Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says
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Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. The European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. That’s barely below the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit…

217 Today: He used education to escape a violent childhood. Today, he wants to help kids in similar

217 Today: He used education to escape a violent childhood. Today, he wants to help kids in similar

Tuesday, January 9, 2023 Today’s headlines:  Planned Parenthood of Illinois’ Carbondale Health Center has been up and running for two weeks now… and staff there say they’ve already seen several out-of-state patients. There is hardly any ice on Lake Michigan — with less than a fraction of one percent currently covering the lake. Researchers at…

He used education to escape a violent childhood. Today, he wants to help kids in similar situations
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He used education to escape a violent childhood. Today, he wants to help kids in similar situations

This story includes details of violence some may find disturbing. Shamar Betts can still recall in vivid detail the moment he discovered the dead body of his friend Corsean. It was 2014. Betts was 13 years old at the time.  They were hanging out near their middle school on the South Side of Chicago when…