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Environment
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Toxic Gulls: Quebec’s Contaminated Bird Colony Offers Clues About Flame Retardants
Several of these flame retardants were banned a decade ago, but they're still showing up in winged creatures.
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The United States Is Founded Upon the Model of European Conquest: Dispose of the Disposable People
In order to expand, the original 13 colonies had to decimate the Native-American nations and seize their lands.
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Personalizing Our Resistance to Domestic Violence
While telling our personal stories of struggle may sometimes feel self-serving, stories of personal trauma are the key to humanizing statistics of domestic violence.
Pollution Inequality and Income Inequality
Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by pollution across the United States, according to a new study by economist James K. Boyce.
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On World Day of Food, Struggling for Land in Brazil
Food sovereignty is the concept that every people has the right to make decisions about, produce, and consume its own local, healthy, culturally appropriate food.
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No Tar Sands, No Offshore Drilling, No Hydraulic Fracturing and Definitely No More Coal
Every progressive should be in favor of eliminating the use of fossil fuels.
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Marine Litter: Plunging Deep, Spreading Wide
Wastes released from dump-sites near the coast or river banks, the littering of beaches, tourism and recreational use of the coasts, fishing industry activities, ship-breaking yards, legal and illegal …
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Pesticide Use by Farmers Linked to High Rates of Depression, Suicides
Some research suggests that the chemicals that farmers and their workers spread on fields may alter certain brain chemicals.
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A Trip to Kuwait (on the Prairie): Life Inside the Boom
This summer, driven partially by North Dakota's boom, the United States surpassed Saudi Arabia in total oil and gas production.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pollution Inequality Worse Than Income Inequality in the US, and More
In today's On the News segment: Most of us know how bad income inequality has become in the United States, but pollution inequality is even worse, and more.