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The following 149 pages are in this category, out of 149 total.
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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
- Activists in Philly Have a Novel Approach to Help De-Oppress Society
- The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
- Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
- Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- The AI Power Play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Others Are Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- The Art of Building a Human-Hawk Relationship
- As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
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- Captive Elephants: The Harsh Reality
- Cats Are Fueling a Global Eco-Crisis, Pushing Birds and Other Species to Extinction
- Chickens Are Smarter Than You Think
- Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- A Circular Economy
- Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
- Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollen Production, Which Means More Seasonal Allergies
- The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- The Community Schools Model
- Community Schools Were Working in Oakland, But the District Is Shutting Them Down Anyway
- Recycling the Discarded
- Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
- The Controversy Over Cannibalism
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- The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
- Enrollment in Nature Schools Soars as Families Rediscover the Benefits of Outdoor Learning
- The Evolution of Mankind’s First Voice: How Drums Shape the Human Story
- The Extreme Cruelty of Putting Mother Pigs in ‘Gestation Crates’
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- The Gilded Age of Animal Advocacy: A Transformative Era for America’s Moral Compass
- The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
- The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
- The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements
- Guide to Becoming an Environmental Leader and Inspiring the Next Generation of Eco-Defenders
- Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
- Guide to Starting a Lifetime Journey Into Yoga
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- Healing Through Words: How Creative Writing Empowers Caregivers
- Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
- Classics:The History of the Standard Oil Company
- How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- How a Community Collaborative in Arkansas Is Pioneering Solutions to Long-Standing Social Problems
- How Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
- How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- How Can We Balance AI’s Potential and Ethical Challenges?
- How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- How Human Experience Makes Science Possible
- How Lab-Grown Meat Could Bring an End to Needless Animal Cruelty
- How Local and Federal Institutions Are (and Aren’t) Taking Care of North Carolina’s Hurricane Survivors—and What Mutual Aid Groups Are Doing to Help
- How Pseudo-Archaeology and Phony Alt-History Rose to Popularity in the US
- How Republics Succeed, Falter, and Fail
- How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
- How Sustainable Next-Gen Materials Can Create a More Ethical Consumer Market
- How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship Works to Uproot Racism in the Food System
- How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
- How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act 2022 Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
- How the United States Is Failing Elephants—and What You Can Do
- How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- How to Help Wild Birds During Their Spring and Fall Migrations
- 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 Can Devastate Ecosystems and Endanger Human Health
- How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention
- The Humble Carrot’s Colorful History
- Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline
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- If You Believe in Social Justice, You Believe in Veganism
- Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?
- How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate Resilient Agriculture
- Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
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- Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
- Mapping the Solidarity Economy
- Meet the Collective Offering an Alternative to the ‘Mental Health Industrial Complex’ for Underserved Communities
- Monkeys Infected With Transmissible Diseases Are Trucked Across U.S.—Where’s the Transportation Department?
- The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All
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- One Problem With Edibles: Dogs Sometimes Eat Them
- Organic Farming Increases Soil Carbon and Helps Counter Climate Chang
- Our Ability to Think in Terms of Numbers Is Universal, Abstract, and Independent From Language
- Our World Is in a Multifront Crisis—It’s Time to Cultivate a Local Peace Economy
- Outdated Narratives Have Humanity in a Downward Spiral—It’s Time to Tell ‘Stories for Life’
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- Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires
- Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
- Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
- Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry
- How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
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- Removing Hydropower Dams Can Restore Ecosystems, Build Climate Resilience, and Restore Tribal Lands
- Restoring the Wild: How Reintroducing Bison Could Revive Britain’s Landscapes and Ecosystems
- Rethinking Climate Action: A New Guideline for Planetary Health
- Rethinking Rank and Privilege in Human Societies
- The Right’s Long Game to End Public Education
- The Rise of AI Warfare: How Autonomous Weapons and Cognitive Warfare Are Reshaping Global Military Strategy
- Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Biology of Our Behavior
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- Sanitation in Namibia Is a Catastrophe for Its People and Environment
- Saving the Bumblebee Starts With Changing Our Farming Practices
- The Science of Twins and the Human Fascination With Them
- See the World and Save the Planet: 10 Incredible Places That Desperately Need Eco-Volunteers
- Skyscrapers of Babel: How Ancient Mesopotamia Shaped the Modern City
- South Africa: Cradle of Human Culture
- The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
- Spontaneous Revolutions: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
- States Are Doing a Terrible Job Enforcing Laws Meant to Protect Farmed Animals
- The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
- The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas
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- Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs
- Classics:Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- The Intricate Connection of Birdsongs With Human Language
- The World’s Greatest Long Hikes
- This Chicago Community Envisions a World Without Prisons and Police
- This Clinic in Chicago Offers Free Legal Aid to Solidarity Economy Groups
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- We Can Interpret How Cooperative or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems of Communication
- We Have Entered the Era of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated
- We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
- What Are Republics, Exactly? It’s a Good Time to Learn
- Classics:What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
- What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
- What’s Behind Right-Wing Attacks on Schools for ‘Teaching Critical Race Theory’
- Why Are Wild Horses Brutally Uprooted From Public Lands While Private Livestock Can Stay?
- Why Celebrities, Actors, Writers, and Artists Fear AI
- Why Children’s Rights Are Critical for Climate Policy and Environmental Activism
- Here’s What More Public Schools Need to Look Like After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Why Do We Sleep and How Can We Sleep Better?
- Why Every Student Needs Human Ecology Education Now
- Why Is Prehistory Inspiring So Many Artists?
- Why Seashells Resemble Spiraling Galaxies and the Human Heart
- Why the Painter Gottfried Mind Is the Raphael of Cats
- Why There Is a Growing Student Absentee Rate—and How Community Schools Can Fix It
- Why We Evolved to Dream at Night and What Dreams Mean
