Archive: Apr 2012
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How catching salmon can save a forest
What does your favorite wild salmon have to do with a forest in Alaska? Quite a bit, actually.
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Why that corn-syrup-and-autism study leaves such a sour taste
The paper Grist highlighted constructs a Rube Goldberg-style house of cards that collapses when you take the most basic look at its data and assumptions.
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Autism and high-fructose corn syrup: A deeper look
Grist's editor discusses the furor around last week's post about a study that sought to tie the U.S.'s most popular industrial sweetener to increases in autism rates.
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A live chat with green-jobs guru Van Jones
Green economy pioneer Van Jones chatted with David Roberts and Grist readers. Check out a replay of the conversation.
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Would you like a bad farm bill — or a terrible one?
For food reformers, little has changed since the "Secret Farm Bill" process was exposed to the public last fall. But now the GOP-led House has turned their attention to food stamps and it remains to be seen whether Congress can agree on a bill in time.
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Watch the climate conversation run aground
There was a spirited debate on climate change in the Iowa legislature recently. The way the debate unfolded is quite revealing.
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President Obama edits out climate change from his Earth Day proclamation
You’ll be glad to know that in the last 12 months, that whole climate change problem went away. At least that’s the impression left from comparing President Obama’s 2012 Earth Day proclamation with the 2011 one.
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Modern day Moby Dick? Check out this super rare, all-white killer whale
Researchers recently spotted what is believed to be the only all-white adult orca whale in existence.
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‘Collective hypnosis or hysteria’ on natural gas
Renewable Energy Magazine has a fantastic two-part interview with Michael Liebreich, the founder of New Energy Finance. (Part one; part two.) I guess I’ve just gotten accustomed to reading stupid, ideological crap about clean energy, so when I run across an informed, balanced perspective, I get unreasonably excited. Anyway, read the whole thing, but there’s […]