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Climate Change 2013: Where We Are Now – Not What You Think
To prevent increasingly dangerous climate change, says Bruce Melton, the public and our leaders must be convinced to act decisively and robustly because, as his review of the latest …
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Ninety-Nine Years Ago: A Pause in the War on Christmas
Frank Richards remembers how Officers of both sides of a war came to an understanding that the unofficial truce during trench warfare on Christmas.
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Mystery Oil Spill Turns Miles of Trinidad’s Beaches Black
A mysterious oil spill in south Trinidad is wreaking havoc on homes and wildlife in the area.
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“1913 Massacre” Film Takes a Trip Back to Calumet a Century After a Christmas Eve Tragedy
Producers of the new documentary, ‘1913 Massacre,’ Louis Galdieri and Ken Ross, talk about their movie and the tragic deaths of 74 at a union Christmas Eve party sponsored …
Private Federal Contractors Cost Taxpayers Twice as Much as Civil Servants
Journalist and author David Cay Johnston says that private federal contractors need better oversight and should be banned from contributing to election campaigns.
Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster
Nuclear expert and researcher Joseph Mangano explains his research in connecting the increase of hyperthyroidism in newborns on the West coast to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Indigenous Groups Win Right to Seize Chevron’s Canadian Assets over $18 Billion in Amazon Pollution
A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court …
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Meet the Texas Farmer Challenging the Keystone Pipeline From the Courtroom to the Plains
Julia Trigg-Crawford claims that the state of Texas has no process to determine whether projects that seize landowners' property are really in the public benefit.
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Today’s Forecast Is for Climate-Proof Farming
Even as weather extremes bedevil Caribbean farmers, Ramgopaul Roop has turned his three-acre fruit farm into a showcase for how to beat climate change.