War on Wildfire
Rethinking our century-old fire management practices.
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Borderlands Cat
Jaguars once thrived in the US Southwest. Some conservationists want to see that happen again.
By Richard Mahler
Life Beyond Coal
Can the tiny Australian town of Morwell, which is located right next to a dirty coal power plant, reinvent itself?
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7 Popular Foods That Might Disappear Because of Climate Change
Search is on for ancient or near-extinct crops that might be better suited for this new reality
Throughout history, different types of food have surged and dropped in popularity, and some foods that existed at one point just aren’t around anymore. But we’re not talking about foods that aren’t popular, quite the opposite in fact. Some of our favorite…
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Pesticide Manufacturers’ Own Tests Reveal Serious Harm to Honeybees
Bayer and Syngenta criticized for secrecy after unpublished research linked high doses of their products to damage to bee colonies
Unpublished field trials by pesticide manufacturers show their products cause serious harm to honeybees at high levels, leading to calls from senior scientists for the companies to end the secrecy which cloaks much of their research. The research, conducted by Syngenta and…
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It Takes a Village
In Fiji, saving coral reefs is a community affair
When coral ecologist Victor Bonito dove into the warm waters just off Fiji’s Coral Coast on a Thursday morning in early February, he noticed some bleaching on a previously healthy patch of reef, but didn’t think much of it. The next day,…
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Chromium-6: ‘Erin Brockovich’ Chemical Threatens Two-Thirds of Americans
New report finds 200 million people exposed to toxic drinking water
In the 2000 biographical film about a legal clerk who brings a major utility company to its knees for poisoning residents of Hinkley, California, Erin Brockovich ended on a Hollywood high note with a $333m settlement from PG&E. But chromium-6 contamination of…
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Another Port Proposal For San Francisco Bay Sparks Opposition
Docs Show Vallejo City Council Members met in Secret to Craft Port, Cement Plant Plan
When Nathan Stout moved to Vallejo, by the San Francisco Bay, he wanted to get involved in the community. So he joined the citizens’ commission the city had formed to work on a new general plan. He was inspired by the project’s…
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A Gripping Chronicle of Amazonian Tribes’ Struggle Against the Peruvian State
In Review: When Two Worlds Collide (Documentary)
As members of the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes confront the Dakota Access pipeline, don’t miss Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel’s hard-hitting film about a more violent resistance by Indigenous people south of the border against would-be developers and exploiters. Photo…
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‘A Historic Change’: California First State to Pass Overtime Pay for Farmworkers
State’s 800,000 farmworkers will be eligible for time-and-a-half pay after 40 hours of work a week phased in over four years
Farmworkers in California are celebrating this week after governor Jerry Brown signed a new law on Monday entitling them to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers in the state. Photo by Bob NIchols/USDAMigrant workers harvest corn on Uesugi Farms…
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