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Community-Powered Solar in Puerto Rico
Walking the Wild Applegate
Decolonizing Environmentalism
| Earth Optimism Summit | Smithsonian Conservation Commons
When only a handful of individuals remain, you might think all is lost. Yet scientists have used their ingenuity to…
Experts warn 800 species, many endangered, affected by border wall
Mexico is home to 10 percent of all land species known to science, many of which are shared across North…
Antarctica’s Sleeping Ice Giant Could Wake Soon
The massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet looks stable from above—but it’s a dangerously different story below
On a Mission: Restoration to Return NASA Mission Control Room to Apollo Glory
A new initiative will restore NASA’s Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, bringing it back to its appearance…
The Swashbuckling History of Women Pirates
When women roamed the high seas in search of fortune, freedom, and sometimes revenge
How Ants Became the World’s Best Fungus Farmers
Ancient climate change may have spurred a revolution in ant agriculture, Smithsonian researchers find
Trump Again Downplays Steve Bannon’s White House Role | The Huffington Post
Bannon is “a guy who works for me,” Trump said.
Theatres to screen Orwell's 1984 to protest Trump | News | Al Jazeera
Nearly 200 cinemas will show the film version of the dystopian classic on Tuesday to encourage political conversation.
GODS IN SHACKLES – A Film To END Elephant Slavery
It’s being called the “Blackfish” for elephants. The groundbreaking documentary, the multiple award-winning and United Nations nominated film, Gods in…
India's sugarcane farmers: A cycle of debt and suicide | India | Al Jazeera
How rising debts, pesticides and erratic rainfall are pushing some farmers in southern India to suicide.