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Rugby World Cup Highlights Climate Injustice
The Rugby World Cup starts Friday in Japan where Pacific Island teams from Samoa, Fiji and Tonga will face off against teams from industrialized nations. However, a new report from a UK-based NGO says...
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Conservation Group to Buy World’s Largest Privately Held Sequoia Forest for $15M
A Bay Area conservation group struck a deal to buy and to protect the world's largest remaining privately owned sequoia forest for $15.6 million. Now it needs to raise the money, according to CNN.The...
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Climate Crisis Caused High Healthcare Costs in 2012
Extreme weather events supercharged by climate change in 2012 led to nearly 1,000 more deaths, more than 20,000 additional hospitalizations, and cost the U.S. healthcare system $10 billion, a new...
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'We Shouldn't Be Used to This’: Houston Swamped by Second Major Flood Event...
Two have died and at least 1,000 had to be rescued as Tropical Storm Imelda brought extreme flooding to the Houston area Thursday, only two years after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, the...
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General Mills Recalls 600,000 Pounds of Flour Due to E. Coli Contamination Risk
Food manufacturer General Mills issued a voluntary recall of more than 600,000 pounds, or about 120,000 bags, of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour this week after a sample tested positive for a...
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Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
By C.J. PolychroniouClimate change is by far the most serious crisis facing the world today. At stake is the future of civilization as we know it. Yet, both public awareness and government action lag...
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Why Greenpeace Activists Dangled From a Bridge in Texas — and Face 2 Years in...
By Naveena SadasivamIt was early in the morning last Thursday, and Jonathan Butler was standing on the Fred Hartman Bridge, helping 11 fellow Greenpeace activists rappel down and suspend themselves...
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Songs for the End of the World: Pop Music and Climate Change
By Emer McHughPopular music has, and always will be, informed by the political and social contexts from which it emerges. The struggles of the American civil rights movement, white supremacy, and...
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4 Climate Activists Explain Why the Climate-Justice Movement Needs Feminism
By Mara DolanWe see the effects of the climate crisis all around us in hurricanes, droughts, wildfires, and rising sea levels, but our proximity to these things, and how deeply our lives are changed...
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Water Protectors Are Prepared for Battle. Join Us.
By Winona LaDukeFor the past seven years, the Anishinaabe people have been facing the largest tar sands pipeline project in North America. We still are. In these dying moments of the fossil fuel...
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Amazon Unveils Its Climate Crisis Plan
The day before over 1,500 Amazon.com employees planned a walkout to participate in today's global climate strike, CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a sweeping plan for the retail and media giant to be carbon...
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Birds Populations Are Rapidly Declining in North America
Bird watching in the U.S. may be a lot harder than it once was, since bird populations are dropping off in droves, according to a new study.The researchers found that since 1970, North America bird...
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I’m a Psychotherapist – Here’s What I’ve Learned From Listening to Children...
By Caroline HickmanEco-anxiety is likely to affect more and more people as the climate destabilizes. Already, studies have found that 45 percent of children suffer lasting depression after surviving...
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5 Healthy Muffin Recipes to Replace Your Old Favorites
By Lauren Panoff, MPH, RDMuffins are a popular, sweet treat.Though many people find them delicious, they're often full of added sugar and other unhealthy ingredients.Plus, due to dietary restrictions,...
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Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago’s Campaign to Put Electricity Under Public Control
By Alex SchwartzAmong the many vendors at the Logan Square Farmers Market on Aug. 18 sat three young people peddling neither organic vegetables, gourmet cheese nor handmade crafts. Instead, they...
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What's the Difference Between Global Warming and Climate Change?
By Mark ManciniOn Aug. 18, Iceland held a funeral for the first glacier lost to climate change. The deceased party was Okjökull, a historic body of ice that covered 14.6 square miles (38 square...
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The 8 Healthiest Berries You Can Eat
By Ruairi Robertson, PhDBerries are small, soft, round fruit of various colors — mainly blue, red, or purple.They are sweet or sour in taste and often used in preserves, jams, and desserts.Berries...
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Has Climate Consciousness Reached a Tipping Point?
By Jeff TurrentineNearly 20 years have passed since the journalist Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term tipping point, in his best-selling book of the same name. The phrase denotes the moment that a...
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A 16-Week Vegan Diet Can Do Wonders for Your Gut Microbiome
By Dan Gray Research shows that 16 weeks of a vegan diet can boost the gut microbiome, helping with weight loss and overall health. A healthy microbiome is a diverse microbiome. A plant-based diet is...
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What to Expect From Today’s UN Climate Action Summit
Today is the United Nations Climate Action Summit, a gathering called by UN Secretary General António Guterres to encourage climate action ahead of 2020, the year when countries are due to up their...
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