About
Bearing Witness in the Heartland is a journal-style news blog dedicated to recording the more important news events and changes occurring within our country and to our planet – some hopeful but many fretful – as seen from a rural community outside of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Chronicles
Here under the Bearing Witness Heartland Chronicles we watch and record history as it is happening in front of us, as well as how the future of our country and planet is being manifested, intentionally or not, by our actions and inactions. As has…
Observatory
The Bearing Witness Heartland Observatory blog pages share my modest attempt of trying to make sense of all that is being witnessed, as well as to seek out and explore those topics and trends which are hidden or yet to fully emerge. I am…
Bearing Witness to Climate Change December 2022
This month’s Bearing Witness to Climate Change provides a summary of news from around the world during December 2022 about the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. The Global Carbon Project predicts that emissions from fossil fuels in 2022 will…
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic December 2022
Approaching three years into the pandemic, some 300-400 Americans are still dying each and every day across the country from COVID-related illnesses. More than 25,000 are hospitalized. This year’s death toll has exceeded 200,000 with a total death count of nearly 1.1 million. The…
Bearing Witness to Climate Change November 2022
This month’s Bearing Witness to Climate Change provides a summary of news from November 2022 related to the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. World leaders met this month in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th meeting of the Conference…
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