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Winnemem Wintu War Dancers: Shasta Dam a “Weapon of Mass Destruction“
The Winnemem Wintu Tribe over the past 10 years has played a key leadership role in the campaign to oppose the peripheral tunnels and the water bond.
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A Capitalist in North Korea
Meet the Swiss businessman who started a business school in communist Pyongyang.
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Fund Cancer Research to Keep Breakthroughs Coming
If Americans do not want decades of medical progression to reverse, they must urge Congress to change course quickly.
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Africa’s Dividing Farmlands a Threat to Food Security
Experts say that Africa's extensive land subdivision is emerging as a significant threat to food security.
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Kingdom of Slaves
In the smallest Gulf kingdoms, upwards of 90 percent of residents are immigrant laborers. Many face unspeakable abuse.
Ur-ganic: An Alpine Township Considers Banning Pesticides
Residents of the township of Mals in Italy voted overwhelmingly on September 5 to ban agricultural pesticides to protect the health of residents, the surrounding ecosystem and the integrity …
Mexico: Researcher Raises Alert About Environmental Dangers of Wind Farms
Southern Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec has the largest concentration of wind farm projects in Latin America. Biologist Patricia Mora explains what environmental impact studies leave out: the negative impacts …
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How Residents of a Rural New Mexico County Fought the Fracking Barons and Won – for Now
Energy companies are seeking fracking permits in New Mexico's Mora County. But the area's traditional livelihoods, farming and ranching, rely on clean rivers and streams.
Climate in Our Hands
The destruction and exploitation that human hands have inflicted on our planet are undeniable - and there's no question that our species' actions have thrown our own future survival …
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Of Jenga Towers and Environmental Offsets
It's time we recognize that once certain essential building blocks are gone, it's game over.