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Today in environmental history: Bill McKibben steps it up with 350.org
April 7, 2015This is the science of climate change. It is no longer up for debate.
Read moreToday in history: Feminist labor organizer Rose Schneiderman is born
April 6, 2015A fiery labor orator, feminist and socialist, she served as president of the Women's Trade Union League.
Read moreToday in history: An occasional poem for the first night of Passover
April 3, 2015Tonight begins the Jewish festival of Passover, which celebrates the exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt.
Read moreToday in environmental history: Mojave Desert spared a nuclear waste dump
April 2, 2015Ward Valley, Calif., was decided upon in 1988 as the preferred location for a nuclear waste dump to be operated by U.S. Ecology.
Read moreToday in history: A joke from the USSR for April Fools’ Day
April 1, 2015I heard the following joke in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, then part of the USSR, as was Moldavia.
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