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Cholera and Our Cities

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On May 18, 2020
One thing about living through a pandemic is that it's a good time to discuss other pandemics. One of the biggest public health issues in the 19th century was cholera, with three mass epidemics: 1832, 1849, and 1866, as well as plenty of smaller outbreaks....
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It's not just that it will take a lifetime to recover from the Trump administration. It's that Trump and his corporate allies are determined to ruin the nation's most beautiful areas permanently. The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to allow mining and energy drilling...
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Burn Baby Burn!

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On December 16, 2019
Amazingly, impeachment isn't even close to the most important story in the world right now. Each year, the United Nations holds a conference on climate change to try to nudge the biggest polluters toward containing warming under well below 2 degrees Celsius. Now, that goal...
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Today in the Sixth Extinction

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On December 10, 2019
Just in case you were wondering how much the extinctions of the past few hundred years are caused by humans, the answer is nearly all of them. Not so long ago, the northern seas were full of great auks. Every summer, millions of the two-toned,...
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