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The Indigenous model helping defend the Alaskan wilderness Big oil has been eyeing up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for years. The campaign to protect it scored a big win recently Conservation Environment Politics Society
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The Maasai community that took on the Tanzanian government – and won Evicted from its ancestral land in the 1970s, a Maasai community has made good on its promise to reclaim the territory Environment Politics Society
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Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover. That’s good news for the climate Global efforts to repair the ozone layer are on course to succeed, according to the UN. The news has positive implications for the climate Environment Politics
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