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• The “Lungs of the Earth” Are Lit­er­ally Being Burned Away as Unprece­dented Wild­fires Absolutely Rav­age Our Planet

  We have never seen any­thing quite like this. This week the skies above Brazil’s largest city turned black in the mid­dle of the after­noon due to the mas­sive wild­fires that are cur­rently rag­ing in that coun­try. But the wild­fires aren’t…

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• Law­suit Chal­lenges Trump Admin­is­tra­tion Attack on Endan­gered Species Act

  Envi­ron­men­tal and ani­mal pro­tec­tion groups today sued the Trump admin­is­tra­tion over its new reg­u­la­tions that dra­mat­i­cally weaken the Endan­gered Species Act (ESA). Earth­jus­tice filed the law­suit on behalf of Cen­ter for Bio­log­i­cal Diver­sity, Defend­ers of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Nat­ural…

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• Eighty Years Ago… The Hitler-​Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Real­ity

  In a remark­able book, 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Com­ing of World War II, the Cana­dian his­to­rian Michael Jabara Car­ley describes how, at the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union repeat­edly tried, but finally failed, to…

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