U.S. House votes to ban uranium mining near Grand Canyon | Arizona Mirror

The U.S. House approved legislation Wednesday to permanently ban uranium and other hardrock mining near the Grand Canyon.  The bill from Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, passed by a vote of 236-185. 

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A Hidden Cave In Arizona Has Sparkling Blue Water | Narcity

A highlight of our year is finding hidden gems that are in plain sight! There's a hidden cave in Arizona that has some of the bluest and clearest water we've ever seen. This sapphire oasis can be found near a popular hotspot, making it an amazing find.

Ukraine Showdown: Why Trump And Biden Are Facing Off | Collective Evolution

The tussle between Democrats calling for Trump’s impeachment and Republicans calling for an investigation into Joe Biden’s influence-peddling in the Ukraine is just the latest act in the never-ending saga of American political theatre.

Planting Billions of Trees Is the 'Best Climate Change Solution Available Today,' Study Finds | EcoWatch

Planting more than 500 billion trees could remove around 25 percent of existing carbon from the atmosphere, a new study has found. What's more: there's enough space to do i

John Lennon's "Imagine" Was Turned Into a Comic Strip, and the Result is Incredibly Beautiful. | The Unbounded Spirit

What would the world be like if everyone decided to let go of competition and start collaborating with one another so as to live in harmony and peace? I know, that’s a quite difficult thing to imagine, considering the crazy world we currently live in, with violence making its presence almost everywhere. But illustrator Pablo Stanley gave it a good try, and below you’ll have the opportunity to see one of his most well-known comic strips (and, personally, my favorite one), based on John Lennon’s popular song “Imagine.”

7 billion conscious human beings would create a very different world | Energy Therapy

People are worried that with an ever increasing population we won’t have enough land to live on… that we won’t have enough food, or clean, drinkable water in the very near future… Yet, this is truly a matter of consciousness! 7 billion conscious, awake human beings would create a VERY different world to the state of our world today.

8 Life Lessons From A 2000-Year-Old Guidebook – The Yoga Sutras | Collective Evolution

Yoga is something that continues to gain a tremendous amount of popularity throughout the world as we move through 2015 and beyond. It’s not a religion, and it is used and practiced by theists, atheists, and everyone in between. There are two major components of yoga that are now being practiced in the West today: physical fitness through stretching (asana), and mental fitness through the practice of meditation (dhyana).