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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
- 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
- America Is Still Using Diquat, a Toxic Weedkiller Banned in Much of the World
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Around the World in Nine Festivals: How Music Unites Us Across Borders
- 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
- Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
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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
- How a Bird Flu Outbreak Wiped Out a Generation of Seals in Patagonia—and What It Means for Wildlife Conservation
- Bluewashed: How the Beauty Industry Sold an Ocean-Friendly Illusion
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- How the Camera Obscura Turned Dark Rooms Into Dreamlike Worlds
- Can We Save the World’s Largest Flowers From the Brink of Extinction?
- 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
- Circular Economy: How the Tanda System Helps Latinos in Southern California with Mutual Financial Support
- Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
- Climate Change Is Worsening Seasonal Allergies by Boosting Plant Pollen Production
- The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- The Community Schools Model
- Community Schools Were Succeeding in Oakland, But the District Shut Them Down Anyway
- The Compost Co-op Gives Ex-Inmates a Living Wage Through Meaningful Work
- Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
- The Controversy Over Cannibalism
- Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
- The Curious Craze for ‘Little Switzerlands’ in 19th-Century England
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- The Dark Side of Ecotourism: When Green Travel Exploits People and the Planet
- How Data-Driven Storytelling Helps Good Causes Get Funded
- Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships With Them
- Declining Reading Habits Threaten U.S. Democracy and Social Connection
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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’
- Equitywashing and the Hidden Costs of Sustainability
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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
- Why Food and Nutrition Deserves Its Own Public School Curriculum
- Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
- The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: A Tale of Suffering, Survival, and the Fight to See Farmed Animals
- The Founding Fathers: America’s First Climate Advocates
- How One Farmer’s Curiosity Revealed the Hidden Beauty of Snow Crystals and Pioneered Meteorology
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- The Genetic Secrets That Help Some Animals Defy Aging
- 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
- Gratitude Journaling: A Guide for Caregivers
- Grow Your Own Food—and a Kinder World: How Veganic Farming Can Turn Your Garden Into a Haven for All Life
- 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
- The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis
- Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
- The History of the Standard Oil Company
- How a Holistic Approach to Animal Care Can Awaken Human Consciousness
- 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 Mutual Aid Groups Supported North Carolina’s Hurricane Survivors
- How Pseudo-Archaeology and Phony Alt-History Rose to Popularity in the U.S.
- 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 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 Build a Closer Connection With the Living World Around You
- 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 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
- The Hidden Crisis: How America Fails to Protect Its Children
- How an Astronomer Hallucinated Marxism Into the Cosmos
- How Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophers Understood Time, Rebirth, and Recurrence
- 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 the First Slovak Novel Used Adventure and Philosophy to Forge a National Identity
- How the Rise of Generative AI Rewrote the Rules for Tech Startups
- How Human Ecology Education Defuses the Roots of Terrorism
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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
- Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?
- How Indigenous Jarawara Women Use Snuff to Shape Movement, Meaning, and Daily Life
- Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
- Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Indigenous and Environmental Defenders Risk Their Lives as the Last Line Protecting the Planet
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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
- How Magic Mushrooms Shaped Victorian Imagination
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- Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies
- Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
- Navigating the Energy Transition: Renewables Abound, but Grid Challenges Loom
- Necropolitics and the Language of Death: How Military Talk Turns Recruits Into Killers
- Neuroaesthetics: The Human Evolutionary Preference for Symmetry and Luster
- The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
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- One Problem With Edibles: Dogs Sometimes Eat Them
- Organic Farming Increases Soil Carbon and Helps Counter Climate Change
- 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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- Why Photography Is a Powerful Tool for Justice Movements Across the World
- 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
- Protect Your Inbox: How to Avoid Email and Text Scams
- How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
- Phillis Wheatley: Genius, Poet, and Pioneer in the Face of Slavery
- How the Polar Bear Inspired Darwin’s Ideas About Evolution
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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
- Reviving the Serengeti: How Maasai Women’s Dairy Initiatives Protect Wildlife and Communities
- 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
- The Rising Cost of Your Morning Brew: How Climate Change Is Brewing a Coffee Crisis
- Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Biology of Our Behavior
- Rules vs. Reality: How Competing Views Shape the Way We Use Language
- Reparative Rebirth: African Children at the Heart of Climate Justice and Sovereignty
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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: The New Grand Tour
- 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
- How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
- The Super Predator: How Humans Became the Animal Kingdom’s Most Feared Hunters
- The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
- The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas
- Spotting Conspiracy Talk: A Linguistic Guide for the Digital Age
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- Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs
- How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think
- Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- The Intricate Connection of Birdsongs to 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
- Trapped in a Tank: The Hidden Cruelty of the Tropical Fish Trade
- The Hidden Costs of Light Pollution: Protecting the Night for People and Planet
- The Origins of Solitary Confinement
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- The Venetian Republic Offers Powerful Lessons to an American One in Need of Repair
- Ventilation Shutdown Is One of the Cruelest Ways to Kill Animals
- Victoria Woodhull: America’s First Female Presidential Candidate and Radical Reformer
- How a Victorian Scientist Blended Poetry and Experiment to Reveal the Beauty of Nature
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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
- 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’
- When Science Met the Supernatural: The Strange History of the Fourth Dimension
- When We Restore Forests, We Also Preserve Bird Habitats
- Why Are Wild Horses Brutally Uprooted From Public Lands While Private Livestock Can Stay?
- Why Celebrities, Actors, Writers, and Artists Fear AI
