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Environment
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Young Climate Marchers: Support From Boomers Makes Us Feel Less Alone
When more than 300,000 people filled the streets of New York City for the People's Climate March on September 21, one thing became clear: This is an issue that …
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Scrambling Birds’ Brains: Could This Toxic Algae Offer Clues to Human Diseases?
A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.
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It’s Time for the US Middle Class to Make a Comeback
It's time to repudiate Reaganomics, so the American middle class can make a comeback.
A Tipping Point for the Good
In the Chesapeake Bay region, we're on the front lines of climate change.
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The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining – and the World Bank – Out of El Salvador
Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold mining firm's shakedown of one of Central America's poorest countries.
Climate Change: The Next Generation
Kelsey Juliana, an 18-year-old activist, is fighting climate change in the courts and walking across the country to spread the word on global warming.
Syrians in the Golan Heights Stuck Between Sectarian War and Unjust Occupation
Syrians in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hear the constant shelling of the civil war that divides their community while living through the decades-old Israeli occupation that dominates daily life.
Economic Update: How Capitalism Works
This episode covers why efforts against obesity fail, Cadillac's move into New York, the Atlanta Symphony lockout, subprime auto credit and bank economics.
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Tens of Thousands of Wisconsin Students Face New Voting Hurdles
Until the 7th Circuit's decision last week, out-of-state students had little reason to spend the time and money to obtain a Wisconsin ID card.
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Global Drug Report: Don’t Just Decriminalize, Demilitarize
“The drug war is a pretext for the militarization of resource rich areas in Mexico and Central America, as happened with Plan Colombia in Colombia,” said Dawn Paley, author …