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Strengthening the food chain: Farmers and workers unite, find power in numbers
The Farm Labor Reality Tour showed how a system that pits farmers and workers against each other can also unite them to work for common goals.
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Living with fire: Survival and stubbornness in California wildfire country
Susie Cagle’s family’s house burned to the ground in a 1977 wildfire. They rebuilt. She’s still trying to understand why.
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Bike culture: Not as white as you think
A new report spotlights a decade of rapid growth in biking among communities of color. Now it's time for infrastructure to catch up.
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New York is just going to print new infrastructure
It will only save, oh, about $3 billion.
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Secretary Jewell: Keep Our Coal in the Ground
Protesters called on Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to “Keep Our Coal in the Ground” as the Department of Interior held a lease sale for 21.3 million tons of coal at the Colorado Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field office today. While the BLM called this a “competitive” coal lease, as usual only one company, Blue […]
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Tiny, adorable “dwarf” foxes rescued from extinction
Island foxes managed to make “one of the fastest recoveries of any endangered species ever," Treehugger says. Here's how they did it.
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Bike til it hertz: College kids spin out campus electricity
Middlebury College students have turned their stationary bikes into miniature power plants. A spin on one of these rides will teach you not to take electricity for granted.
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Where greenhouse gases come from, in one graph
Check out this cool graphic that shows where climate pollution comes from, by source and sector.
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“Birthing with dolphins” is hopefully not the newest parenting craze
This couple plans to let dophins assist in their birthing process, and then probably immediately eat the baby. Don't trust dolphins.
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Coal is rebounding, natural gas prices are up, and the world’s oil cartel is quite content
Times are good for the merchants of fossil fuels, with coal and natural gas prices on the rise and OPEC crowing about high demand for oil.
