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An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires
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An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires

For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.

Who killed this Indigenous family in the Peruvian Amazon? And why?
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Who killed this Indigenous family in the Peruvian Amazon? And why?

The killings of members of a once “uncontacted” tribe are tragic—and show how perilous the journey out of isolation can be.
Disaster preparedness was once an American pastime. Is it back?
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Disaster preparedness was once an American pastime. Is it back?

Prepping was seen as a fringe hobby for survivalists and reality TV. Then came the pandemic.
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