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The John Birch Society’s Return to CPAC

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Michael Smart chuckled as he thought back to their banishment.

Truthfully he couldn’t say for sure what the problem had been, why it was that in 2012, the John Birch Society—the far-right organization historically steeped in conspiracism and opposition to civil rights—had found itself blacklisted by the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Nobody knows the official reason, because they don’t tell you that,” Smart, a field coordinator for the group, told me.

He has theories, of course. Perhaps the Birchers’ unapologetic

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Earth Scientists Challenge Their Society’s Coziness With the Fossil Fuel Industry – Mother Jones

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American Geophysical Union fall meeting Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, in San Francisco.Eric Risberg/AP

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 

Scientists who have risked their careers, freedom and livelihoods led a town hall meeting here on Tuesday at the world’s largest annual gathering of earth and space scientists to ask their colleagues to consider what their professional society’s stance should be in relation to the fossil fuel

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Liverpool Street station features on Victorian Society’s top ten list of endangered buildings

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London’s historic Liverpool Street Station features on the Victorian Society’s latest top ten list of endangered buildings amid a battle to stop its much-criticised redevelopment. 

The grade II listed station, which opened in 1875, is set to be transformed by developers as part of £1.5billion proposals which would see the doubling in size of the concourse and the rebuilding of the historic Andaz hotel that neighbours it.

The plans, dubbed ‘grossly opportunistic’ by critics, have prompted the Victorian Society to

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Risking a Society’s Retribution, Growing Numbers of Girls Resist Genital Cutting

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KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — When Seio Bangura’s final high school exam results arrived not long ago, she learned she had earned grades high enough to get into college. It was a thrilling moment for the daughter of farmers who never finished primary school. But Ms. Bangura is not making plans for university. Instead, she spends most days siting on a bench, watching others head to class or work.

Ms. Bangura, 18, left home almost five years ago, after her parents

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