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Four new ozone-destroying gases found sneaking around the stratosphere
Three new CFCs and one new HCFC turned up when no one was looking, but scientists still don't know where these human-made ozone-eaters are coming from.
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Oreos were just the subject of international espionage
A former DuPont employee stole the recipe for a whitening chemical, almost giving China the secret to Oreo filling.
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Can a Novel City-Utility Partnership Green a Big City Grid?
In pursuit of a cleaner energy future last August, the city of Minneapolis came to the brink of putting a city-owned utility on the ballot. It was the culmination of a grassroots effort to get cleaner energy and local investment from the city’s energy utilities. It won’t be a city-owned utility on the agenda this […]
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Bogus, brah, climate change is stealing sick rides
Global warming will mean fewer big waves for Australia's Bondi Beach.
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Dyin’ to live: Biggie Smalls and the silent killers in urban America
The Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down 17 years ago. But if he hadn’t taken a bullet, pollution and disease might have done the job instead.
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It takes HOW much water to make Greek yogurt?!
Dairy products require a whole lot of water -- and many of them come from drought-ridden California.
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Big Ben could get covered in solar panels
You can’t turn back the hands of time, but you CAN make them greener.
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Are women really a “secret weapon” when it comes to fighting climate change?
SHH, half of the population is a secret! Maybe that's why we don't have enough of a say in major climate and energy decisions.
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Grainspotting: Farmers get desperate as coal and oil take over the rails
What could be more American than a gang rivalry between nonrenewable energy and wheat, our nation’s two great loves?
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Beef could get more expensive because bulls are literally freezing their nuts off
Cattle farmers’ two least-favorite words: scrotal frostbite.
