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Senate votes to keep subsidizing flood insurance in flood-prone areas
Climate change and fiscal prudence be damned.
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The full Monte: Beloved Montana artist makes bold statement on climate and coal
Monte Dolack has been painting the animals of Montana for the last 40 years. In a new show, Dolack turns a critical eye to coal.
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Which is more likely to drive people from their homes — floods or heat waves?
In some areas of Pakistan, it's the heat waves, though they get less attention from the media and international aid organizations.
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Save the bees by refrigerating them
Mason bees aren't your typical honeybees or bumblebees -- they don't sting, they're not particularly social, and females make individual nests in tubes.
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London’s newest urban farm is underground
Pea shoots, arugula, mizuna, chives, mustard leaf, radish, basil, and more, grown hydroponically in the tunnels under LED lights.
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It hasn’t rained this much in England since 1767, or maybe since ever
January's rains and floods were the worst on record -- which is just the sort of thing climate-change models have been forecasting.
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These colorful maps show what your city really looks like without a car
Just click any point on the map, and colors pool out around it -- like a heat map, but for time spent on buses or subways.
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Ocean temperatures spiked in 2013
The next time somebody bends your ear about a supposed "global warming pause," just show them these two graphs.
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Natural Gas isn’t a Bridge Fuel, it’s a Gateway Drug
In his State of the Union, President Obama added to the conventional wisdom that supplanting coal with natural gas will act as a bridge toward a climate solution. Unfortunately, gas is more of a gateway drug than a bridge to a clean energy future. 1) It’s still a major greenhouse gas. Sure, natural gas is […]
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Selling homemade food is now legal in California
Rejoice! Your fledgling cupcake business doesn't need to rent commercial kitchen space!
