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Topic: North America

Wild Boars (Sus scrofa) in a forest (Getty Images/Christian Steinboeck)

A new front in the war on feral hogs

Marcus Lashley - The Conversation
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Prescribed fires can prevent big blazes

Madeline Ostrander - Undark
(emneves/Getty Images)

The future of North American winters

Olivia Box - Massive Science
Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

How wildfires threaten water supplies

François-Nicolas Robinne, Dennis W. Hallema, Kevin D. Bladon - The Conversation
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Two birds perch on a snow-covered branch of a tree during a storm in Washington, DC, March 21, 2018. (David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images)

"Bird emergency"

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
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Farmers are changing the local climate

Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens
(AP/Evan Vucci/Salon)

NAFTA snafu

Tim Meyer - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

american workers lose first

Robert A. Blecker - The Conversation
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Donald Trump supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, August 25, 2016. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

"America first" won't work

Robert A. Blecker - The Conversation

Brexit is bigger than Britain

Terrence Guay - The Conversation

Ioan Grillo - GlobalPost
The Tikker "death watch" counts down to the time the user dies. Photo courtesy of Tikker.

Allison Jackson - GlobalPost
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Simran Khosla - GlobalPost
(Reuters/Carlos Barria)

America's middle-class defeat

Edward McClelland

Andrew Nikiforuk - The Tyee
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-72655p1.html'>Brian Weed</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Geoff Dembicki - The Tyee
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K. Annabelle Smith - Smithsonian.com
(Dmitrijs Bindemanis/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Wikimedia)

Ryan O'Hanlon - Pacific Standard
(Matjaz Boncina)

Charmaine Noronha
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The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota. (Reuters)

Michael Klare - TomDispatch.com
Luis Jimenez’s “Mustang” at the Denver International Airport. Image from Denverpost.com.

Ben Valentine - Hyperallergic
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