Maize, rice, wheat: alarm at rising climate risk to vital crops
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Bump it!Simultaneous harvest failures in key regions would bring global famine, says the Met Office
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Watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How to Teach Science
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Bump it!Physics and science play a huge part in everything around us — and pop culture is a great way to frame new information.
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Former NASA Climate Chief Warns That Earth Could Become “Practically Ungovernable”
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Bump it!Former NASA climate chief James Hansen believes climate change's most dangerous effect will be a continuous rise in sea levels and not necessarily the increase in temperatures. Because so many people live in coastal cities, the mass migrations inland that will follow this rise could leave the world in ungovernable chaos.
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- Category: Environment
Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US
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Bump it!Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists and journalists since the incident almost
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- Category: Media
While Attacks in Israel Make Headlines, Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Ignored
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Bump it!The recent acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza—on top of the routine humanitarian crisis that defines everyday existence there—has gotten sparse coverage in US media over the past three weeks.
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War & Cholera Decimate Yemen, But Saudi Bombing Gets More US Help
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Bump it!As Yemen's cholera epidemic spirals out of control and millions face famine, Alternet reporter Ben Norton says the U.S. is complicit in the humanitarian crisis caused by Saudi-led war.
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- Category: Politics
New Rules for Banks: "Honest Bankers Please Step Forward"
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Bump it!Former financial regulator Bill Black offers bankers a challenge: Step forward if you support the new rule issued by The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau allowing consumers to bring about class-action litigation against banks
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- Category: Politics
The Greatest Story Too Rarely Told: America Is an Oligarchy
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Bump it!We live in a nation controlled by corporate power and the individually wealthy. And the major press, of course, is in on the con.
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New Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer to Growing Replacement Organs
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Bump it!Australian scientists have found that a protein called Meox1 plays a vital role in stem cell growth in the human body. Understanding the mechanism behind this growth will eventually allow us to grow organs in the lab and save thousands of lives.
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- Category: Science
Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert Exposes How Nations Use Cyberwarfare to Target Activists & Journalists
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Bump it!Part 2 of our conversation with Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab recently revealed how the Mexican government used Israeli-made spy software to surveil
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- Type: Video
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