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Warsaw walkout: Big green groups bail on U.N. climate talks
For the first time ever, environmental groups have staged a mass walkout of a U.N. climate summit.
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Ask Umbra: Are my newfangled lightbulbs making my house cold?
A reader wonders if those old, inefficient incandescents were actually keeping his flat toasty. Umbra sheds a little light on the subject.
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How one small community is going big on solar
The Farmers Electric Co-op in Iowa is gearing up to build the state's biggest solar array. “It keeps our money local,” says the co-op manager.
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Nuclear industry scores a big win, but still no solution for nuclear waste
The feds have been ordered to stop collecting $750 million in annual fees for a nuclear waste dump. That's because they have no plans to build a nuclear waste dump.
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Super Euros: Top 10 climate-change-fighting countries are all in Europe
The U.S. is No. 40 on a new list that ranks nations by how much they're doing to stave off global warming.
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These works of art are made out of dead bees
Artist Sarah Hatton collects dead bees, but we promise it's not some sick weird thing.
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Foldable helmet gets rid of your last excuse for not protecting your poor, delicate skull
You can bring it with you in the morning, thinking that you might want it later, and not be particularly inconvenienced if you end up not using it.
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Just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions
Chevron, Exxon, and BP are among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age.
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Washington’s GMO labeling flop, two weeks later: What it means
The food industry unleashed a flurry of anti-labeling ads, but they only worked because support for labeling is broad but shallow.
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Warsaw warning: World on pace to miss already awful climate targets
Since putting some emissions reduction pledges (don’t call them commitments!) down on paper after the climate conference in Copenhagen, countries have had nearly four years to start building policies to meet the goals. Would it surprise you terribly to find out that those pledges — paltry though they were — aren’t being met? This morning, […]
