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October 8, 2019
In India’s Narmada District — a verdant landscape of rivers, forests and fields — villages received formal, legal recognition of their land and resource rights in 2009. This took place after a long campaign involving multiple representations to local government authorities, as well as non-violent demonstrations. Getting their rights officially recognized has enabled rural communities...
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Your closet. Your desk. Your drawers. Your private spaces never to be seen by guests or colleagues. These are the areas where we accumulate stuff. And they are where each one of us needs to start, if we are to reduce the impact of global consumption on the planet. Clothes, food and other objects we acquire are expected...
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This year offers nations their best chance yet to protect oceans and coasts, and to capitalize on the carbon-capturing potential of these environments, says Janis Searles Jones. More than two-thirds of the planet is covered by ocean, but these waters have not received their due in terms of research dollars or public attention. That means...
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