News | Environment & Health How to Grow More Food With Less Water Scientists and farmers collaborate on a quest for more efficient irrigation. By Matt Weiser , Ensia August 29, 2015 Truthout
News | How Israel Withholds Labor Rights From the West Bank’s Palestinian Workers The Israeli government is still choking the development of an independent Palestine. By Amir Paz-Fuchs , TheConversation August 29, 2015 Truthout
News | Islamic State May Be Using Chemical Weapons These attacks on multiple fronts are incredibly damaging to a region already recovering from civil wars as well as invasion by US forces. By s. e. smith , Care2 August 29, 2015 Truthout
News | The Open Pit and the Great Green Macaw in Costa Rica The story of how Costa Ricans implemented a nationwide ban against new open pit mining has turned out to be a very different story. By Lynn Holland , CouncilonHemisphericAffairs August 29, 2015 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Obama’s Heroin Strategy: Treating Addiction or Arming the Drug War? Some reformers fear the White House's new plan for treating heroin addiction as a public health issue will actually fuel the failed war on drugs. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout August 28, 2015 Truthout
News | Hundreds of Detained Children and Mothers Could Soon Be Released Roughly 1,400 mothers, fathers and children locked up awaiting their asylum hearings could soon be released. By Franco Ordoñez , McClatchyDC August 27, 2015 Truthout
News | Environment & Health The Corporations Funding the Lawyers to Fight the Clean Power Plan Lawyers from coal-dependent states, led by West Virginia, are challenging President Obama's Clean Power Plan. By Matthew Kasper , RepublicReport August 26, 2015 Truthout
News | “No Place for a Kid to Go”: A Group Home for “At-Risk” Youth Sinks Into Crisis California is trying to move away from group care altogether, having concluded it is largely a failure. By Joaquin Sapien , ProPublica August 26, 2015 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Drought Relief Bill Threatens to Drown Sacred Sites of a Northern California Tribe Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in California are bracing for one of their biggest environmental justice struggles yet. By Rucha Chitnis , Truthout August 26, 2015 Truthout
News | Thirty Miles From Selma, a Different Kind of Civil Rights Struggle Alabama's biggest waste dump inflicts misery on residents of Uniontown, whose complaints to the EPA have gone unheeded. By Kristen Lombardi , TheCenterforPublicIntegrity August 25, 2015 Truthout