IRAN AND RUSSIA RISKING THEIR ...

Sep 16, 2015 by

IRAN AND RUSSIA RISKING THEIR OWN VIETNAM IN SYRIA?

[Translate] There are growing reports that Iranian troops, not just advisers, have joined Hezbollah in defending the Assad...

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Scientists Have Found a Link B...

Sep 16, 2015 by

Scientists Have Found a Link Between Amazon Wildfires and North Atlantic Hurricanes

[Translate] Environment A new study has uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the...

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PRESIDENT OBAMA DROPS THE R...

Sep 16, 2015 by

[Translate] by Dartagnan DAILY KOS If there’s one thing that is sure to send Republicans into an apoplectic, screaming rage,...

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IT’S TIME TO BREAK WITH ...

Sep 15, 2015 by

IT’S TIME TO BREAK WITH SAUDI ARABIA’S ‘KINGDOM OF HORRORS’

[Translate]   By Stanley Heller   TRUTHDIG Boys play amid the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa,...

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SOUTHERN OCEAN STARTS TO SOAK ...

Sep 15, 2015 by

SOUTHERN OCEAN STARTS TO SOAK UP CARBON AGAIN

[Translate]   By Tim Radford, Climate News Network  VIA TRUTHDIG     A research vessel plows through the waves of the Southern...

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CREATING COMMUNITIES

Sep 14, 2015 by

CREATING COMMUNITIES

[Translate] Metropolis Magazine In America, nineteen million low-income families are “housing insecure.” Housing specialist Katie...

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“ARCHITECTURE IS LOSING ...

Sep 14, 2015 by

“ARCHITECTURE IS LOSING ITS CAPACITY TO INSPIRE PEOPLE”

[Translate] METROPOLIS MAGAZINE Chicago-based architects Design With Company on why buildings should reframe and celebrate the...

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THIS MAP SHOWS WHO OWES THE MO...

Sep 14, 2015 by

THIS MAP SHOWS WHO OWES THE MOST FOR BURNING ALL THAT COAL

[Translate] TAKE PART DAILY A new study bills each American $12,000 for greenhouse gas emissions. Jakarta, Indonesia. (Photo: Bay...

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SMARTER FOREST AND LAND-USE PO...

Sep 14, 2015 by

SMARTER FOREST AND LAND-USE POLICY COULD HELP MAKE PARIS CLIMATE DEAL A SUCCESS

[Translate] By Ben Adler GRIST As the world gears up for the U.N. climate negotiations in Paris this December, almost all of the talk...

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HOW THE GEOGRAPHY OF U.S. POVE...

Sep 14, 2015 by

HOW THE GEOGRAPHY OF U.S. POVERTY HAS SHIFTED SINCE 1960

[Translate] By Jens Manuel Krogstad PEW FACT TANK Since President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty 50 years ago, the...

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IS IT TIME TO PUT SCIENTISTS I...

Sep 14, 2015 by

IS IT TIME TO PUT SCIENTISTS IN THE WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM

[Translate] Jeremy Deaton Karen McCormick NEXUS MEDIA Photo: NASA We tend to think of science and politics as existing in two...

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A THIRD AMERICAN CITY IS NOW R...

Sep 14, 2015 by

A THIRD AMERICAN CITY IS NOW RUNNING ENTIRELY ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

[Translate] by Scott Keyes CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Wikimedia Commons   The number of American cities that run entirely on renewable...

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THE MORAL CHALLENGE BERNIE SAN...

Sep 14, 2015 by

[Translate] Isaiah J. Poole   AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday went to a pillar...

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EFFICIENCY DRIVE CAN CUT A QUA...

Sep 12, 2015 by

EFFICIENCY DRIVE CAN CUT A QUARTER OFF ENERGY DEMAND

[Translate] TRUTHDIG Climate News Network     Switching from open fires to modern cooking stoves in India would vastly increase...

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MARTHA’S VINEYARD HOME A...

Sep 12, 2015 by

MARTHA’S VINEYARD HOME AS MOVABLE CONCRETE BLOCKS

[Translate] DESIGNBOOM sep 05, 2015 peter rose constructs martha’s vineyard property as movable concrete blocks photography by chuck...

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THE BEES HAVE THEIR DAY IN COU...

Sep 12, 2015 by

THE BEES HAVE THEIR DAY IN COURT — AND WIN BIG

[Translate]   A federal appeals court overturns the government’s approval of a powerful new pesticide linked to pollinator...

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THE GREAT ARCTIC THAW COULD UN...

Sep 12, 2015 by

THE GREAT ARCTIC THAW COULD UNLEASH GIANT VIRUSES

[Translate] Scientists have found pathogens in permafrost that remain infectious after 30,000 years. (Photo: Reuters Staff/Reuters)...

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The Amazon tribe protecting th...

Sep 11, 2015 by

The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps

[Translate]   Ka’apor Indians set fire to illegally cut logs found near the indigenous territory. Photograph: Lunae...

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IN QUEST FOR HOME, MAN CHOOSES...

Sep 11, 2015 by

IN QUEST FOR HOME, MAN CHOOSES TO BUILD RATHER THAN BORROW

[Translate] David Friedlander  LIFE EDITED Architecture If you didn’t know it already, the modern home-ownership model is pretty...

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A VERY BRIGHT IDEA IN PORTABLE...

Sep 11, 2015 by

A VERY BRIGHT IDEA IN PORTABLE LIGHTING

[Translate]    LIFE EDITED A couple years ago, we featured a prototype lighting system made by Voltaic Systems that was installed in...

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THOUSANDS FORCED TO FLEE THEIR...

Sep 11, 2015 by

THOUSANDS FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOMES AFTER JAPAN EXPERIENCES ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ RAINFALL

[Translate] by Katie Valentine CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi Electric poles tilt damaged after floods hit Joso,...

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IN RADICAL SHIFT, GOP LEADERS ...

Sep 11, 2015 by

IN RADICAL SHIFT, GOP LEADERS ACTIVELY EMBRACE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE

[Translate] CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at a Kentucky coal transport facility the final week before the...

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FEDS CANCEL STUDY OF CANCER RI...

Sep 11, 2015 by

[Translate]   By Sue Sturgis, Facing South | Report This week the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it was canceling a National...

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EL NINO – WHAT IT WILL B...

Sep 11, 2015 by

EL NINO – WHAT IT WILL BRING THIS YEAR AND HOW IT COULD CHANGE WITH GLOBAL WARMING

[Translate]   By Catherine Gautier, The Conversation | News Analysis A storm over Santa Monica Bay, July 5, 2013. (Photo: Mathias...

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GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL: PUNISHING...

Sep 11, 2015 by

GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL: PUNISHING THE HOMELESS FOR BEING HOMELESS

[Translate]   By Bill Boyarsky   TRUTHDIG Bill Boyarsky This is the second installment in a three-part series that Truthdig...

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CHINA PLANS TO LAND A PROBE ON...

Sep 11, 2015 by

CHINA PLANS TO LAND A PROBE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON BY 2020

[Translate]  Written By Kif Leswing  FUTURISM 2 days ago moon In Brief During a Chinese state broadcast, a member of the Chinese...

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‘THIS IS THE END’:...

Sep 10, 2015 by

‘THIS IS THE END’: LEFTWING PACIFICA RADIO AFFILIATES ENTER PROTRACTED DEATH SPIRAL

[Translate] ‘ Veteran broadcasters accuse the board of promoting bizarre conspiracy theories as network puts pressure on staff...

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ROBERT REICH: AMERICANS OBSESS...

Sep 10, 2015 by

ROBERT REICH: AMERICANS OBSESS OVER THE SEX LIVES OF STRANGERS WHILE CEO’S ROB THE COUNTRY BLIND

[Translate] Economy Forget private morality–we have a crisis of public morality. By Robert Reich / Robert Reich’s Blog At...

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CLEAN ENERGY PLANS MAY INCREAS...

Sep 10, 2015 by

CLEAN ENERGY PLANS MAY INCREASE TOXINS IN PLANKTON

[Translate]   By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network  VIA TRUTHDIG     Harnessing the power of Muskrat Falls to produce...

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HURRICANE KATRINA, THE POLITIC...

Sep 10, 2015 by

HURRICANE KATRINA, THE POLITICS OF DISPOSABILITY, AND THE INSENSITIVITY OF MALCOLM GLADWELL

[Translate] TRUTHDIG   By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch     Malcolm Gladwell. (Surian Soosay / CC BY 2.0) This piece first...

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