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Nov 16, 2017

Could water — and women — be key to ending extreme poverty?

Douglas Fischer

In Africa alone, women spend a total of 200 million hours every day, on average, collecting water.

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Bayer’s Roundup woes send investors fleeing

Investors are worried that Bayer’s liabilities from Monsanto’s allegedly carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup are only going to rise, pushing shares into a downward spiral.

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Toxics

Consultant poses as journalist in Monsanto trial

Smiling and affable, the young woman was able to pass herself off as a fellow journalist to reporters including AFP covering a landmark trial in San Francisco on the health risks associated with the weedkiller Roundup. The relaxed, confident thirtysomething was in fact an employee of Washington-based FTI Consulting

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Originals

Peter Dykstra: Saviors of the Hudson

On April 1, 1969, a garrulous sportswriter released a book about his true passion. A month later, a smiling folksinger launched a refurbished boat – his true passion.

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Up next – Trial in Monsanto’s hometown set for August after $2 billion Roundup cancer verdict

After three stunning courtroom losses in California, the legal battle over the safety of Monsanto's top-selling Roundup herbicide is headed for the company's hometown, where corporate officials can be forced to appear on the witness stand, and legal precedence shows a history of anti-corporate judgments.

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Climate

Fossil fuel subsidies: the IMF says we pay $5.2 trillion a year

We can’t take on climate change without properly pricing coal, oil, and natural gas. But it’s a huge political challenge.

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How do tribal nations’ treaties figure into climate change?

U.S. courts rarely favor environmental protections as a right — except when it comes to tribes expressing their treaty rights.

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Salton Sea: Ideas abound to fix the California lake. Will any work?

New state leaders vow to think big while building long-delayed pilot wetland projects. Others say let the sea be.

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Plastic pollution: Flip-flop tide engulfs 'paradise' island

Up to a million shoes are among the tide of plastic debris washed up on an Australian island say scientists.

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Climate

Australia's ruling Coalition claims election victory in major upset

Scott Morrison’s government set to hang on to power despite polls predicting his demise

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Climate

These 15 cities are doing the most to fight climate change

Cities, which are home to more than half the world’s population, are stepping up efforts to slash pollution, often wresting the fight against climate change away from national governments.

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Energy

Here there be monsters (made of coal, plastic and pesticides)

A series of paintings by artists Laura and Gary Dumm seeks to challenge viewers with images of pop-culture monsters facing ecological collapse.

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Climate

Los Angeles fire season will never end

A bulletin from our climate future.

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Plans in motion to convert Cayuga Power Plant to data center

LANSING, N.Y. – The Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing will end its coal operations and reopen as a data storage center if all goes according to company plans. At a Lansing Town Board meeting Wednesday,…

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Consultant poses as journalist in Monsanto trial

Peter Dykstra: Saviors of the Hudson

Up next – Trial in Monsanto’s hometown set for August after $2 billion Roundup cancer verdict

Fossil fuel subsidies: the IMF says we pay $5.2 trillion a year

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Plastic pollution: Flip-flop tide engulfs 'paradise' island

Australia's ruling Coalition claims election victory in major upset

These 15 cities are doing the most to fight climate change

Here there be monsters (made of coal, plastic and pesticides)

Los Angeles fire season will never end

Plans in motion to convert Cayuga Power Plant to data center

From making it to managing it, plastic is a major contributor to climate change

New report finds plastic production and use could have the equivalent impact of nearly 300 new coal power plants on Earth's climate over the next decade.

Clairton, PA, wants to be clear: Residents demand accountability from U.S. Steel

"Right now, we are in an emergency, we are in a crisis"

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"Kids breathe about four times as much air as an adults, so they have proportionately more of these chemicals in their bodies."

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In the sweepstakes to find the dumbest climate- or environment-related utterance by the Trump Administration, it's Mike Pompeo for the win.

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Study finds a little more than one-third of the longest rivers on the planet remain unobstructed by human-made changes

Bob Quinn: It’s time to break our addiction to farm chemicals

Agricultural chemicals aren't helping us to be better farmers or make more money. Rather they are harming our health and undermining the economic and agronomic viability of our farms.

Could water — and women — be key to ending extreme poverty?

New report finds plastic production and use could have the equivalent impact of nearly 300 new coal power plants on Earth's climate over the next decade.

"Right now, we are in an emergency, we are in a crisis"

"Kids breathe about four times as much air as an adults, so they have proportionately more of these chemicals in their bodies."

In the sweepstakes to find the dumbest climate- or environment-related utterance by the Trump Administration, it's Mike Pompeo for the win.

Study finds a little more than one-third of the longest rivers on the planet remain unobstructed by human-made changes

Agricultural chemicals aren't helping us to be better farmers or make more money. Rather they are harming our health and undermining the economic and agronomic viability of our farms.

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