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Today in the Sixth Extinction

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On November 11, 2019
The story of how humans are turning the ocean into an ecologically barren trash-strewn watery desert is even more depressing than most contemporary environmental news. Researchers studying baby fish off the coast of Hawaii announced a troubling discovery on Monday. Minuscule plastic particles are clustering at...
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Today in the Sixth Extinction

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On September 23, 2019
Ever since the giant dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers were constructed in the mid-20th century, people have known that they destroy salmon runs. The 4 huge dams on the lower Snake are particularly awful and unnecessary. But because the people in Lewiston are...

Straw Politics

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On September 5, 2019

So I've been growing increasingly frustrated with the anti-straw campaigns over the past year. And now Kamala Harris is on the train. Yesterday, Shakezula got on the Twitter machine about.

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Zombie Mines

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On September 5, 2019
Dust blowing off the top of copper mine tailing piles. Witold Skrypczak/Lonely Planet Images/Getty This is an excellent story about a serious environmental problem and the ridiculous lack of meaningful corporate oversight in the United States. Mining is incredibly environmentally destructive and mining companies are...

New Ways to Pollute

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On August 14, 2019

Capitalism clearly has the solution to our environmental problems! When Melanie Bergmann, an ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, collected snow and ice samples for her new study,.

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Once again, neoliberalism has truly been defeated, as Tom Philpott explains On Wednesday, the United States Environmental Protection Agency doubled down on one of the most controversial environmental deregulation moves of the Trump presidency. Under pressure from a looming court-ordered deadline, the EPA reaffirmed its...
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