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U.N. climate talks: Four countries behaving badly
Japan, Poland, Australia, and Canada are disgracing themselves at climate negotiations underway in Warsaw.
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Kauai plunges ahead with law targeting GMO farms
The local council overrides the mayor's veto, moving the island toward restrictions on genetically modified crops.
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What’s Wrong With Xcel’s Proposed Community Solar Program?
Fees and illegal caps, for starters. After the state’s solar energy law passed in 2013, Minnesota’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, was required to create a program to support the development of community solar energy. Since 3 in 4 people can’t have solar on their own rooftop (because they rent, or have a nice shade […]
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Deforestation makes for a super-depressing time-lapse video
Ready to see 888,000 square miles of trees vanish over 12 years? (Sob.)
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Entire Texan town evacuated after pipeline explosion
A Chevron pipeline exploded on Thursday, sending up huge flames and plumes of smoke and forcing some 700 people out of their homes.
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Zebras are finally taking their revenge on humans
The first volley: A zebra at the National Zoo bit a zoo staffer this morning, who had to be rushed to the hospital.
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Lab-grown meat cookbook includes meat paint and edible scarves
Scientists served the first in vitro burger in August. This cookbook wants you to think long and hard about the implications.
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Coal summit in Warsaw confronted by climate activists – and science
As the World Coal Summit kicked off in Warsaw today, activists and scientists sought to remind the negotiators at the UN climate talks that the coal industry’s business plans are incompatible with global efforts to address climate change. Greenpeace activists held a banner on the roof of the Polish Ministry of Economy, where the coal […]
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Ask Umbra: Ack. There are stickers all over my fruit!
A reader complains about all the stickers on his compost. Umbra breaks the issue down.
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Small planet, big appetites: How to feed a growing world
"Consumed" author Sarah Elton wants a food system that will allow us to do more than survive. Here, she lays out how farming can make the environment, and the people in it, thrive.
