| Q&A: Oakland mayor on her commitment to Paris climate pact Posted: 02 Jun 2017 02:34 PM PDT ![Q&A: Oakland mayor on her commitment to Paris climate pact]( "Q&A: Oakland mayor on her commitment to Paris climate pact") How plausible is it that the US Climate Alliance can meet the Paris targets by itself? More than 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions on this planet come out of cities and that number's going to only increase as more and more of the population is moving to cities. Oakland is a great example.
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| Paris pullout: Defiant US Climate Alliance emerges in its wake Posted: 02 Jun 2017 01:59 PM PDT ![Paris pullout: Defiant US Climate Alliance emerges in its wake]( "Paris pullout: Defiant US Climate Alliance emerges in its wake") President Trump's historic decision to withdraw from the Paris global climate accord has produced an extraordinary reaction from a group of US states, cities, and corporations opposed to the move. Does American leadership always reside in the White House?
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| The end of books? Tell that to 250,000 book lovers at the Hay Festival. Posted: 02 Jun 2017 11:43 AM PDT ![The end of books? Tell that to 250,000 book lovers at the Hay Festival.]( "The end of books? Tell that to 250,000 book lovers at the Hay Festival.") The Hay Festival, one of the world's great literary gatherings, is going stronger than ever in its 30th year. On Saturday, the official bookstore saw record sales, says store manager Gareth Howell-Jones – until it broke that record the following Sunday. Book lovers in the thousands descend each year into this Welsh idyll of rolling green to scoop up the year's hottest titles and listen to the authors who have penned them, in an event Bill Clinton once called the "Woodstock of the mind." Filing into author talks and filling up their tote bags, the estimated 250,000 attendees of the Hay Festival are nothing if not a testament that printed prose is still very much in demand.
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| How cultural biases obscure women's true role in ISIS Posted: 02 Jun 2017 10:42 AM PDT ![How cultural biases obscure women's true role in ISIS]( "How cultural biases obscure women's true role in ISIS") One thing drove university graduate Emna from abandoning her middle-class life in Tunisia to carry the so-called Islamic State's banner in neighboring war-torn Libya. Recommended: How much do you know about the Islamic State? "I wanted to defend Sunni Muslims," says Emna, using her nom de guerre, via Skype from Tunisia.
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