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35,000 walruses start their own climate march
Shrinking sea ice forces walruses to flop ashore en masse.
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Why D.C. is doing food waste reclamation right
How D.C. Central Kitchen is building a better food system.
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Oyster prices could skyrocket if we don’t change our shellfish ways
That's the bottom line according to a scientist at the largest producer of farmed shellfish in the country.
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The dried-up Aral Sea is now a post-apocalyptic playground
Thanks to drought and Soviet-era waterworks, the Aral Sea is drying up to a crisp. But at least kids have cool shipwrecks to play on!
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Here’s one idea for taxing the rich and making housing more affordable
A newly proposed "pied-à-terre tax" in New York City would apply to luxury homes owned by people who don’t actually live in the city.
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Google Street View brings the world’s coral reefs to you
Even if you failed SCUBA certification, you can visit the world's coral reefs -- minus all the water and animals that might slime or sting or bite you.
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Why Washington is doing pizza right
How Seattle's Humble Pie is building a better food system.
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150 hurricanes later, these island people can teach us a few things about surviving climate change
The Gullah/Geechee Nation sits on a 35-mile-long string of islands on the Atlantic Seaboard. When storms hit, these folks take the brunt of it.
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Climate change is driving heat waves around the world
A new report pins the blame for a recent spate of heat waves on human-caused climate change -- but for the California drought, the evidence is murkier.
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This lobbying shop is so dirty even oil companies want out
Occidental Petroleum is leaving ALEC because its positions on climate change are too extreme.
