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Science
A Stunning Eclipse, a Moon Race and Other Space Events in 2024
India landed a robot on the moon and NASA brought pieces of an asteroid back to Earth to study. A green comet illuminated night skies and a “ring of fire” eclipse captivated spectators from Oregon to Brazil. SpaceX launched nearly 100 rockets, and ...
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World
‘There’s No Other Job’: The Colonial Roots of Philippine Poverty
Rodino Sawan stepped into the wire harness and dug his toes into the muddy track that threads the sweltering plantation. He pushed forward, straining against the cargo trailing behind him: 25 bunches of freshly harvested bananas strung from hooks ...
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US
Americans Love Avocados. It’s Killing Mexico’s Forests.
First the trucks arrived, carrying armed men toward the mist-shrouded mountaintop. Then the flames appeared, sweeping across a forest of towering pines and oaks. After the fire laid waste to the forest last year, the trucks returned. This time, they ...
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US
In Death Valley, a Rare Lake Comes Alive
Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells are among the roadside outposts inside Death Valley National Park, while Dante’s View draws tourists at sunset and Hell’s Gate greets visitors arriving from the east. In the summer, it is so hot here, along ...
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News
The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your Land
When Mayor Mike Duggan talks about his accomplishments in Detroit, the list is both impressive and sad. He had the streetlights turned back on, and reopened closed parks. In the decade since he took office, the city has demolished some 25,000 ...
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US
Seeds of Native Knowledge Grow in North Carolina
ACROSS THE COUNTRY Seeds of Native Knowledge Grow in North Carolina Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains. More people want to learn from them. Amy Walker, an elder with the Eastern Band ...
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News
Energy Firms, Green Groups and Others Reach Deal on Solar Farms
The agreement could help speed up the development of large solar projects that are often bogged down by fights over land use and environmental concerns.
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US
After Biden’s Border Wall Pivot, a Texas County Asks: Why Build It Here?
On the outskirts of Rio Grande City, Texas, Eva Alvarez stepped past the graves of her parents and grandparents before stopping at the edge of the small cemetery to marvel at the rust-red steel bollards stacked in piles, row after row, not far from ...
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Newyork
Tony Hawk Showed Me What’s Sacred About Cities
The games remind you of the endless possibilities that they possess, the antithesis of how we have sometimes been encouraged to approach them: with caution.
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Newyork
Australia Must Finally Listen to Its Indigenous People
If you found yourself in the ocher-colored sands of an Australian desert, listening to the creation stories of Indigenous elders, you would discover that these tales are as marvelous and powerful — in their telling, humanity and spirit — as the ...