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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">IN 
                                SPRING 2019, blossom-topped hedgehog cacti lined 
                                hiking trails and abundant wildflowers swarmed 
                                islands of palo verde trees and saguaros in 
                                Arizona’s Catalina State Park. Yet many of these 
                                plants would die the following year when the 
                                120,000-acre Bighorn Fire burned a third of this 
                                stunning Sonoran desertscrub landscape. The 
                                blaze, sparked by a lightning strike just north 
                                of Tucson, exemplifies a new dynamic of 
                                worsening desert wildfires that are impacting 
                                beloved Southwestern landscapes and endangering 
                                nearby communities.</P>
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                                fires in Desert Southwest landscapes were rarely 
                                noted during the nineteenth and much of the 
                                twentieth centuries. But since 2005, nine 
                                mega-fires above 100,000 acres have burned in 
                                the Sonoran Desert and adjacent landscapes. 
                                Wildfire frequency is also increasing. In the 
                                Tonto National Forest outside Phoenix, home to 
                                vast expanses of saguaros, one study reported an 
                                approximate threefold increase in wildfires from 
                                2000 through 2020 relative to the prior 20 
                                years.</P>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">The 
                                Southwest’s desert ecosystems are young, says 
                                desert ecologist Benjamin Wilder, director of 
                                Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers, a 
                                cross-discipline, multinational coalition 
                                focused on biocultural conservation. “Things 
                                have kind of just gotten here,” he said 
                                regarding the region’s flora. With climate 
                                change, an expanding human population, and the 
                                incursion of nonnative grasses driving this new 
                                fire regime, scientists and land managers are 
                                racing to understand how the Southwest’s 
                                still-evolving plant communities are 
                                responding.</P>
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                                align=center><I>Journalist Anna Marija Helt digs 
                                into the growing fire risk in the Southwest, 
                                unexpected desert resilience, and the dedicated 
                                people working to preserve this unique 
                                landscape.</I></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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                                style="COLOR: #5e9aab; TEXT-DECORATION: none" 
                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/3619104/bJSo6b64" 
                                target=_blank>Backyard Biodiversity</A></H1></B>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">We 
                                often overlook the creatures living right under 
                                our noses. But, as Thor Hanson writes, 
                                “biological mysteries occur everywhere, even in 
                                the most urbanized landscapes on the face of the 
                                planet.” And they warrant more exploration. (<A 
                                style="COLOR: #0056b3" 
                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/3619105/bJSo6b64" 
                                target=_blank><I>Noema</I></A>)</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/3619106/bJSo6b64" 
                                target=_blank>Our Inequitable Power 
                                Grid</A></H1></B>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">Formerly 
                                redlined neighborhoods across the United States 
                                suffer from more frequent power outages, 
                                underpowered electrical services, and high 
                                energy bills. In these same neighborhoods, 
                                poverty often limits access to renewable energy. 
                                (<A style="COLOR: #0056b3" 
                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/3619107/bJSo6b64" 
                                target=_blank><I>Floodlight</I></A>)</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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Eating</A></H1></B>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px"><SPAN>Across 
                                the American “Broiler Belt,” chickens are raised 
                                in conditions that are bad for the birds, bad 
                                for the people who raise them, and bad the 
                                environment. Some Southern poultry farmers are 
                                looking for a better way forward. (<A 
                                style="COLOR: #0056b3" 
                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/3619109/bJSo6b64" 
                                target=_blank><I>The</I> </A></SPAN><SPAN><A 
                                style="COLOR: #0056b3" 
                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/3619109/bJSo6b64" 
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                                Southerner</I></A></SPAN><SPAN>)</SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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                                and public services, and a GDP drop of 12 
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                                country’s US terrorism designation only makes 
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