A registered nurse administers the COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of a woman at the Corona High School gymnasium in the Riverside County city of Corona, California. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images It was only a matter of time before cases of the COVID-19 omicron variant s.
Children being born now will experience extreme climate events at a rate that is two to seven times higher than people born in 1960, according to a new study in the journal Science. The researchers compared a person born in 1960 with a child who was six years old in 2020. That six-year-old will experience twice as many cyclones and wildfires, three times as many river floods, four times as many crop failures and five times as many droughts. Read more about the study here. These extreme changes not only endanger the environment, they take a toll on our mental health. KNAU reporter Melissa Sevigny spoke with residents in Flagstaff, Arizona who are reeling from a summer rife with fires and floods. And NPR s Michel Martin spoke with two climate activists of different generations Jasmine Butler and Denis Hayes about their outlook on the planet s future amid new climate change reports. In participating regions, you ll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what s
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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You may not know this, but this podcast has a kind of parent program - a radio show here at NPR called All Things Considered. See what we did there? And 50 years ago this week in May of 1971, that show, All Things Considered, was born.
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LINDA WERTHEIMER: I hate that job. It was the worst job I ever had.
CORNISH: Linda Wertheimer was hired to direct the show, which sounded like this.
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MINOW: .And most of all, boredom.
CORNISH: It was becoming clear that the public wasn t getting the benefit from the airwaves that it owned. And so in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson formalized an alternative. It was called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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LYNDON B JOHNSON (36TH US PRES): .The Corporation of Public Broadcasting (ph). This corporation will assist stations and producers who aim for the best. We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. And while we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want, most of all, to enrich man s spirit. And that is the purpose of this act.