Environment & Climate
Controlled Burns: The Billion-Dollar Firefighting Secret Taxpayers Overlook
**Controlled Burns: The Billion-Dollar Firefighting Secret Taxpayers Overlook**
*By Elena Vasquez, Global1.news*
SACRAMENTO — As wildfire seasons grow more ferocious, a deceptively simple tool is quietly saving taxpayers billions: intentional fire.
Prescribed burns—carefully set, low-intensity fires that clear dead brush—cost a fraction of the aerial armadas deployed to fight megafires. Yet federal land managers still treat them as an afterthought.
The math is stark....
Drawing a Line in the Sand: Rural NC Battles PFAS Pollution
Drawing a Line in the Sand: Rural NC Battles PFAS Pollution
Downstream from industrial sprawl, rural communities in North Carolina are waging an escalating war against “forever chemicals” that have poisoned their water and soil. For decades, PFAS compounds—linked to cancer, immune disorders, and developmental delays—flowed quietly from manufacturing sites like the Chemours plant into the Cape Fear River, turning wells and farmland across Bladen, Cumberland, and...
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BRICS Turns the Bretton Woods Table: A Quiet Revolution in Global Finance
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Drawing a Line in the Sand: Rural NC Battles PFAS Pollution
Drawing a Line in the Sand: Rural NC Battles PFAS Pollution
Downstream from industrial sprawl,...
VISA PURGE: U.S. SILENCES COSTA RICAN PRESS CRITICAL OF TRUMP LOYALIST
VISA PURGE: U.S. SILENCES COSTA RICAN PRESS CRITICAL OF TRUMP LOYALIST
The State Department just...