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In other words, water responds to the sponginess—the thirstiness—of the atmosphere. And this summer, the atmosphere across the West had a lot of thirst. Climate scientists measure this trait using a statistic called the vapor-pressure deficit, or VPD. “In the summer, in California and across most of the West, as …

As the country waits to see if charges will be filed against the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend Kenneth Walker is struggling with the loss of the 26-year-old EMT worker. According to NBC News, attorneys for Walker reveal “he asks himself daily why he is alive and …

0 Sacramento, California, USA – February 25, 2011: Closeup image of a portion of the amazon.com homepage displayed in a Firefox browser on a computer monitor. Amazon.com started its online bookstore in July 1995. Today it is the world’s largest internet retailer. There has never been a more opportune time …

It’s New York Fashion Week; do you know where your priorities are? Chances are, given all the trauma 2020 has wrought—in addition to far more time spent at home—you may have questioned why we’re even bothering with fashion at this pivotal moment. After all, what good are frivolous pursuits when …

Pain will come, he is saying, and when it does, nobody wants to hear about it. Why should your pain be any more deserving of our attention than anybody else’s? Bear your pain, he says in one lecture, “so when your father dies you are not whining away in the …

Jonathan Majors is currently killing it in HBO’s Lovecraft Country and now he will be part of the Marvel Universe. Deadline reports he is starring in the third installment of Ant-Man, which also includes Paul Rudd. It’s not known what character he will play but it will reportedly be a …

0 (Image: iStock/martin-dm) Food and drinks businesses have been suffering as a result of the massive closures due to COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic restrictions on in-door dining. While the James Beard Foundation has chosen not to host its famous awards show for those in the food sector, they …

Photo: Pittsburgh Steelers In 2018, The Root reported on a recurring theme that we just can’t seem to escape: the fatal shooting of yet another unarmed Black person at the hands of police, but what made this particular instance so disturbing was that the victim, Antwon Rose Jr., was only …

On Sunday’s (September 13) episode of The Real Housewives of Potomac, Ashley Darby revealed that she and her husband Michael Darby came clean about an incident he really “regrets” happened. The recall of what happened stemmed from a conversation about him being spotted out at a strip club while she …

Photo: txking (Shutterstock) In Taft, Okla., a group of protesters have gathered outside a local prison currently facing an outbreak of COVID-19. KTUL-8 reports that protesters have taken to chanting “Orange Lives Matter,” outside of Eddie Warrior Correctional Center, a minimum-security women’s prison. They’re concerned with the way the prison …