Environment
Road to Green New Deal is paved with unity
April 18, 2019The catalyst for environmental change, the human force that will give the Green New Deal teeth, is already here.
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Amazon workers tell company to ditch oil industry, fight climate change
April 15, 2019Amazon is getting cozy with the oil industry—and some employees aren’t happy about it.
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Climate change is a class issue
April 11, 2019“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” This is the terrifying introduction to David Wallace-Wells’s timely new book The Uninhabitable Earth. One of Wallace-Wells’s observations is that more than half of carbon emissions from burning...
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Putin outlines ambitious Arctic expansion program
April 9, 2019President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday put forward an ambitious program to secure Russia’s foothold in the Arctic.
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For some river towns, flood protection is simply too costly
April 8, 2019Most communities on America’s rivers have some sort of flood protection — usually a concrete wall or an earthen levee. But a few places such as Clarksville do not.
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