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Should I be drinking local or sustainable beer?
Which to buy -- beer that's made close by or suds brewed with green energy but then shipped cross-country? Umbra cuts through the foam.
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Could a California labor ruling drive Uber under?
A labor commission rules that Uber drivers should be treated as employees -- and casts a big question-mark over the entire "Uber-for-this-and-that" market.
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![Actor Mark Ruffalo speaks during a protest against hydraulic fracturing outside the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York November 30, 2011.]()
![Actor Mark Ruffalo speaks during a protest against hydraulic fracturing outside the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York November 30, 2011.]()
Mark Ruffalo talks climate change and what you can do about it
"We don’t need a superhero, but maybe we do need more people to get angry and turn that into action."
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Jeb Bush joins Santorum in hating on Pope Francis’ climate encyclical
Republicans, the fossil fuel industry, and the Heartland Institute are working to discredit the pope's encyclical -- even before its release.
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Go ahead and eat your Nutella — it’s the ramen that’s bad on palm oil
It's hard to keep track of the heroes and villains in the fight to save rainforests. A ranking of companies that use palm oil offers some guidance.
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Look at this trippy map of all your climate-related Google searches
The visualization shows how our everyday climate questions differ around the world.
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Tell women about birth control that works — and they’ll choose birth control that works
We bring this to you straight from the "no shit" department.
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![A Chinese worker walks in the solar modules of a newly installed 100MW photovoltaic on-grid power project on July 21, 2010 in Dunhuang of China's northwest Gansu Province.]()
![A Chinese worker walks in the solar modules of a newly installed 100MW photovoltaic on-grid power project on July 21, 2010 in Dunhuang of China's northwest Gansu Province.]()
China built a giant solar field in a desert
From space, China's massive new solar farm is an impressive sight.
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Chipotle’s new tortillas could be huge news for farmers
The fast-food company is teaming up with the Bread Lab to reinvent the mass-produced tortilla.
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![New Delhi, India - November 12, 2012. Daily street life in the early morning during extreme smog conditions.]()
![New Delhi, India - November 12, 2012. Daily street life in the early morning during extreme smog conditions.]()
Air pollution in China and India may be worse than we realize
Improving air quality in these rapidly growing countries may be necessary just to keep the mortality rate steady -- let alone decrease it.
