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Category Archives: news
Vote– except if you’re a Native in North Dakota
After Standing Rock, Republicans in the “Deep North” are taking no chances. In April, the Republican-dominated North Dakota legislature passed, and the Republican governor signed, a bill that required voter identification to include a residential street address. As the Native … Continue reading
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Tagged #standingrock, court of appeals, disenfranchised, eighth district, election, hovland, North Dakota, residential address, Standing Rock, trump, turtle mountain, voter fraud
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Relocated Bad River Chippewa town now a model for climate change adaptation
From NPR: Wisconsin Reservation Offers A Climate Success Story And A Warning The town wasn’t moving because of climate change, per se, but as people moved out of the flood plain, rainstorms were getting more frequent and severe. There have … Continue reading
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Tagged bad river, Chippewa, climate, climate change, flood, managed retreat, odanah, relocation
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Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction
The Richland High School Bombers honors the dropping of atom bombs with school paraphernalia that says “Nuke ’em” over a mushroom cloud. Continue reading
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Tagged atom bomb, bombers, hanford, Japanese, mascot, Moriguchi, mushroom, nagasaki, Oppenheimer, proud of the cloud, radiation, Richland High School Bombers
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The recovery of the bald eagle: An American success story
The population of the bald eagle, the US national bird that is also much revered by Native Americans, reflects political trends in the US. In the latter parts of the 1900s, the bald eagle faced extinction, or at least extirpation … Continue reading
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Tagged bald eagle, christmas bird count, data, eagle, endangered species act, recovery
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The US at the abyss: What did we learn from the child separation policy?
After several weeks of shock, horror, tears, and rage, we are back from the abyss of war crimes and a level of racial terrorism that seemed unimaginable since the Civil Rights Era. Make no mistake, this was a defining moment … Continue reading
Oil companies have researched climate change for 50 years– accurately
Long before climate change was controversial, before Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, before the public was even aware of greenhouse gases and sea level rise, the oil industry knew pretty much what we now know today. They have been studying, researching, … Continue reading
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Tagged #climatechange, API, big oil, BP, california, chevron, climate change, CO2, emissions, Exxon, first amended complaint, global warming, ipcc, lawsuit, oakland, research, science, sea level rise, Shell, temperature
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American policy past and present: Ripping brown children from their mothers’ arms
Few images evoke a more visceral reaction than seeing authorities tear children from the arms of their mothers. As the men in uniform pry hands from their mothers’ legs, the children are wide-eyed in terror while the mothers scream in … Continue reading
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Tagged aclu, boarding school, border, child removal, children, ice, immigration, kizzy, mothers, policy, roots, separation, trump
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Billy Frank Jr’s legacy lives on in Washington agriculture
“Salmon-safe” label spreads across farms in the Pacific Northwest “Billy Frank Jr. is a big reason he decided to change the way he runs his farm. It was Frank who encouraged Wilcox to stop using pesticides, plant trees by waterways … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, billy frank, certification, eggs, farms, Nisqually, pesticide, runoff, salmon, salmon-safe
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Native communities confront oil development across Turtle Island: April 2018 update
Across North America, Native communities are leading the battle against increasing oil development, fighting proposed new production, pipelines, and crude-by-rail routes. There is hardly a new proposal without indigenous opposition. Here is an update from the front lines. Note: Many … Continue reading
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Tagged #DakotaAccessPipeline, #DAPL, #noDAPL, bayou bridge, bears ears, carbon, chaco, court, crude, dilbit, enbridge, energy east, Keystone, kinder morgan, northern gateway, oil, pipeline, protest, rail, red lake, Standing Rock, swinomish, tar sands, trans mountain, transcanada, xl
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Laser technology reveals enormous Mayan civilization
‘Game Changer’: Maya Cities Unearthed In Guatemala Forest Using Lasers In a few hours, using LiDAR radar from a fixed-wing aircraft, “archaeologists have discovered 60,000 Maya structures that make up full sprawling cities.” The Mayan civilization was “three or four … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, guatemala, laser, LiDAR, Maya, Mayan, population, radar, Tikal
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