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How climate change could wipe out Western forests

Thanks to climate change, wildfire season is getting longer and more severe. In the Southwest, forests are on course to disappear altogether.

Sarah Garland Climate & Energy

5 tips for handling climate skeptics in 2013

While the New Year brings with it a sense of optimism, for those of us in the climate change business it means another year competing against any schnook with money […]

Mike Bellamente Uncategorized

After Nebraska setback, greens regroup on Keystone XL

Will Nebraska become a real-life example of losing a battle to win the war?

Tim McDonnell Climate & Energy

Oh no, there’s a dolphin stranded in the Gowanus Canal!

Get out of there, dolphin. You are not pollution. You are a dolphin.

Jess Zimmerman Uncategorized

Friday music blogging: The Wooden Sky

I had just gotten done compiling my best of 2012 music mix when I stumbled across the new album by The Wooden Sky, a band out of Toronto. (I’m telling […]

David Roberts Uncategorized

Dung beetles use the stars for navigation

The insects have an uncanny ability to roll their dung balls in very straight lines, away from the dung heap where they collected the feces.

Sarah Laskow Uncategorized

Adorable bottle-nosed dolphin saved by friendly diver

A group of divers were going on a nighttime swim with manta rays. They got so much more.

Sarah Miller Uncategorized

Oak Park test drives a blackout-proof, solar-powered smart grid

Our infrastructure should be as smart as our phones, says Oak Park, Ill., Sustainability Manager K.C. Poulos.

Darby Minow Smith Cities

The Department of Energy wants to sell radioactive metal for scrap

The Department of Energy wants to sell 14,000 tons of radioactive scrap metal to manufacturers who will then make radioactive stuff out it. Seems like a poor use of recycling.