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The State of Our Climate-Ravaged Union
When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address on February 12th, he’ll be addressing a nation that is being ravaged by climate disasters. Since the president last stood before Congress, climate impact after climate impact has struck the country, from last summer’s record-shattering heat wave to the intense blizzard that swept through the […]
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Obama’s Legacy, the Climate Rally, and What It Means for Coal
My daughter Hazel is no stranger to rallies and public hearings. I’ve taken her to all sorts of events, because it’s her future that’s at stake…and sometimes because no babysitters are available. But one event I am very excited to bring her to is the upcoming Forward on Climate rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, […]
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Please do feed the polar bears (or they’ll die)
With sea ice vanishing faster than a fish slipping down a hungry seal's throat, humans may have to feed the polar bears if we want them to survive.
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Here’s the depressing reality of train travel in America
It's no secret that the Northeast Corridor line is the system's most popular, but you can get a sense of how much more used it is than any other bit of the system.
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We are losing our minds over this tiny pig and his tiny wheelchair
Chris P. Bacon is a four-pound piglet on wheels and we love him and are never going to stop watching these videos.
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These ‘God Made a Farmer’ parody ads are much, much better than the real thing
As you may have heard, God created farmers, heart-moving rural imagery, and Dodge Rams. But did you know that God also created Monsanto, farm subsidies, and factory farms?
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New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilizations
By Lester R. Brown The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new […]
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Hurricane Sandy didn’t kill NYC’s rats — it just made them move into luxury apartments
Extermination companies have gotten so many complaints about rat infestations they can hardly keep up.
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China is getting serious about taming coal
The most worrisome energy trend in the world is rising coal consumption in China. But Chinese officials have announced an ambitious new plan to curb that growth.
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Clean Energy Continues to Break Records, Lead the Way
Here are two headlines from the past week that blew me away (no pun intended): #1- Wind was the top new energy source to come online in 2012. #2- “Renewable-energy capacity in the U.S. almost doubled from 2009 to 2012, helping reduce the nation’s carbon-dioxide emissions last year to the lowest since 1994…” With every […]
