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Jeff Bezos names Andrew Steer CEO of $10 billion Earth Fund

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, announces the formation of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington.Paul Morigi | Getty Images | AmazonJeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, named the head of a top environmental…

For Planet Earth, No Tourism is a Curse and a Blessing

For the planet, the year without tourists was a curse and a blessing.With flights canceled, cruise ships mothballed and vacations largely scrapped, carbon emissions plummeted. Wildlife that usually kept a low profile amid a crush of…

The Moon’s Comet-Like Tail Shoots Beams Across the Earth

Carl Sagan once said that the earth is just "a speck of dust floating in a ray of sunshine". He would probably be thrilled to know that at the time of a new moon, the earth is a speck of dust hanging in the tail of a moon.The moon, which…