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Caribou and geese at Teshekpuk Lake in North Slope Borough, Alaska. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) The Energy 202: Public hearings on Zoom have Native Americans worried they won't be heard on oil projects By Dino Grandoni with Paulina Firozi The Trump administration is holding virtual public meetings during the coronavirus pandemic to move forward with long-standing plans to expand oil and gas development on public lands. Native American groups, many of whom lack consistent access to the Internet, are worried their voices will not be heard.  This is a big obstacle in their fight to stop projects set to take place on lands with cultural significance to them.  Tribal groups also say the government's effort to gather feedback, as required by law, on its efforts to expand drilling in both Alaska's North Slope and in northwest New Mexico has been plagued with technical issues. Since the hearings transitioned to Zoom with much of the nation on lockdown, tribal grou

For a rare public hearing under Trump, a woman traveled 800 miles to speak for just three minutes Darryl Fears Activists and politicians accused the Trump administration of trying to curtail public input as it moves to change the National Environmental Policy Act. It cost $1,000 for Patricia Qasimah Boston to fly from Tallahassee to Washington and stay in a hotel. She traveled 800 miles for a three-minute appearance at a public hearing held Tuesday by the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House agency that recently proposed to weaken the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act. Boston, an environmental justice advocate, called the law “a bible” that protects communities across the country by allowing them to challenge the environmental impact of proposed federal projects. Usually the council holds around nine hearings across the country so citizens can comment on decisions as meaningful as changing NEPA. But this time, under the Trump administration, it held two. B

Katherine Johnson: Hidden Figures Nasa mathematician dies at 101 Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101. Nasa announced her death on Twitter, saying it was celebrating her life and honouring "her legacy of excellence that broke down racial and social barriers". Ms Johnson calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for Nasa's early space missions. She was portrayed in the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures. The film tells the story of African-American women whose maths skills helped put US astronaut John Glenn into orbit around the Earth in 1962. Ms Johnson verified the calculations made by new electronic computers before his flight. How black women first started working for Nasa The women who sewed the suits for the space race New female space record for Nasa astronaut Ms Johnson had previously calculated the trajectory for the space flight of Alan Shepard - the first American in space. Such was

11-Year-Old Iranian Girl Gets the Highest Mensa IQ Score, Beating Einstein, Hawking An 11-year-old Iranian high school student in the United Kingdom is making headlines for getting a remarkable result on her Mensa IQ test that even surpasses those of great thinkers such as Albert Einstein and the late Professor Stephen Hawking. Tara Sharifi, a student at Aylesbury High School, recently took the Mensa IQ test in Oxford where she scored well above the “genius benchmark” of 140. The 11-year-old student scored 162 points on the test, which is two points ahead of Einstein, a theoretical physicist who is considered as one of the two pillars of modern physics, and famous cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking. The Mensa IQ test, which needed to be answered within a set time, focused on the student’s ability to understand the meanings of words, according to Iran Front Page. “I was shocked when I got the result – I never expected to get such a good score,” Sharifi said. With the score sh

(HUSSAIN RADWAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Uber gives its women drivers in Saudi Arabia the option to bypass men Uber has implemented a feature for its women drivers in Saudi Arabia that allows them to only give rides to other women. The decision came after Uber offered the feature to Saudi women drivers as part of a pilot program in September that proved a hit in the predominantly gender-segregated country. Following the program, 74 percent of Uber’s Saudi women drivers told the company that they didn’t want to pick up men. The ride-sharing company has thus far said that the women-only feature will remain exclusive to Saudi Arabia. After Saudi Arabia finally lifted its ban on women drivers last June, Uber and its former Middle Eastern rival Careem announced that they would be launching initiatives to train women drivers. While Uber was only able to recruit a “handful” of women drivers by last October, Careem, which has since been acquired by Uber, reported that they had managed to hire 2

In the footsteps of European countries .. Attempts to ban the purchase of sex in Germany While some of Europe's steps have taken steps towards the Sex Ban Act, Germany is still far from it. In 2002, a law was enacted regulating the practice of prostitution within the country, but this law did not provide better protection for women and girls from exploitation. Sandara Norak (a pseudonym) worked six years in brothels. When she was still a minor, at the age of 17, she met an elderly man on the Internet, making great promises of love. This was in 2008, when Norak had problems at home with her family, and then dropped out of school and moved to live with this man, who forced her to enter the world of prostitution. Norak has fallen victim to the so-called "loving boy method" - the name of this widely known fraud. The Norak man was taken to brothels where the young woman had to have sex between 400 and 500 men in four weeks, the 29-year-old said on the platform of the Wor

Amal Clooney is like the superheroes in this white dressThe dress worn by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney aroused the interest of those attending a fundraiser organized by Prince Charles for his charity. Amal Clooney, wearing a white dress and a loose outer robe, looked as if he were equipped for a supernatural task. On March 12, 2019, the American magazine InStyle reported that the star of the human rights lawyer attended a dinner at the Prince's Charity Foundation at Buckingham Palace in a dress that made her look like she would go to a formal cocktail party at 6 pm and join a date to save the world from Thanos. Eighth.The white dress was crinkled in its upper part in a way that resembled woven baskets, and silvered down to touch the ground. However, the real part that was striking in the dress of hope was the amount and outer wear she wore on one side of her body. The dress on one of her arms comes to an end. The other amount makes you feel like you're wearing a costume l