Invasive Weed Threatens to Overrun Nature Reserve
Photo via Nepal4 Authorities at Nepal’s Chitwan National Park are sweating over an unlikely menace which threatens to overrun the 230,000 acre nature reserve, home to some of the world’s most...
View ArticleSen. Graham Threatens To Walk Away From Climate Bill If Immigration Comes Next
photo via Senatus The Senate is a distinguished body, called by some the most “exclusive club in the world.” But it’s also the place that big ideas go to die and a body that seems to be able to...
View ArticleAre Fake and Bakers on the Decline? New 10% Tanning Tax Takes Effect
Celebrate INDEPENDENCE with Tannign TAX CC, Flickr via Evil Erin We’ve reported here before that tanning beds are on par with cigarettes in terms of cancer risk. In fact, the ultraviolet radiation they...
View ArticleRoad Plan Threatens World’s Best Riesling Vineyards
The Mosel valley. Photo by Dittmeyer via Flickr On the steep hillsides of the Mosel valley , in southwestern Germany, the vineyards are tended by hand, as they have been since Roman times. It is not...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: How Water Scarcity Threatens the Planet
Water is one of the world’s most important natural resources – yet safe, fresh drinking water is in increasingly short supply. Studies show that over 1.1 billion people lack access to potable water,...
View ArticleWaste work shift: Inside the structural changes in the global waste sector
Informal waste workers have long managed the waste of the South, for whom new forms of collectives offer new hope, while the gig economy threatens to de-formalize waste management in the North. More...
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