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A New Technology Could Provide 40% of the World’s Energy Needs, and It’s Carbon-Neutral

Researchers have combined technologies that produce energy where salt and fresh water meet to invent a more efficient system to harness clean energy. This new technology may be able to supply 40 percent of the world's power demands.

May 31, 2017
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Category: Science

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Advocates See A Brighter Future With Zero-Waste and Renewable Energy

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On this episode of The Real Baltimore, United Workers members Greg Sawtell, LaQeisha Greene and Charles Graham say Baltimore could be transformed by eliminating waste, embracing renewable energy and investing in Green Jobs.

May 30, 2017
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Category: Environment

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From Libya to Manchester, Western Intervention Endangers Civilians

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Max Blumenthal, Senior Editor for Alternet's Grayzone Project, says the Manchester bombing's ties to NATO intervention in Libya exemplify how Western policies overseas can help lead to attacks at home.

May 30, 2017
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Category: Politics

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How Insurance Companies and Prisons are Making the Opiate Crisis Worse

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A long time addiction specialists says health insurance companies reluctance to treat heroin addiction as an emergency and prison officials refusal to allow inmates access to methadone are only making a bad situation

May 31, 2017
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Category: Justice

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Human Rights

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Trump and the Future of the Paris Climate Accord

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Climate scientist Dana Nuccitelli discusses the Trump Administrations tendency to embrace fake climate news and the administration's hostility to sound climate change policy.

May 31, 2017
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Category: Environment

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Climate Change

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CRISPR Gene Editing May Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations in DNA

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A new study from Columbia University Medical Center offers a word of warning for those scientists using CRISPR-Cas9. They found that the gene editing technology could lead to unintended mutations, which could remain undetected if they are only checked by algorithms.