STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York state Department of Civil Service (DCS) has released its December application schedule for New York’s entry-level civil service exams, and some jobs pay better than others. The open-competitive exams are an opportunity to start a career in New York state. These tests are open to anyone who meets…

Dar es Salaam. The founder of Swahili Fashion Week (SFW) and a renowned fashion designer, Mustafa Hassanali, has urged youth to endeavour to preserve the environment by keeping their old clothes. This was said during the launch of the 16th edition of SFW. Speaking during the launch held at the Bravo Coco Beach Hotel in…

Investment from Ballmer Group, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Builders Vision, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, Oak Foundation, Oceankind, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Rivian Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Vere Initiatives, and others will advance ocean-climate and marine-based initiatives. Dubai, UAE – Today, at…

Dr George Jacob, President & CEO of Bay Ecotarium on climate conservation Image Credit: Supplied Dubai: Grammy winners will come together for a climate concert during UN COP28 in Dubai. The climate concert titled “Resonance” is being hosted by San Francisco based Bay Ecotarium — California’s largest watershed conservation group. The climate concert in sync…

Today’s internet would not be possible without Virginia. It’s time the state studied what that fact means for its citizens’ health, its environment and its energy future, and pass legislation accordingly.   That was the thesis of several environmental and land-use organizations that gathered in Lake Ridge, Virginia, on Friday for a press conference to announce…

Even from a distance, a sea change was evident Wednesday as a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation boat left a ramp at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park and motored toward a red plume fanning out in Oyster Bay Harbor. That change began a short time earlier at nearby Oyster Bay Sewage Treatment Plant, where environmentalists pumped a brightly…

A stand of aspen trees, left, was growing near a cabin on the 910 Cattle Ranch on Oct. 6. The trees were accidentally cut down by an inmate work crew hired by Summit County a few weeks later prompting outrage for Leslie Miller, the personal partner of the property owner.Park Record file photo by David…