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Environment & Health
Anti-Fracking Movement Alarmed at Trump’s Focus on Fossil Fuels
For the fracking industry, good times will return when Trump is sworn in.
How the Department of Energy Incentivized Executives at Hanford to Sweep a Plutonium Leak Under the Rug
This is the forth segment in a 15-part mini-series titled, "Nuclear Power in Our World."
Rick Perry’s Texas Giveaways
The soon-to-be US energy secretary doled out billions in grants and tax incentives for corporations while governor of Texas.
How Tropical Deforestation and Land-Use Change Are Driving Emerging Infectious Diseases
There are about 250 known human emerging infectious diseases.
Construction of Dangerous Coastal Jaitapur Nuclear Power Mega-Plant Should Be Stopped
The green-lighted plan, if carried out, will be the world's largest nuclear power facility.
The Takeover of US Health Care by Big Money
We are being led by politicians beholden to bigmoney serving the greed of today's medical-industrial complex.
World’s Fastest Land Animal Is Now Racing Extinction
Conservationists believe that cheetahs are even more likely to go extinct than previously thought.
Noam Chomsky: With Trump Election, We Are Now Facing Threats to the Survival of the Human Species
"We now face are the most severe that have ever arisen in human history."
How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the US to India Are Changing Global Food Production
Around the world, plant breeders are resisting corporate control of the food supply by making seeds available for other breeders to use.
Twenty Photos: My Seven Months Living at Standing Rock
The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anti-capitalist lifestyle.