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Cowboys, hunters, and enviros team up to fight natural gas drilling
In Colorado's beautiful Thompson Divide, locals are trying to stop drilling before it begins.
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Utilities to battery-powered solar: Get off our lawn
As utilities see how distributed solar, aided by new storage tech, can chip away at their monopolies (and profits), they're fighting back.
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At Chez Dumpster, every misshapen veggie gets its due
An art project serves up gourmet meals, made from produce that would otherwise go to waste, in a setting that can only be called trashy.
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How hot will future summers be in your city?
A new tool lets you see how hot it's going to get in your neck of the woods if we don't do anything about climate change.
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Meet the Andy Griffith who’s going after fracking polluters
In Texas, some small-town sleuths on the illegally ditched-sofa beat are stumbling on big-time dumping of toxic fracking waste.
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Billions of oil dollars will buy you the largest mall in the world
World's largest indoor amusement park included.
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![Firefighters battle the so-called Poinsettia Fire in Carlsbad, California May 14, 2014.]()
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House Republicans to EPA: “We’ll take your money and give it to fires!”
The GOP wants to cut EPA funding and block the agency from regulating CO2, while steering some of that money to firefighting efforts.
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This weed is taking over the planet. On the upside, it’s delicious
Palmer amaranth, a.k.a. pigweed, is defying all our efforts to beat it back. Why not eat it instead?
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Is the Anthropocene a world of hope or a world of hurt?
For better or worse, we're running this planet now. What's wrong with saying we might be able to pull that off? A conversation between Andrew Revkin and Clive Hamilton.
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Water supply key to outcome of conflicts in Iraq and Syria, experts warn
Security analysts in London and Baghdad say control of rivers and dams has become a major tactical weapon for ISIS.
