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Inequality and Climate Change: Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern in Conversation
The experts discuss the intersection of climate change and inequality.
Pipeline Coming: Anticipating Environmental Devastation in New Hampshire
We take pictures of the surveyors and post them on social media. Lately, they have started taking pictures of us.
World’s Forests Are Fragmenting Into Tiny Patches, Risking Mass Extinctions
The loss of forest has wrought dramatic consequences for biodiversity.
Sticks, Stones and Names That Can Hurt: Cracking Down on Dissent in Peru
Back home, not everyone is so impressed by Peru's developmental path as expressed by EU leaders.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Agricultural Runoff Is Poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, and More
Help Truthout keep publishing stories like this: They can't be found in corporate media! Make a tax-deductible donation today. In today's On the News segment: The Hague District Court …
Dahr Jamail | Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event Begins; 2015 on Pace to Become Hottest Year on Record
Humans are both the cause and at risk of annihilation in the Earth's sixth mass extinction event.
How a Law That Failed to Protect Eagles Could Offer a Lesson to Save Honeybees
If neonics are a threat as science suggests, Congress won't have an excuse for waiting.
Peru’s Tia Maria Mining Conflict: Another Mega Imposition
To date, the conflict has claimed eight lives: four in 2011 and four more since April of this year.
For Families of People Living With Mental Illness, Police “Support” Is Not the Solution
We need to radically reimagine what safety looks like.
The Disparate Impact of Climate Change
The pope's new encyclical illuminates a concept we should all get to know better: disparate impact.