How Dirt Can Help Solve Climate Change

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1. To fight climate change, protect the soil — and its microbes.

By Esther Ngumbi in Scientific American

2. Here’s why the Justice Department’s stand on North Carolina’s so-called ‘Bathroom Bill’ is so important.

By Henry Wilde in Huffington Post

3. Where a résumé falls short, can ‘microcredentials’ fill the gap?

By Don Baylor at the Urban Institute

4. Apple is the new IBM.

By Matt Phillips in Quartz

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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