1. To fight climate change, protect the soil — and its microbes.
By Esther Ngumbi in Scientific American
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3. Where a résumé falls short, can ‘microcredentials’ fill the gap?
By Don Baylor at the Urban Institute
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5. Find out how solar power brought Muslims and Jews together in one West Bank village.
By Lonnie Shekhtman in the Christian Science Monitor

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