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Will 2013 bring more rights for farmworkers?
Obama has named immigration reform a top priority in his next term. But big farmers and farmworkers have very different ideas about how that reform should look.
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Markese Bryant: From the mean streets to the green economy
When he was 20, Bryant was arrested for selling crack cocaine. Today, he's fighting to give African American youth opportunities that he never had.
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Walmart bribed its way around Mexico’s environmental rules
Millions in illegal payments paved the way for new Walmart stores in environmentally fragile and congested areas south of the border.
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TransCanada outmaneuvers Keystone XL pipeline blockaders
TransCanada realized that it couldn't go through the tree-sitters, so it just built around them.
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An oil spill at a bird sanctuary caps Staten Island’s terrible year
Knock on wood, anyway.
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Adorable little Michigan town has big plans for cutting carbon emissions
Go get 'em, Ann Arbor! Maybe this will finally put you on the map.
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Apparently there’s such a thing as a fish tornado, and this is what it looks like
Fish tornadoes: They're real, and they're spectacular.
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Bringing back chestnut trees could fight climate change and give us tasty treats
Fungus wiped out America's chestnut trees more than 50 years ago, but they're making a comeback.
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The U.S. could lose 34 million acres of forest by 2060
The massive decrease would result from increased development and, of course, climate change.
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Foot forward: Walkability is the key to fixing cities
Urban planner Jeff Speck's Theory of Walkability posits that cities designed for people, not cars, will be centers of growth in the 21st century. But he's not opposed to gassing up the car in the event of zombie attack.
