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A statewide initiative pairs climate-focused coursework with community service – and is spreading to other states As a student at a high school not far from Denver’s main airport, Anthony Muñoz wondered whether the jet fuel from airplanes flying above his campus was harming living things. An avid gardener, Muñoz partnered with a local university to create a garden on the campus of his charter school, Vista Academy, filling it with native plants that could detect ground-level ozone pollution. He also worked with climate scientists from the National…

A recent arrest suggests that underground invaders of city’s sewer system are lured by the promise of lost valuables There’s been one thing in particular that has been intriguing New Yorkers this summer: the existence, and whereabouts, of so-called “ mole people ” – a mysterious group of individuals who spend at least some of their time wading about in the city’s sewers. New Yorkers learned a bit more about the phenomenon this week, when two men were caught red – or perhaps another color – handed, after allegedly emerging from a tunnel in Manhattan.…