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Climate Crisis
Older Coral Species Are Hardier Than Newer Ones
Today diseases have increased and are killing more corals.
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Loon, Interrupted: Chicks Dying, Social Chaos; Is Their Comeback Unraveling?
Often referred to as the “spirit of the North,” the common loon has long been a cultural icon across the Northern United States and Canada.
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Heavy Metal Songs: Contaminated Songbirds Sing the Wrong Tunes
After extensive research in Virginia, scientists have shown that mercury alters the very thing that many birds are known for - their songs.
Environmentalists, Civil Society Must Unite, Adopt Stronger Tactics to Fight Climate Change
People who strongly believe that the earth is in the initial stages of a downward spiral cannot allow conditions to return to the norm of the past.
Truthout Interviews Featuring James Kilgore on Reversing Mass Incarceration in the US
Ted Asregadoo talks to author and research scholar at the University of Illinois' Center for African Studies James Kilgore.
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Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice
In Latin America, a large portion of the region's rural people still live on less than two dollars a day.
Since Hiroshima: Australia’s Active Involvement in the Use and Abuse of Nuclear Energy
Australia has been involved in nuclear power politics since the 1940s as both a weapons test site and a source of base fuel uranium.
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Feeling the Touch of the Goad: A Sense of Urgency as a Spur to Climate Action
To respond effectively to the threat of climate change, we must shed our complacency and arouse a sense of urgency. The texts of early Buddhism provide us with a …
Confronting White Privilege in the Climate Justice Movement
This interview is part of Acronym TV's expanded coverage of the NYC Global Climate Convergence.
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Carbon Capture and Clean Coal: Obama’s Multibillion-Dollar Climate Pipedream
Trapping carbon dioxide from burning coal and using it to extract more fossil fuels is a counterintuitive approach to addressing climate change.