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Surprise, surprise! The US Food and Drug Administration has found unexpected antibiotic resistant genes in cattle genetically engineered not to grow horns.
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The Yucatán Peninsula is home to about half of Mexico's endangered jaguars. There's a plan afoot to run a 1,500-kilometer rail route through the peninsula to promote tourism in the region. Guess who will be the losers with this $7.8 billion "Mayan Train" project?
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Brazil's Forest Fires. More Trump Bizarreness. The Keystone Zombie.
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The raging fires in the Amazon rainforest that have grabbed world headlines are linked to forest clearing by farmers and ranchers. That deforestation, it turns out, has been tied to two Brazilian firms that have made major donations to Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is still flip-flopping on international aid offers to help fight the blazes, but his new buddy Trump has been patting him on the back for his handling of the crisis.
The Donald, meanwhile, has been busy sitting out climate talks at the G7 meeting in France. It’s unclear if Trump missed the climate sessions on purpose or due to a scheduling snafu, but either way, the faux pas didn't stop him from calling himself "an environmentalist" just a few hours later.
Back in the US, it's safe to assume that the Trump administration is celebrating the Nebraska Supreme Court's greenlighting of the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial fossil fuel project that just won't die. Environmental and Indigenous advocates are now hanging their hats on a handful of federal lawsuits and the potential election of an anti-Keystone democratic candidate in 2020.
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Former Journal managing editor Amy Westervelt’s incandescent rage about "the loudest voices" covering environmental stories and "the patriarchal, capitalist pyramid" that promotes business-as-usual technofix solutions to the climate crisis is a thing of beauty to behold. But more importantly, her writing reminds us why it's absolutely normal and intellectually honest to get emotional, and yes, angry, about how corporate capitalism is destroying our world. Don't miss "The Case for Climate Rage" in Popula.
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