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Want a climate deal? Rich nations will have to pay up to help poor ones
Developing countries are demanding that they get help cutting emissions and adapting to climate change, plus compensation for damage already done.
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A decade of monster hurricanes
Check out these dramatic images of seven record-setting hurricanes from the last decade.
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Climate Change Driving Weather off the Charts
By Janet Larsen Meteorologists are calling the typhoon that slammed into the Philippines with 195-mile-an-hour winds on November 8, 2013, the most powerful tropical storm to make landfall on record. Super Typhoon Haiyan had gusts reaching 235 miles per hour and a storm surge swelling as high as 20 feet, so the destruction it left […]
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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 development of community solar energy. Since 3 in 4 people can’t have solar on their own rooftop (because they rent, or have a nice shade […]
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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 incompatible with global efforts to address climate change. Greenpeace activists held a banner on the roof of the Polish Ministry of Economy, where the coal […]
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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.
