Ukraine’s coal mines turn to women to solve wartime staff shortages
Pavlohrad, Ukraine Reuters After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia’s invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage. Its answer was to allow women to work underground for the first time in its history. Over a hundred took up the offer. “I took this job […]
Postcards: Solar power projects see the light on former Appalachian coal land
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a former coal field is being transformed into a solar energy hub in the US…
FILM: NEW DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLES A GRASS-ROOTS CATHOLIC “MAGISTERIUM”
MICHAEL MCKINLEY reports for Religion News Service on a new documentary film looking at how members of the Catholic Church have been engaging with the stories of ordinary people in the Appalachian Mountains in North America…