Environment
Farmworkers say new Oregon pesticide standards only benefit growers
July 20, 2018Ramon Ramirez, a farmworker leader in Oregon, says “the rule changes favor the growers rather than the people who pick the crops."
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Trump and the big, bad bugs that could kill millions
July 17, 2018Bad policies and bad pathogens go hand in hand.
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A tribute to cabbage and its harvesters
July 5, 2018However we eat it cabbage, and for whatever reason, it all comes out of this field and others like it.
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Court orders pipeline to halt construction over West Virginia streams, wetlands
June 27, 2018"Putting the breaks on this is the only just outcome for communities directly impacted by this destructive project."
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Koko the gorilla, 46: An ‘icon for interspecies communication, empathy’
June 22, 2018"Koko's capacity for language and empathy has opened the minds and hearts of millions."
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