THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD WILL LO...

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THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER CLIMATE CHANGE

[Translate] Humans are destroying the world as we know it…and creating a new one. —By Lizzie Wade  MOTHER JONES Canon.P/Shutterstock...

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ON THE NEWS WITH THOM HARTMANN...

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[Translate] TRUTHOUT.ORG Wednesday, 09 September 2015 00:00 By Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program | Video Report In...

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RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES: WHICH ...

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RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES: WHICH ARE THE MOST ECO-FRIENDLY?

[Translate] Shutterstock By Ask Umbra GRIST Q. I recently moved to a remote area where electricity delivery is sometimes unreliable,...

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CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DESTROY TH...

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CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DESTROY THE PLANET’S CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

[Translate] Shutterstock Spoiler Alert By Clayton Aldern GRIST We can’t have the birds or the bees. We can’t have woolly mammoths....

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WHY INVASIVE SPECIES WILL SAVE...

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WHY INVASIVE SPECIES WILL SAVE NATURE

[Translate] THE DIRT   by Liz Camuti Conservationists are becoming enemies of nature, according to a new book The New Wild: Why...

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MANTRA FOR 9/11: 14 YEARS LATE...

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MANTRA FOR 9/11: 14 YEARS LATER, AN IMPROBABLE WORLD

[Translate] 5 By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Fourteen years later and do you even believe...

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WORLD MUST AVERT DEVASTATING F...

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WORLD MUST AVERT DEVASTATING FLOOD OF CLIMATE REFUGEES

[Translate]   By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network     An aerial view of Bangladesh shows the impact of flooding on arable land....

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BOAT CRASH CAUSES 120,000 GALL...

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BOAT CRASH CAUSES 120,000 GALLONS OF OIL TO SPILL INTO THE MISSISSIPI RIVER

[Translate] by Katie Valentine CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee Damage on a barge is seen as it is moored along...

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WORRIED ABOUT REFUGEES? JUST W...

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WORRIED ABOUT REFUGEES? JUST WAIT UNTIL WE DUST-BOWLIFY MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA

[Translate] by Joe Romm CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Petr David Josek, AP Refugees wait in Budapest   “The Syria conflict has triggered...

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THE WORLD’S LARGEST GREE...

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THE WORLD’S LARGEST GREEN ROOF IN SILICON VALLEY

[Translate] 0 all images courtesy of the hills at vallco       uruguayan architect rafael viñoly has unveiled plans to...

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WHO SAYS AMERICA DOESN’T...

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[Translate]    Posted by Jim Hightower   In their ongoing, all-out assault to crush labor unions, corporate forces have...

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YOUR LAWN IS GIVING FROGS A SE...

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YOUR LAWN IS GIVING FROGS A SEX CHANGE

[Translate] —By Tom Philpott  MOTHER JONES Jim Shelton/Yale University To paraphrase Kermit, it’s not easy being a frog. These...

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CLIMATE DENIAL IS CORRUPTION, ...

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[Translate] Dave Johnson  AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE While the world warms, the climate deniers are out in force, trying not only to...

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PAUL KRUGMAN FOR FED CHAIRMAN!...

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PAUL KRUGMAN FOR FED CHAIRMAN! HERE’S HOW WE TOPPLE THE 1 PERCENT

[Translate] We can have both economic growth and economic fairness. But that would require very different leadership at the Fed Paul...

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“GOD IS THE WATER”...

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[Translate]   By Katherine Freeman, The Feminist Wire | Op-Ed I gaze with profound horror upon pictures of the San Juan and Animas...

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THE SILENT CRISIS OF AGING

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THE SILENT CRISIS OF AGING

[Translate]   By Cody Fenwick, Care2 | Op-Ed (Photo: Elderly Woman via Shutterstock) Our society is plagued by a crisis of aging that...

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HISTORY, VEGETATION, HAPPINESS...

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HISTORY, VEGETATION, HAPPINESS … YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHAT MAKES A CITY ATTRACTIVE

[Translate] THE GUARDIAN Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but is it all cities need to be attractive? Readers shared their...

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New Program Takes Rare Approac...

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New Program Takes Rare Approach of Treating Homeless People Like Human Beings—And It Works

[Translate] A new program moves homeless encampments into a safe, clean space with food, laundry, showers and case workers who care....

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How Jimmy Carter Revealed the ...

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How Jimmy Carter Revealed the GOP’s Dark Id Four Decades Ago

[Translate] The 39th president knew the forces unfettered campaign spending would unleash before anyone else. By Rick Perlstein / The...

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World’s Biggest Economie...

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World’s Biggest Economies Devise Plan That Spells Doom for Planet Earth

[Translate] Experts warn that the G20’s massive infrastructure plan will cause “rapid ecological deterioration.” By...

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BI-POLAR DISORDER: OBAMA’...

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BI-POLAR DISORDER: OBAMA’S BAIT-AND-SWITCH ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

[Translate]   by Paul Street  COUNTERPUNCH   We live in strange Orwellian, Islamophobic, and eco-cidal times. A comrade from the...

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FIELD NOTES TO LIFE DURING THE...

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FIELD NOTES TO LIFE DURING THE APOCALYPSE

[Translate]   by Arun Gupta  COUNTERPUNCH Shell’s Arctic drilling rig. Photo: Greenpeace. When the apocalypse arrived no one knew it...

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HOW WALL STREET PARASITES HAVE...

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[Translate] September 1, 2015 by Pam Martens  COUNTERPUNCH   The riveting writer, Michael Hudson, has read our collective minds...

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TEA PARTIES ARE ALMOST AS DUMB...

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TEA PARTIES ARE ALMOST AS DUMB ABOUT VACCINES AS THEY ARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

[Translate] Shutterstock By Katie Herzog GRIST Picture the anti-vaccer. She wears all-natural fibers and lives in San Luis Obispo....

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DID MAYAN DEFORESTATION CHANGE...

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DID MAYAN DEFORESTATION CHANGE THE CLIMATE?

[Translate] Shutterstock By Clayton Aldern   GRIST The pre-Columbian Mayans are known for many things: El Castillo at Chichen Itza,...

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WHAT AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM EU...

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WHAT AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM EUROPE’S HIGH-SPEED TRAINS

[Translate] Shutterstock By Ben Adler GRIST Riding the high-speed train between Berlin and Hamburg, Germany’s two largest cities, is...

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ONE NOVEL WAY TO BRING HEALTHC...

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ONE NOVEL WAY TO BRING HEALTHCARE TO POOR NEIGHBORHOODS

[Translate] What if health services moved into places people already go? By Sasha Abramsky  THE NATION   Vicente’s will offer a...

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DESIGN A NEW HUB FOR DEAF CULT...

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DESIGN A NEW HUB FOR DEAF CULTURE

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green Gallaudet University, the only liberal arts university in the world that teaches its students in...

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SILICON VALLEY REINVENTS THE M...

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SILICON VALLEY REINVENTS THE MALL

[Translate] THE DIRT   by Jared Green As malls die off around the country, and more people shop online, new shopping center models...

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NEW ESTIMATE: EARTH HAS 3 TRIL...

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[Translate] THE DIRT  by Jared Green A new study published in the journal Nature claims that a previous satellite-based estimate of...

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