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Bizarre, troubling ‘suds tsunami’ in Nairobi, Kenya
It's even grosser than it looks.
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Netherlands may face lawsuit over climate change inaction
Despite public investments in sustainable infrastructure, activists are threatening the Dutch government with legal action over climate change.
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There’s not gonna be a carbon tax
Lots of people are talking about carbon taxes now, but without House Republican support it won't happen. David Roberts explains why climate hawks should cool their jets.
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Budweiser provided canned water for Sandy victims
This was particularly nice of them because it's so easy to make water jokes about their beer.
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Africa’s largest marine reserve will protect fish, but also make them into wusses
Last week, Mozambique (that's in East Africa, kids) declared more than 4,000 square miles of coastal waters a Marine Protected Area.
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Beautiful video asks: Why don’t we have more protection for our environmental rights?
Canada's squandering its reputation as a nice, progressive place to live by letting the oil industry mine oil sands.
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Obama faces first post-election climate test
For President Obama to come in and tell them and other Sandy victims that he cares more about the airline lobby than their well-being and the global climate would be an epic disappointment.
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Giant flamingo orgy will soon take place in Africa
Conditions are right in an alkaline lake in Tanzania for flamingos to have a big breeding season. We are rooting for them.
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Scientists can use satellites to track how much raw sewage Sandy deposited in our waterways
Satellites are letting scientists know what happened to all the sewage from Hurricane Sandy. Which we need to know about, even though it's uh, crappy news.
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A Policy That Unlocks Community Renewable Energy
Net metering is a common distributed renewable energy policy in the United States, allowing individuals to “turn back” their meter (and reduce their electric bill) by generating on-site electricity. But utility accounting systems typically prevent people from sharing the output from a single, common “community” solar or wind project. Virtual (or group or neighborhood) net […]
