History’s Greatest Sea Is Dying
The failure of countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean helps explain the difficulty of carrying out successful climate-change negotiations.
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Environmental activists pushing for clean water, restrictions on poaching, and action on climate change have faced prison—or worse.
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After fleeing a warzone, Syrians find that Egyptians want to hunt them down.
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One thing that makes this crisis so vexing: Each of the country's major groups have done something totally horrible in the past few weeks.
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