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Will South Florida be the shortest-lived state in the union?
The mayor of South Miami is fed up with Florida's refusal to address sea-level rise, which threatens to wipe out the southern end of the state.
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![Coal truck in China]()
![Coal truck in China]()
China’s coal use is actually dropping for the first time this century
It's a spot of good news in an otherwise gloomy news-scape.
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![Bette Midler]()
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Bette Midler knows the plastic we should REALLY be worried about (it’s not surgery)
Look who's calling attention to ocean plastics now -- the Divine Miss M herself!
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Pumpkins’ biggest threat isn’t Mischief Night or Billy Corgan
California's neverending drought spares no plant, animal, or holiday tradition. Its latest victim: pumpkins.
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Watch dinosaurs defend the Gates Foundation’s farm policy
Some food activists are not happy with the Gates Foundation's programs to help farmers. But why? We boil the issue down in a new video.
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![Claim the Sky]()
![Claim the Sky]()
These teens are taking their climate lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court
The premise of the case: The sky belongs to everyone, so governments must protect it.
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![Blue Mountain beers]()
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Craft brewers join the fight against natural gas pipelines
At the base of the Blue Ridge, a battle is brewing over a massive pipeline designed to pull shale gas to the Atlantic Coast.
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We were promised methane regulations! Where are our methane regulations?!
The U.S. oil-and-gas boom is dumping oodles of methane into the atmosphere, and so far, the feds haven't gotten meaningful regulations together.
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Turns out coral reefs could help mend human bones
Good thing we figured that out before we wiped them out completely.
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This could be the hottest year on record, again
The first nine months of 2014 broke the heat record, and now we're on track for this whole year to be the warmest ever.
