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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.
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The larger the city, the more it pollutes, right?
NASA tries to answer the question.
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7 adorable animals imperiled by the Keystone XL pipeline
The Interior Department says that, contrary to State Department findings, the pipeline could wreak havoc on wildlife along its proposed route.
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By 2050, flooding could cost the world’s coastal cities over $60 billion a year
That’s only if cities make significant investments to mitigate risk. If we do nothing, flooding costs could soar to $1 trillion.
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Climate change and “environmental journalism”
Climate change is not an "environmental problem" and it can't be adequately covered by the shrinking ranks of environmental journalists.
