Climate Protesters March on New York, Calling for End to Fossil Fuels

Tens of thousands of people, young and old, filled the streets of Midtown Manhattan under blazing sunshine on Sunday to demand that world leaders quickly pivot away from fossil fuels dangerously heating the Earth. Their ire was sharply directed at President Biden, who is expected to arrive in New York Sunday night for several fund-raisers …

Photos of Libya’s Floods – The New York Times

Trouble was looming. That much was clear. For days, Libyans looked across the Mediterranean to Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria, where a powerful storm had already killed more than a dozen people. But when it got to the North African nation, disaster grew exponentially. Torrential rains swelled the waters behind two dams until they burst, inundating …

Trudeau Reshuffles His Cabinet – The New York Times

As voter frustration boiled because of inflation, housing prices, climate change and other issues, the newly shuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posed for a “family photo” on Wednesday. It resembled a portrait introducing a new cabinet after an election, said Jeni Armstrong, an instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa and a former political …