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Climate change is ruining moose’s lives and then killing them
It sounds really terrible to be a moose right now.
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Supreme Court will hear challenge to EPA’s power-plant rules
Big polluters edged toward a legal victory Tuesday, when the conservative Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the Obama administration's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
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Rejoice, animal lovers: Oktoberfest goes vegan
For the first time in two centuries, the German celebration includes soy cutlets, fake pork, and vegan wine.
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BP negligent in Texas refinery leak but absolved of wrongdoing
A jury found that BP was negligent for allowing toxic chemicals to spew from a Texas refinery for 40 days. But the jurors ruled that the company's actions caused no harm.
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Your daily aww: Watch rescued seals flop back into the ocean
This video is proof not all reality shows are horrible.
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Yum! Climate change means more mercury in fish
Mercury makes its way up the food chain from itty bitty killifish to tuna to us! Truly the gift that keeps on giving.
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Pretty vacants: Urban communities fill empty lots with gardens, skate parks, and creative possibility
What do you get when techies and community activists team up to make better use of vacant lots? Urban farms, community gardens -- and perhaps a whiffle ball park?
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When spruce beetles attack!
Drought is making it much harder for trees to defend themselves against invading insects, says a new study.
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Why is WGBH Legitimizing David Koch’s Climate Change Denial?
Last Wednesday, more than 50 people gathered outside of WGBH — Boston’s public television station and the largest producer of national PBS television content — with 119,000 petition signatures calling on the station to drop David Koch from its board. Even Elmo was there (well, a local climate activist dressed up as Elmo), to say that a man who […]
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Norway’s massive oil wealth could be invested in renewables, “change the world”
Norway has more money than it knows what to do with. And while leaders figure out how they want to manage the nation’s roughly $790 billion public pension fund going forward, there’s real potential for an “unprecedented shift” in renewable energy investment. Norway’s enormous pension coffers, fat off the country’s offshore oil wealth, could ironically […]
