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TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Suffered Major Corrosion Only Two Years in Operation
The cause of the corrosion is being kept from the public by federal regulators and TransCanada.
Fighting for Our Oceans
From Haiti to Scotland, Goldman Environmental Prize winners tackle marine management challenges.
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Cut Pesticide Use to Boost Yields? It’s Worked for Millions of Farmers in Asia and Africa
New research shows that sustainable approaches to agriculture can both increase yields and improve the environment.
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Want to Help Nepal Recover From the Quake? Cancel Its Debt
Nepal owes $3.8 billion in debt to foreign lenders and spent $217 million repaying debt in 2013.
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States Are Required to Educate Students Behind Bars, but Here’s What Really Happens
Since age 12, Cadeem Gibbs has struggled to reconcile his desire to learn with his incarceration.
Five Foods We Thought Were Bad for Us, Now Turn Out to Be Good
And four other foods we are still debating.
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Is Russia Headed Towards Nuclear Disarmament?
There is evidence that Russia has been steadily reducing their number of nuclear weapons and complying with the NPT.
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Rapid Rise in Super PACs Dominated by Single Donors
Super PACS that get nearly all of their money from one donor quadrupled their share of overall fund-raising in 2014.
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Making More Enemies Than We Kill? Calculating US Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia and Weighing Their Implications
Is there any correlation between bomb tonnage and political blowback?
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Guatemalan Campesinos Embrace Ancestral Farming Practices to Prevent Migration
There is a crisis facing campesinos in rural Guatemala.