congress’s strongest message yet condemning anti-Asian hate crimes by passing a bill aimed at improving data collection.
Only Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) voted against it.
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But just because your job *can* be done remotely doesn't mean it *will* be. A number of cultural barriers remain for remote work. I'm looking at you, finance industry! https://t.co/HCB5IqAdQEhttps://t.co/K0gTzbvSiU
These are just a select few of the hundreds of new species that scientists documented since last year's #EarthDay.
These species discoveries are a reminder that Earth’s ecosystems are abundant and full of life — if we protect them. https://t.co/Ewkr0bF7nc
Next month, cicadas on the East Coast will gather in search of mates, altering the population dynamics of predators like birds — and even fueling the growth of plants and trees.
Remarkably, some of those effects will last for years. https://t.co/vR1cNiVJvh
The new US climate change target is to cut greenhouse gas emissions 50 to 52 percent below where they were in 2005. And President Joe Biden wants to reach that goal in less than 10 years.
But is it enough? https://t.co/p7sFHgGSmk