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Human-Driven Mass Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of Life | Stanford University

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sept. 18 (Phys.org) -- The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear. Yet, an analysis from ...

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Climate Conflagration: Maui to Montana | Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

Amy Goodman Denis MoynihanAmy Goodman & Denis Moynihan -- Democracy Now! Aug. 17, 2023 Climate change-fueled drought and high winds created the perfect conditions for raging wildfires across the ...

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How To Stop And Reverse Global Warming | Bing

Francis Goodwin asks Bing: How to stop and reverse global warming? July 28, 2023 (Bing) -- Global warming is a serious threat to the planet and its inhabitants. It is caused by the accumulation of ...

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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown

Ellen BrownEllen Brown -- Web of Debt April 13, 2023 Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s ...

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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney

Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...

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Anatomy Of A Financial Meltdown | Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel RoubiniA vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Mar 13, 2023 In this February 2008 ...

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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown

Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other ...

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6 Reasons to Feel Grateful During Covid — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust September 20, 2021 A novel coronavirus, deadly and unnecessary lockdowns, civil unrest, political division, economic crises, a rise in mental health issues — the list ...

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We’re All in This Together! — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust September 18, 2021 (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of World News Trust.) In 2020, health care workers ...

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A Prayer for Nonbelievers | John Michael Greer

A familiar volume.Sept. 1, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- I was 10 years old when The Limits to Growth first saw print. I have a dim memory of seeing a newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things ...

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The System Isn't Broken, It’s Fixed — Mickey Z.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of World News Trust) Mickey Z. — World News Trust August 29, 2021 Both chronic stress and ...

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www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/02/bankman-fried-s…

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Saw Missing Billions as ‘Rounding Error,’ Biographer Michael Lewis Says Michael Lewis revealed management failings at crypto exchange FTX and a multi-billion-dollar plan to keep Donald Trump from running for office again, in an interview… www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/02/bankman-fried-saw-missing-ftx-billions-as-rounding-error-biographer-says/

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Nobel in medicine goes to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

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‘Flashing Red Warning’—$33 Trillion U.S. ‘Debt Death Spiral’ Could Suddenly Trigger A Bitcoin Price ‘Vicious Circle’ www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/10/01/flashing-red-warning-33-trillion-us-debt-death-spiral-could-suddenly-trigger-a-bitcoin-price-vicious-circle/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1&cap=swipe

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Where Liquid Staking Meets Tokenization The crypto industry is changing rapidly, and liquid staking stands at the forefront of this transformation. www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/09/29/where-liquid-staking-meets-tokenization/

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OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI | Nieman Journalism Lab Some of the funding will go to form a "studio" within the American Journalism Project; the rest will go to about 10 of AJP's grantees. www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/openai-will-give-local-news-millions-to-experiment-with-ai/

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Mouthwash for dogs: Water additive with pomegranate helps to keep canine teeth healthy

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How Microsoft could supplant Apple as the world’s most valuable firm It hopes to seize on AI to transform the future of work | Briefing www.economist.com/briefing/2023/09/27/how-microsoft-could-supplant-apple-as-the-worlds-most-valuable-firm?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content

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Manchester Mill newsletter eyes expansion after £1.75m valuation | Regional & local newspapers | The Guardian Startup considers cities including Leeds and Glasgow for new versions of its paywalled local media model www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/30/manchester-mill-prepares-for-uk-expansion-after-valuation?_hsmi=76769268&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--2SxuaW2Axl1BHKIamPkywITYo6r-0bBCoIY6QB5Xo9Tr5dgheWB1i28OXqqLr0UPOzzIYSWuuDlJRz-dH9WKkare06C1LWxgyEPOC3i4SuHaXJ2E

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