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Enlarging US National Parks, Worms Save the Earth, Paid Leave for Domestic Abuse Victims

18.02.2019

by Roxana Adam

#Agriculture, #Conservation, #National Parks, #US

Photo: Pedro Szekely / Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

In a uniquely bipartisan effort, the US Senate passes a bill to enlarge existing national parks and open new ones throughout California, Utah, Montana, and Oregon, a woman is raising tiger worms to help replenish the Earth’s diminishing soil, and the Scottish Council offers paid leave for survivors of domestic violence.