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- 1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- Want to Help Stop the Plastic Scourge? Stop Relying on Recycling and Do This Instead
- 8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, but We Need to Start Getting Real
- 10 Reasons Why Hydropower Dams Are a False Climate Solution
- 21 Days of Divesting from the War Economy: Active Practice
- Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
- 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
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- A Historical Case for Why the EU Could Endure for More Than 1,000 Years
- A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- A National Asbestos-Exposure Registry of Veterans Could Combat Misdiagnosis in Mesothelioma Cases Nationwide
- Quick Guide to Avoiding Backyard Ecological Traps and Creating a Wildlife Sanctuary
- Activists in Philly Have a Novel Approach to Help De-Oppress Society
- 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
- Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Alternatives to Policing
- An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Anthropology for Kids and Visual Assembly Are Reimagining Work, Education, Money, and More
- Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
- Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
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- Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?
- Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
- Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow?
- Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
- Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change, but Will It Come Soon Enough?
- Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- Cats Are Fueling a Global Eco-Crisis, Pushing Birds and Other Species to Extinction
- The Central Role of Collaboration and Trust in Human Societies
- 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
- Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- Exploring Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Community in Motion
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- Community Schools Were Working in Oakland, But the District Is Shutting Them Down Anyway
- Community Support Helps the Orca Book Cooperative Stay Afloat
- Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Costa Rica: The New Grand Tour
- The Courage of Care Coalition Helps Deconstruct Patterns of Domination and Oppression
- Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
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- Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
- Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
- Debt in Ancient Greece
- Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
- Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
- Do Grandmothers Hold the Key to Understanding Human Evolution?
- Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships With Them
- A Minimum Wage? A Fake Debate
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- Facing a Surge in Wildfires, the U.S. Government Turned to Native Wisdom and Advanced Archaeology
- Financial Fraud, Malfeasance, and Ineptitude Plague Federal Government Charter Schools Program
- Finding the Roots of Religion in Human Prehistory
- 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
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- Pets and the Pet Industry Are Major Contributors to the Global Extinction Crisis
- Greene Street Artists Coop Is a Haven for Philadelphia Creatives
- The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements
- Humanity Is Getting Increasingly Serious About Enforcing Animal Rights Protections All Over the Planet
- Guide to Becoming an Environmental Leader and Inspiring the Next Generation of Eco-Defenders
- Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Guide to Factory-Farmed Chickens: Animal Cruelty on a Massive Scale
- Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
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- Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
- Home Improvement
- 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 a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Around the U.S. Adopt Solar Power
- How a Worker Cooperative Is Mitigating the Stray Animal Crisis in Texas
- How Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
- How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- How Artists Have Been on the Front Lines of Political Resistance for the Past 50 Years
- How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
- How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution: The Dark Side of Renewable Energy
- How California’s Farmers and Ranchers Could Lead the Way to Climate Resilience
- How Can the Study of Hierarchy/Heterarchy Influence the Future?
- How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
- How Capitalism’s Dogged Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
- Cities Around the World Are Fixing Our Broken Food System
- How Collectives Are Empowering People to Understand the Tricky Financial Side of Life
- How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
- Europe Is Perversely Causing the Destruction of U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
- How Human Experience Makes Science Possible
- A Climate Change Solution No One’s Talking About: Better Land Use
- How Literary Frauds Strike Again… and Again
- How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
- How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
- How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
- How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
- 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
- Artist Group’s ‘Remember the Future’ Podcast Shines a Light on the Solidarity Economy
- How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- How Practices of Care Can Support Endurance for Activists
- How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making
- 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 Teachers and Organizers Challenged the First U.S. Education Savings Account Voucher Program
- How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
- How the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation Into Law
- How the Bayh-Dole Act Wrested Public Science From the People’s Hands
- 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 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 World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- How Three New Museums Are Teaching the World About a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Origins
- How to Catch a Literary Fraud: The Case of James Frey
- How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- Our Food System Is Broken and Inhumane, but It Can Be Fixed
- Here’s How We Can Localize Our Increasingly Fragile Food Systems
- How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- How to Make Your Home and Yard Safe for Hummingbirds
- 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 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
- Unclear Federal Law Allows Logging, Farming, and Mining to Threaten America’s Biodiverse Ecosystems
- Feeling Defeated by the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling? There’s Still a Lot We Can Do
- How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future
- How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
- Human Bridges Project: A New Wave of Information for Our Times
- From COVID-19 to Climate Change, Human Overpopulation Is the Big White Elephant in the Room
- Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is Just One of the Byproducts
- Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline
- A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
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- If You Believe in Social Justice, You Believe in Veganism
- How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate Resilient Agriculture
- Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by a For-Profit Company
- Investigation Exposes Animal Abuse at US Supplier to World's Largest Meat Company
- Humanitarian Intervention
- Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe?
- Eating Locally and in Season: Is It Really Better for the Environment?
- Is Politics All in the Mind?
- Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?
- It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes
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- Mainstream Ideology Defends Creditor Claims Over the Indebted Economy
- Volunteer for the Observatory
- Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
- Mapping the Solidarity Economy
- 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
- Meet the Collective Offering an Alternative to the ‘Mental Health Industrial Complex’ for Underserved Communities
- Methane: The Forgotten Climate Change Driver That’s Poisoning Frontline Communities
- Millions of People Freecycle Instead of Buying New
- Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates
- Monkeys Infected With Transmissible Diseases Are Trucked Across U.S.—Where’s the Transportation Department?
- Montana’s First Worker Cooperative Is In It for the Long Haul
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- Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies
- Navigating the Energy Transition: Renewables Abound, but Grid Challenges Loom
- The Aesthetic and Evolutionary Preference of Lustrous Surfaces in Humans
- Ninety-Nine Percent of Seabirds Will Have Plastic in Their Guts Within Decades
- Not as Simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity Has a Surprisingly Diverse Understanding of Numbers
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- A Critique of Obscene Wealth
- On Primate Research, the U.S. Is ‘Out of Step’ With the Rest of the World
- Organic Farming Increases Soil Carbon and Helps Counter Climate Chang
- Our Ancient Relationship With Red Ocher and the Color of Cognition
- How Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
- Missing From the Climate Solution: Fixing the Broken Food System
