Gold vs. salmon: An Alaska mine project just got a boost
This swath of land looks like just another tract of Alaska's endless, roadless tundra, pockmarked with lakes and ponds. But this home to foraging bears and spawning salmon about 200...
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The lives of transit workers: Trauma and constant dread
When the coronavirus engulfed New York, it pummeled the transit workforce: So far, 131 transit workers have died from the virus and over 4,000 have tested positive, making the Metropolitan...
A climate plan in Texas focuses on minorities. Not everyone likes it.
Opponents have criticized the program as social engineering. Advocates have lauded it as long overdue. And for flood-prone cities nationwide, the controversial plan has become a test case for grappling...
In picking up work here and there, many miss out on unemployment check
Having multiple jobs is business as usual for millions of Americans. But many cobbled-together employment arrangements that enabled people to get by when the jobless rate was skimming along at...
‘It’s emotional whiplash’: California is once again at the center of the virus crisis
California's caseload is exploding, with rising deaths and hospitalizations. As quickly as things had opened up, they have shut down again.
What will happen to all the faces?
Will more of us have a list of things we'd like to fix after becoming better acquainted with our features over innumerable virtual meetings? Or, after a long break from...
Going topless, turning heads
Incredibly, Americans bought more station wagons in 2019 than convertibles, whose sales fell to just 102,000 units, said Stephanie Brinley, principal automotive analyst at IHS Markit. Yet faithful automakers still...
A girl’s heroic battle against the Taliban was also a family feud
Beyond the headlines of the major clashes between government forces and Taliban militants often lies a more complicated reality of local power rivalries, of a tug of war between mafia...
5 ways the coronavirus has changed suburban real estate
Sales agents are fielding calls at all hours of the day and night, trying to keep pace with market conditions that seemingly changed overnight. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/realestate/coronavirus-suburbs-real-estate.html
‘Total Bellas’ refuse to be knocked out by quarantine
The 36-year-old identical twins, whose full names are Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace and Brianna Monique Danielson, have been filming their sixth season somewhat frantically in advance of their late July and...