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• Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta…
• Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a…
• There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,…
• The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size…
• Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long…
• If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be…
• The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
• The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years…
• As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an…
• The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is…
• According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the…
• The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

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