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Most big countries have climate laws
But there are some notable exceptions. Ahem.
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Slope & change: The ski industry struggles to get its act together on global warming
Business leaders say they're serious about taking the climate fight to Washington. But judging from the friends they're making there, global warming isn't their most pressing concern.
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Millions of dolphins could be hurt as oil industry blasts along East Coast
The Obama administration has tentatively OK'd industry plans to conduct seismic tests in Atlantic waters. That could screw over marine mammals.
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The week in GIFs: Cheese snacks, RuPaul, and an Amish paradise
Green news from a motley gang of animated eccentrics.
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Pot-flavored condoms keep you and the planet happy
"Cannadoms" combine your two favorite things: toking and not making a baby.
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In “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the frontlines of a dying world
The New Yorker writer talks mass extinctions, climate inaction, and whether there's any hope (short answer: no. long answer: probably not).
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People-friendly streets: They’re not just for big cities anymore
A bill in the Senate promotes "complete streets" that are more accessible to walkers and cyclists, and it appeals far beyond liberal urban areas.
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Obama has a good transportation plan. Now we just need to raise the gas tax to pay for it.
Enviros and smart-growth advocates are praising Obama's proposed transportation bill. Too bad funding is such a hurdle.
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America’s first carbon-trading program can boast some impressive numbers
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative collected about $1 billion from 2009 to 2012 and is expected to save $2 billion in lowered energy bills.
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IKEA is in trouble for cutting down 600-year-old trees
Logging subsidiary Swedwood had its forestry certificate pulled in Karelia, Russia.
