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History
fromInsideHook
1 week ago

The Forgotten Inventor Who Killed the Great Black Swamp

James B. Hill's Buckeye Traction Ditcher drained Ohio's Great Black Swamp, enabling regional development but destroying ecosystems that contributed to Toledo's 2014 toxic algae crisis.
Environment
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Gaza's environmental apocalypse: What we have left is not soil, it's contaminated waste'

Gaza's ecosystems have been catastrophically degraded—water poisoned, air polluted, soil toxic—constituting environmental genocide and widespread human and ecological devastation.
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