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Environment
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Buyer Beware: Latest Documentary From the Tickells Promotes Natural Gas
While purporting to advocate for consumer choice, the new film “Pump” promotes alternative fuels that can only be obtained through the process of fracking.
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Are Tiny Houses a Viable Affordable Housing Solution?
Some Americans looking to shrink their carbon footprint are doing so by shrinking their homes.
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Pena Nieto on Indigenous Rights: Praise Abroad, Protest at Home
Many indigenous and peasant organizations have pointed out that Mexico's energy reform is irreconcilable with the rights of the nation's indigenous peoples and small farmers.
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The Media’s New Climate Denial
When journalists cover fracking, they often fail to mention its contribution to global warming.
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What’s Really Going On in Hong Kong?
The discontent is rooted in the massive social inequality in Hong Kong - one of the world's major financial centers - and the growing lack of opportunity for its …
Older Coral Species Are Hardier Than Newer Ones
Today diseases have increased and are killing more corals.
Farmers, Indigenous Peoples and NGOs Take to Streets in Ten Cities Demanding an End to World Bank’s Morally Bankrupt Development
Groups will stage “creative resistance” outside of bank's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. - and around the world - on October 10th and 11th.
The Fight Against “Ecological Amnesia” After the People’s Climate March
What does climate action look like?
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Mobilizing for Racial Justice in the Face of Tragedy
Sadly, deaths like John Crawford's have become all too common.
The Tyrant Jean-Claude Duvalier Is Dead, but His Legacy Still Lives in UN-Occupied Haiti
Jean-Claude Duvalier's death will not change the realities of foreign occupation and meddling in Haiti that continue to bolster much of the authoritarian Duvalier legacy.