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[] [In Early Holiday 'Gift to Polluters,' Trump Guts Protections for 60 Percent of Nation's Streams, Wetlands, and Waterways](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3A6THAQMA1r) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3A6THAQMA1r by Julia Conley, staff writer Sixty percent of U.S. waterways will be at risk for pollution from corporate giants, critics say, following the Trump administration's announcement Tuesday that it will roll back an Obama-era water rule meant to protect Americans' drinking water and all the waterways that flow into it. [] [] News... 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If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['An Indication of What's Coming': Melting at North and South Poles Worse Than Previously Thought](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3A6THAQMA1r) [arctic sea ice](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3A6THAQMA1r) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer As the Trump administration tries to undermine the COP 24 climate talks in Poland, new U.S. government data shows that ice melt at both of the planet's poles—driven by rising air and ocean temperatures resulting from human-caused global warming—is worse than previously thought. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. We can’t fall short -- our survival depends on it. 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Those who have been to a battlefield know its terrors: the sounds, the smells, the casualness of the killing, the hunger, the uncertainty, the peril. (Photo: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Nadia Murad/ Getty Images ) ](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3A6THAQMA1r) by Vijay Prashad Fighting indifference with justice on International Human Rights Day --------------------------------------------------------------- [Courage Is Contagious](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3A6THAQMA1r) [A crowd gathers in Leipzig, Germany to commemorate the 70,000 people who courageously joined together in 1989 to peacefully demand freedom and democracy, a catalyst for the fall of the Berlin Wall. 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