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Alaska’s latest climate worries: Massive wildfires and gushing glaciers
Alaska faces more severe and frequent wildfires in the years to come. Meanwhile, its Mendenhall Glacier keeps releasing sudden surges of water.
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As citrus disease spreads, government cryopreserves tree roots
With a bacterial disease threatening the country's citrus industry, USDA scientists are flash-freezing tree roots in case they need to be regrown in the future.
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Historic lawsuit alleges ag-gag is unconstitutional
Ag-gag laws bar people from recording what happens at factory farms. Utah's ag-gag law is being challenged in the first lawsuit of its kind.
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The Community Solar ‘Holy Grail’?
Has a Carbondale, CO, company found the ‘holy grail’ of community renewable energy projects? In this podcast with with Paul Spencer, President and founder of the Clean Energy Collective (CEC) in Carbondale, CO, we explored how CEC is pioneering the process of delivering clean power-generation through medium-scale (mostly solar) facilities that are collectively owned by participating […]
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Fossil Fuel Use Pushes Carbon Dioxide Emissions into Dangerous Territory
By Emily E. Adams Increasing global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat-trapping gas, are pushing the world into dangerous territory, closing the window of time to avert the worst consequences of higher temperatures, such as melting ice and rising seas. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have […]
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Is humanity smarter than a protozoan?
New work on the Genuine Progress Indicator shows that global GDP is increasing, but global economic welfare no longer is. Can our species stop expanding before it hits limits?
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This hot 37-year-old kite-surfed from France to Ireland
If Bruno Sroka can kite-surf for more than 16 hours straight, so can you! Right?
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Scientists are building electronics that dissolve when you’re done with them
The problem with building dissolving technology, of course, is making sure it doesn't dissolve while you're still using it.
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One more reason to be terrified by ticks
New research has confirmed that a new virus -- the Heartland virus, which infected two Missouri farmers in 2009 -- is carried by ticks.
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Less than 1 percent of tar-sands environmental infractions penalized
A new report out today finds that enforcement of environmental infractions by companies in the Alberta oil sands are 17 times lower than similar infractions reported to the United State’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The report [PDF], authored by the environmental nonprofit Global Forest Watch, looked at more than 15 years of data on recorded environmental mishaps by oil […]
