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Here’s an astonishingly simple trick that could keep you from killing a cyclist
Change which hand you use to open the car door.
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Over a million cockroaches escape from cockroach farm
Why would anyone want more than a million cockroaches?
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Carbon targets, carbon taxes, and the search for Archimedes’ lever
There's no perfect solution to the climate problem, no one policy that will move the world. It's going to be a long, ugly slog. It's healthier just to accept that.
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9 scary facts about the Yosemite fire
Just another wildfire? Nope. This one's different. Here's why.
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Syngenta to take a continent to court to upend pesticide ban
Syngenta is suing the European Commission to let it continue selling neonic insecticides that kill pollinating bees.
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Marching on DC for Voting Rights, Racial Justice and Climate Action
On April 4, 1967, exactly a year before he was killed, Dr. King named ‘materialism’ as one of the deadly triplets afflicting America: ‘When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.’ “At that point, he […]
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Non-panel costs make a bigger difference as solar energy gets cheap
Last week’s graphic on the impact of local permitting on the cost of solar power was a big hit, so here’s a follow-up on “soft costs,” the expenses in a solar installation (including permitting) that are not the solar module. The chart compares the soft costs in the U.S. to Germany (thanks to LBNL’s analysis), […]
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Fears for seabirds as global warming affects coastline
A new study warns of a threat to U.K. wildlife as rising sea levels and changing weather patterns transform coastlines.
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Is climate change humanity’s greatest-ever risk management failure?
Humans are very good at managing risks, except when it comes to the greatest risk we've faced -- climate change.
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Is Al Jazeera America going to change the way networks cover climate change?
On its first day of broadcasting, Al Jazeera America devoted 30 minutes to climate change.
