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Environment
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US Fund to Fight Global Climate Change Is Less Than Annual Payout to a Single For-Profit College
The urgency of curbing the abuses of predatory for-profit colleges comes into sharper focus.
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Coal’s Hidden “Double Whammy“
Millions of hectares of forest are threatened by coal mining, warns Saskia Ozinga.
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“Jesus?“
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The Paris Agreement: 1.5°C to Stay Alive
For too long, like Nero, world leaders have been fiddling while the planet burns.
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Corporate Media Ignore Economic Justice in the 2016 Election
It's time that the media start listening to what people actually care about: The US middle class is being eaten alive by the top 1%.
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After Paris: Making the Case for a People-Powered Transition to a New Climate Culture
It's time to rethink the climate movement and devote ourselves to making our own communities sustainable.
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Like Copenhagen Talks, Paris Climate Negotiations Were Mostly Smoke and Mirrors
At the COP21 climate talks, the primary outcome was known before the heads of state even arrived in France.
Dahr Jamail | How Do the Democratic Presidential Front-Runners Stack Up on Climate Change?
The Democratic presidential primary race between front-runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is heating up. So is the planet.
Child Care’s Broken Promise: Parents Want Solutions
Families want child care that reflects what it means to be working, poor and raising children in the US.
Twelve Days That Cooked the World: Combating the Climate Counterrevolution in Paris
UN climate negotiators' failure to mandate adequate emissions reductions provides the moral justification for radical local action.