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Enough is Enough: Coal Pollution Spills Reveal a Water Safety Crisis
When it comes to rivers and clean, safe water, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Hundreds of thousands of people have learned that the hard way over […]
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Enviros threaten to sit out election over Keystone. Don’t believe them.
Green activists tend to be engaged and educated people who also care about gay rights, abortion rights, and other issues that might compel them to the polls.
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Beyond a reasonable drought: California’s dry spell could be the worst in 500 years
And why it's too late for the rain.
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Food desert mirage: Better groceries may not bring better health
A hard look at the effort to bring fresh food to the urban poor suggests that it may not be an effective way to improve their lives.
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There’s no “warming pause” — trade winds are burying heat in the Pacific
New research helps explain why excess heat is being absorbed into the ocean: big-ass winds.
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Good news: Most Americans want climate action. Now for the bad news …
Clear majorities are concerned about climate change and favor action to mitigate it, a new poll finds. But Republican politicians just don't care.
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Of pipelines, lunch counters, and warheads: Effective protest requires concrete goals
The policy wonks are missing the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline fight as a rallying point.
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Train of thoughtlessness: Proposed rail line puts NOLA neighborhood on the wrong track
Locals are railing against a proposal that would move train tracks away from a well-heeled suburban neighborhood and into a poor urban one.
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Why growing chocolate in Mexico is an act of resistance
In Mexico, cocoa crops have nearly been wiped out. Watch a farmer and a chocolatier fight to bring it back.
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Climate Movement on the Move
“The fight to stop KXL will be one of the defining battles of our generation. A victory here will mark the close of the old carbon era, and the start […]
