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U.N. climate talks: Four countries behaving badly
Japan, Poland, Australia, and Canada are disgracing themselves at climate negotiations underway in Warsaw.
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Kauai plunges ahead with law targeting GMO farms
The local council overrides the mayor's veto, moving the island toward restrictions on genetically modified crops.
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What’s Wrong With Xcel’s Proposed Community Solar Program?
Fees and illegal caps, for starters. After the state’s solar energy law passed in 2013, Minnesota’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, was required to create a program to support the […]
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Coal summit in Warsaw confronted by climate activists – and science
As the World Coal Summit kicked off in Warsaw today, activists and scientists sought to remind the negotiators at the UN climate talks that the coal industry’s business plans are […]
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Word games are misleading the American public about fracking
Pro-drilling politicians often muddle the debate on natural gas. Here's a clearer look at a familiar talking point.
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Humane meat at a rest stop? Good to Go is not a mirage
Believe in miracles -- humane meat and highways CAN go hand in hand.
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Meet the computer geek who took on Ken Cucinelli — and won
Michael Mann didn't come to politics. Politics came to him.
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Obama’s departed climate chief pushed him toward action
During her time at the White House, Heather Zichal helped put in place new fuel-economy standards, funding for renewables, and the president's big climate plan.
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Could Carl Sagan have defeated climate denial?
Celebrating the great science communicator ... while being realistic about how much things have changed since the days of the Cosmos series.
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Look who’s eating your plastic now: A whole unprecedented ecosystem
We already had the biosphere and the atmosphere, but now we get the plastisphere, too.