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A growing appetite for local food sends us back to our root cellars
Don’t want to buy carrots grown in Timbuktu? Good news: Local farmers may have a few tucked away underground.
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What kind of environmentalist are you? This time, you decide
A couple of weeks ago, we posted a quiz to help you find out what kind of environmentalist you are. Here's how you answered -- and who we left out.
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Can we have our sustainable seafood and eat it too?
Ecolabels from certification programs like the Marine Stewardship Council align market interests with sustainability initiatives -- but can you trust what’s on the label?
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Liz Cheney scorns climate action, just like her dad
Dick Cheney's eldest claims that the EPA and the Clean Water Act pose "a much greater threat" to America than global warming.
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Guess which two words can make your nonpartisan education reforms a hot potato?
Some states think that the new national standards for the science curriculum go way too far when it comes to teaching kids about climate change.
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U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels break trade rules, WTO says
Efforts to protect U.S. panel manufacturers from cheap Chinese imports have run afoul of the World Trade Organization.
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America’s largest reservoir is hitting new record lows every day
The drought and overuse of Colorado River water has led to an epic decline in water levels at Lake Mead.
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Another court victory for EPA — this time on mountaintop-removal rules
The EPA is well within its rights to regulate mountaintop-removal coal mining, a federal appeals court decided.
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Is it hot in here? Yes, and it’s killing us
Here’s some uplifting news: Turns out that today, you are more likely to die from a heat wave than at any point in the last 40 years!
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Oklahoma hit by eight earthquakes in two days. Is the fracking industry to blame?
Last year, Oklahoma's quake activity was more than 5,000 percent greater than normal. Underground injection of fracking wastewater might be the cause.
