Earth’s Failing Life Support System
Biodiversity, or the great variety of life on Earth, from the large number of forests in the Americas to the wide range of birds and mammals in Africa and the deep stocks of fish...
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Is Oaxaca the Future?
Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is promoting a series of new socio-economic initiatives in the nation’s southernmost, and poorest, regions during the initial year of his six-year term in office. In states...
Rising Water: Royal Valley
I met Rachel, a coordinator for a non-governmental organization, at a restaurant called Mesa. She wore a long, white dress and told me that she had trained as a nurse. It was 11:30 on...
Cancer Killer for All
Causes of cancer are well known by now: Genes determine risk factors, but lifestyle choices, especially decisions about food and drink, typically are the deciding factors. The choices which lead to good health are...
John Brown’s Raid: Harpers Ferry
It is Saturday, April 28, exactly 4 days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are traveling, by car, on a short trip...
Inequality Dooms Us All
How much more money do billionaires need to be happy? The patterns of behavior in the global economy are disturbing. Those who manipulate the economy are helping themselves to more wealth all the time...