Your Clothes Might Soon Be Made in Ethiopia

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1. With China’s help, your clothes might soon be made in Ethiopia.

By Emeline Wuilbercq in Le Monde via Worldcrunch

2. Coal miners who lost jobs to renewable energy are working again. Here’s how.

By Hari Sreenivasan at PBS Newshour

3. Can unions make Silicon Valley more fair?

By Josh Eidelson in Bloomberg Businessweek

4. This specially engineered sugarcane hybrid could grow biofuel for jets.

By PETROSS at the University of Illinois

5. We’re searching for life on other planets — but can life on other planets find us?

By Morgan Hollis and Alyssa Drake at the Royal Astronomical Society

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