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‘Sexist, ageist and jealous’ CBS’s Leslie Stahl degraded online for asking if 80-year-old Nancy Pelosi had a successor in Congress

January 12, 2021 GIL

CBS ‘60 Minutes’ reporter Leslie Stahl found herself under fire online from the fans of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after asking...

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Restoring degraded tropical forests generates big carbon gains

August 14, 2020 GIL

Dipterocarp seeds are collected in primary forest and grown in nurseries to provide sufficient planting material for large-scale restoration efforts....

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