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Featured Stories

• Ocean Acidification Threatens Alaskan Crab Fishery
  Posted on July 23, 2014 | No Comments

  Ocean acidification, the lesser-known twin of climate change, threatens to scramble marine life on a scale almost too big to fathom. Scientists fear changing ocean chemistry will drive the collapse of Alaska’s iconic crab fishery. Watch the video from PBS NewsHour and the Seattle Times.

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• Indonesia: Peat Swamp Forest Protection Key to Climate
  Posted on July 22, 2014 | No Comments

  During the dry season in Sumatra, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of Indonesian peatland fires burn for months, releasing its massive storehouse of organic carbon. Those fires are a direct result of decades of forest and peatland destruction, which must be protected writes Loren Bell, saving ecosystems, air quality, and the global climate.

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• Living With Wolves: Science Must Inform Politics
  Posted on July 22, 2014 | 1 Comment

  Reviled by ranchers and hunters, managed through "harvesting" by state wildlife agencies, with ardent conservationists its last hope, the gray wolf has cut a controversial wake in the North American landscape ever since it was reintroduced from Canada in 1995. Watch the film on Earth Focus.

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• Protect Greater Yosemite Ecosystem from Salvage Logging
  Posted on July 13, 2014 | No Comments

  The US Forest Service salvage logging plan threatens to damage the health of the Greater Yosemite Ecosystem far more than last year's massive Rim Fire. Chad Hanson from the John Muir Project of the Earth Island Institute explains how wildfires can promote ecological health and survival of many plant and wildlife communities, despite the intense heat and scale of the blazes.

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• Greening Detroit: Positive Change Moves Slow and Fast
  Posted on July 10, 2014 | No Comments

  Urban farming, electric streetcars, neighborhood reinvention, Mayor Mike Duggan’s pledges begin to manifest in Detroit’s North End, despite considerable financial and cultural challenges. John Eligon elaborates in his recent piece.

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• Video Art: The Groovy Waves of Planed Wood
  Posted on July 8, 2014 | No Comments

  Waves of Grain is a two minute strata-cut animation by filmmaker Keith Skretch who planed a block of wood in tiny increments, taking photographs along the way. The final video reveals a repetitive flowing sense of motion as the camera moves effortlessly through the block revealing sinuous curves of wood grain appearing to ripple like water.

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• Maori War Dance Commemorates Battle Victory Against British
  Posted on July 5, 2014 | No Comments

  The Maori People of Tauranga staged a 150-year commemoration of a victory in the last major battle against the British in a losing effort from the New Zealand Wars, that resulted in significant confiscation of their lands and autonomy.

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• Orson Welles: Tragic Hero, Sacred Monster, Profane Clown
  Posted on July 3, 2014 | 1 Comment

  Orson Welles, the cinematic genius who ended his days selling cheap wine, was both noble and feeble, titanic and pathetic, sacred monster and profane clown, says Peter Conrad. We take samples from his oeuvre, his noir thriller The Stranger and his stylistic fragmentation, Othello.

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• Rio’s Favela Pacification: Militarized Gentrification With Benefits?
  Posted on July 3, 2014 | No Comments

  The Brazilian government’s militarized efforts to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to some people living there, while others question the violent tactics and the whether it will make a difference. We provide counterpoint to Joshua Hammer's recent investigation.

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• Governor Brown: Climate Leader or Climate Loser?
  Posted on June 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

  When it comes to fighting pollution, global warming and our climate crisis, Gov. Brown is big on talk, weak on action, supporting fracking and refinery expansion.

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