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    <title>Georgia Professors Teach Undocumented Students—for Free</title>        
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    <description>Georgia is one of three states that exclude undocumented students from full access to higher education. "Freedom University" operates on the principle that “you can stop me from going to a UGA classroom, but you can’t stop a UGA professor from teaching me.” </description>        
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    <description>Just hours after Sandy Hook, the managers of the teachers’ pension fund sold off their stock in a manufacturer of semi-automatic rifles.</description>        
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    <title>Protecting the Ozone: 25 Years of the Montreal Protocol</title>        
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    <description>How a universal treaty is still working to protect the ozone layer a quarter-century later.</description>        
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    <title>NASA Climate Expert James Hansen: The Future Is Now—and It Is Hot</title>        
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    <description>Climate change is already increasing the likelihood of weather extremes—like the droughts and heat waves we’ve seen in recent years—according to a new report by one of NASA’s top climate scientists.</description>        
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      <dc:creator>Jeff Raderstrong</dc:creator>
    
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    <title>Next Leaders in the Climate Movement: Insurance Companies?</title>        
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    <description>Insurance companies are likely to pay out billions in claims due to events caused by climate change—which makes them well-poised to lead the way to a low-carbon economy.</description>        
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    <title>Full Speed Ahead for Coal Train Opposition</title>        
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    <description>The battle over exporting coal is a crossroads for the Pacific Northwest. Will the region stay its course toward clean energy, or become a global trafficking hub for the most dangerous fossil fuel? </description>        
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    <title>A Bill of Rights—for Homeowners</title>        
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    <description>California’s new law gives increased protection to people threatened with foreclosure. Will other states follow?</description>        
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      <dc:creator>Seth Sandronsky</dc:creator>
    
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    <title>WTO Rules Against Labeling Meat</title>        
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    <description>Now the U.S. has to gut a law that protects consumers from imported mystery meat—or pay the price.</description>        
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    <title>Climate Experts: More Extreme Weather to Come</title>        
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    <description>It's official. Droughts, floods, heatwaves, and hurricanes can, indeed, be tied to a climate made increasingly chaotic by human activity.</description>        
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    <title>After the Drought: Will Climate Reporting Take Off?</title>        
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    <description>After the release of a report on links between extreme weather and climate change, Americans may get what polls show 80 percent of us want: more environmental reporting in mainstream news.</description>        
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    <title>Feedback from the Melting Arctic</title>        
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    <description>NASA completed a cross-institutional study on rising methane levels in the Arctic. The results, we're afraid, do not look good.</description>        
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    <title>How a Tiny Group of Activists Blocked a Giant New Plutonium Facility</title>        
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    <description>From New Mexico, a victory in the fight against nuclear proliferation.</description>        
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    <title>Germany Swaps Nuclear for Solar and Wind Power</title>        
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    <description>In response to the Fukushima meltdown—which did $50 billion in damage to Japan’s economy—Germany aims to close all its reactors by 2022.</description>        
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    <title>A Fair Trade iPad? How Apple Could Change the Industry's Game</title>        
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    <description>This year's public outcry against Apple and Foxconn factory conditions might finally point electronics production in a fairer direction.</description>        
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    <title>Europe Bans Export of Death Penalty Drugs</title>        
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    <description>The EU makes a bold move towards the abolition of executions everywhere.</description>        
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