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How Solar Became the World’s Best Hope for a Post-Fossil-Fuel Energy System
Today solar is widely considered to be the best and most affordable hope for decarbonising the world's energy system.
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Disgusting Effects of Prison Overcrowding: Sewage Backflow in My Cell
California prisons' response to the water shortage? Not less crowding but less access to sanitation facilities.
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The Sanctuary Movement and Women’s Rights: Sister Struggles
These two movements should be explicitly joined: The push for women's rights must also be a push for sanctuary.
Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
If passed, Measure 6-162 would block what could become Oregon's top greenhouse gas emitter.
“We Can Save Life on Earth”: Study Reveals How to Stop Mass Extinction
A global biodiversity analysis shows which areas are most in need of conservation.
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Monuments to White Supremacy Are Finally Falling in New Orleans
Removing statues of white supremacists is more than a symbolic gesture in this majority-Black city.
Brazil Moves to Cut Amazon Conservation Units by 1.2 Million Hectares
Brazil seeks drastic reduction in Amazon conservation to allow private land ownership, agriculture, and logging on protected land.
In French Elections, None of Three Main Candidates Would Advance Real Climate Progress
The birthplace of the Paris Climate Agreements, the first round of France's presidential election on starts on Sunday, April 23.
It’s Time to Legalize Marijuana and Abolish the Drug Czar
The war on drugs will not end until the institutions behind it are dismantled.
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Leaked Documents Reveal Trump Administration Prepping to Ramp up Drilling, Mining, Grazing on Public Land
More leaked documents reveal Trump's administration prepping to ramp up drilling, mining, grazing on public lands.