Category:Briefs
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Pages in category "Briefs"
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- 1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- 8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, But Let's Have One
- 10 Reasons Why Hydropower Isn’t a Climate Solution
- 21 Ways to Divest from the War Economy
- 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036
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- A National Asbestos-Exposure Registry of Veterans Could Combat Misdiagnosis in Mesothelioma Cases Nationwide
- A Tale of Two Nations: The North Aral Sea Rebounds While the South Aral Sea Dries Up
- A Tour of the World’s Oldest Railways Still in Operation
- Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- America Is Still Using Diquat, a Toxic Weedkiller Banned in Much of the World
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
- Around the World in Nine Festivals: How Music Unites Us Across Borders
- How One Podcast Provides a Platform for Those Putting the Planet and People Over Profit
- As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
- How Land Use Is a Tool for Solving Climate Change
- Obscene Wealth Is a Social Problem
- A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- Don’t Fall for the Fake Minimum Wage Debate
- Water Conflicts Across Africa Threaten Security, Health, and the Environment
- Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
- Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- Alternatives to Policing
- An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
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- Bees Are Sentient and May Be Self-Aware
- Between Life and Death: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Consciousness
- Big Banks Break Their Climate Promises by Propping Up Big Meat
- ‘Economic Policy’ Is a Propaganda Facade to Extract Wealth From the People
- Better Family Planning Can Improve Public Health, Inequality and the Environment
- Bluewashed: How the Beauty Industry Sold an Ocean-Friendly Illusion
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- Can We Save the World’s Largest Flowers From the Brink of Extinction?
- Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
- Canada’s ‘Liberals’ Have a Disturbing Imperial Streak
- Captive Elephants: The Harsh Reality
- Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
- Can Humanity Make a Shift to a Less Pollutive Energy System?
- Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Attainable?
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change
- Why Chickens Deserve Our Respect
- How Cities Around the World Are Adapting to Better Food Systems
- Climate Change Is Worsening Seasonal Allergies by Boosting Plant Pollen Production
- Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Community Schools Were Succeeding in Oakland, But the District Shut Them Down Anyway
- Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Criminalizing Childhood: When the Justice System Fails America’s Youth
- Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
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- Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
- Is Eating Locally and in Season Actually Better for the Environment?
- Equitywashing and the Hidden Costs of Sustainability
- How Europe Is Depleting U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- 21st Century Capitalism Explainer
- Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Exposing the Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
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- Factory Farms and the Next Pandemic: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Global Health Threats
- Feathers, Fame, and Fraud: The Story of Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons
- Financial Fraud, Malfeasance, and Ineptitude Plague Federal Government Charter Schools Program
- Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive, and It’s Leading to Chronic Diseases
- Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
- Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
- What Factory Farm Conditions Do to Animals—Including Humans
- How We Can Protect the Air Despite the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision
- Human Overpopulation Is a Key Driver Behind Some of Humanity’s Biggest Challenges
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- Gratitude Journaling: A Guide for Caregivers
- Greene Street Artists Coop Is a Haven for Philadelphia Creatives
- Grow Your Own Food—and a Kinder World: How Veganic Farming Can Turn Your Garden Into a Haven for All Life
- Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Guide to Factory-Farmed Chickens: Animal Cruelty on a Massive Scale
- Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
- Guide to Starting a Lifetime Journey Into Yoga
- Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
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- Healing Through Words: How Creative Writing Empowers Caregivers
- How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- How a Holistic Approach to Animal Care Can Awaken Human Consciousness
- How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
- How Big Banks Fail Their Climate Commitments by Propping Up Big Meat
- How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- How Data-Driven Storytelling Helps Good Causes Get Funded
- How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
- How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
- How Human Experience Makes Science Possible
- How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
- How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
- How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
- How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
- How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
- How Sustainable Next-Gen Materials Can Create a More Ethical Consumer Market
- How Teachers and Organizers Challenged the First U.S. Education Savings Account Voucher Program
- How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think
- How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
- How the Camera Obscura Turned Dark Rooms Into Dreamlike Worlds
- How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
- How the Crusades Shaped Finance in the West
- How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
- How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
- How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture
- How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- How to Build a Closer Connection With the Living World Around You
- How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- How to Make Your Home and Yard Safe for Hummingbirds
- How Tourism Could Actually Help African Wildlife in One of Kenya’s Important National Reserves
- How Trophic Cascades Devastate Ecosystems and Endanger Human Health
- How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention
- How Zoos Are Danger Zones for Deadly Disease Transmission Between Humans and Animals
- Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline
- Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- How to Localize Our Food Systems
- Why COVID-19 Proved Children Need Physical Schools, Not Virtual Education
- How 19th-Century DIY Dyeing and the Global Ostrich Plume Trade Shaped Fashion and Conservation
- How a Bird Flu Outbreak Wiped Out a Generation of Seals in Patagonia—and What It Means for Wildlife Conservation
- How a Forgotten 19th-Century Text Helped Spark the Modern Revival of Witchcraft
- How a Victorian Scientist Blended Poetry and Experiment to Reveal the Beauty of Nature
- How an Astronomer Hallucinated Marxism Into the Cosmos
- How Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophers Understood Time, Rebirth, and Recurrence
- How Artists Stand on the Front Lines of Political Resistance in America
- How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution
- How Capitalism’s Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
- How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- The Activist Success Story Behind the Biggest Dam Removal Deal in U.S. History
- How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- How Fingerprints Became a Tool for Both Science and Racial Pseudoscience
- How Horse-Drawn Carriages Shaped Cities—And Why Animal Welfare Is Phasing Them Out
- How Human Ecology Education Defuses the Roots of Terrorism
- How Indigenous Jarawara Women Use Snuff to Shape Movement, Meaning, and Daily Life
- Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
- How Magic Mushrooms Shaped Victorian Imagination
- How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
- How One Farmer’s Curiosity Revealed the Hidden Beauty of Snow Crystals and Pioneered Meteorology
- Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
- How Queer Ecology Reveals the Diversity of Nature and Human Experience
- How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
- How the First Slovak Novel Used Adventure and Philosophy to Forge a National Identity
- How the Polar Bear Inspired Darwin’s Ideas About Evolution
- How the Rise of Generative AI Rewrote the Rules for Tech Startups
- How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- How to Solve the Big Problems That Small Family Farms Are Facing
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
- How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
- Is ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ Possible?
- Guide to Animal Rights Protections Around the World
- Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is a Byproduct
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- If You Believe in Social Justice, You Believe in Veganism
- Illegitimate Power, Illegitimate Violence: How Nations Are Built on the Backs of Disenfranchised Children
- Is the Food Industry Concealing Its Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?
- Indigenous and Environmental Defenders Risk Their Lives as the Last Line Protecting the Planet
- Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by a For-Profit Company
- Investigation Exposes Animal Abuse at U.S. Supplier to World’s Largest Meat Company
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- Mainstream Ideology Defends Creditor Claims Over the Indebted Economy
- Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
- Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates
- Monkeys Infected With Transmissible Diseases Are Trucked Across U.S.—Where’s the Transportation Department?
- Terms That Are Frequently Used to Describe Capitalism Simply Don’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny
- Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
- Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the First Person to Understand Climate Change—More Than Two Centuries Ago
- Methane: The Forgotten Climate Change Driver That’s Poisoning Frontline Communities
- Our Food System Is the Bullseye for Solving the World’s Climate Challenges
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- Navigating the Energy Transition: Renewables Abound, but Grid Challenges Loom
- Necropolitics and the Language of Death: How Military Talk Turns Recruits Into Killers
- Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
- Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies
- Ninety-Nine Percent of Seabirds Will Have Plastic in Their Guts by 2050
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- Our Ancient Relationship With Red Ocher and the Color of Cognition
- On Primate Research, the U.S. Is ‘Out of Step’ With the Rest of the World
- How to Fix Our Food System
- Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities
- Our Times Call for Managing Complexities, Not Solving Problems
- Our World Is in a Multifront Crisis—It’s Time to Cultivate a Local Peace Economy
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- Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
- Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
- Perceptions of Social Dominance and How to Change Them
- Global Pet Craze Is Becoming a Major Contributor to the Extinction Crisis
- Planet of Refugees: Children Make Up More Than Half of the Displaced
- Plastic Pollution Is a Crime Against People and the Planet
- Private Enterprise Originated in Public Institutions
