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Alaskan tribes given tiny amount of cash for climate change resilience
The money will be used for climate adaptation education -- because $8 million won't be nearly enough to protect against climate disasters.
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URGENT: MUSCLED TORSOS ACROSS AMERICA IN DANGER
Do you care about the bros in your life? Perhaps you are interested in a protein shake only slightly less ridiculous than the standard ones!
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Natural gas drilling is causing earthquakes in Europe too
Shell and ExxonMobil ignored for decades that drilling in Europe’s largest gas field was triggering quakes.
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Happy birthday, Papa Climate Change!
Celebrate the birthday of Svante Arrhenius, the guy who first figured out that all this fossil fuel burning might screw us over someday.
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Baltimore youth get another big win in fight against incinerator
A Baltimore County committee voted to end its contract with the company planning to build a waste-to-energy facility.
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Gentrification might be real, but it’s the least of Chicago’s worries
For Chicago's depressed black neighborhoods, yuppie invasions are more manageable than chronic problems of inequality and ineffective policy.
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Understanding Obama’s suckiness on climate
The president has been pretty good about reducing demand for dirty energy, and pretty bad about increasing its supply. Why?
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Are all K-Cup-style coffeemakers totally terrible?
A reader wonders whether single-serving coffee can be green. Umbra brews up an answer.
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All the best science experiments involve dynamite
Equipped with plenty of dynamite and seismometers, these geologists are major badasses.
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New Yorkers’ review of New York is actually a poignant portrait of a city
Whether you're Jay-Z or Taylor Swift, the way you experience New York can change entirely from block to block.