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America’s first climate refugees: “It’s happening now … The village is sinking”
Residents of Newtok, Alaska, know they must evacuate, but who will pay the $130 million cost of moving them?
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Macklemore credits Seattle’s park system with launching his rap career
Want more rappers? Make more parks.
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Minnesota’s Landmark Clean Energy Standard Charts Course Beyond Dirty Energy
Minnesota energy has begun a new chapter. Minnesota has taken a first step in outlining the next big leap forward in the state’s sustainable energy future. Pushed by more than 60 environmental, labor, business, youth, and faith groups, the jobs omnibus bill — expected to be signed by Governor Mark Dayton — includes a Clean Energy […]
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California grocery chain turns food waste into electricity
Kroger has plans to feed food waste to bacteria, where it will be anaerobically digested in a vat to release methane to create energy.
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Take a photo of a glacier — it’ll last longer
Glaciers contain a tiny share of the world's land ice, but their rapid melting is contributing to nearly one-third of the world's sea-level rise.
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Harvard researchers, on road to useful discoveries, instead make tiny chemical flowers
Scientists at Harvard can make teeny tiny flowers out of chemicals. No, they can't do the flowers for your wedding. Unless everyone you know is invisible to the naked eye, too.
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Let’s Not Trawl a National Treasure
Alaska’s Bering Sea is home to one of the most remarkable places in the world, “the Grand Canyons of the Sea.” These canyons are over a mile and a half deep and home to fish, crab, skates, endangered seals, orcas, and humpback whales. It’s a truly remarkable ecosystem that starts with the fragile corals and […]
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Frackers get their own clothing line
The latest in fashion? Clothing that keeps you safe from fire. They're calling it frackwear.
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Draft fed rules would let frackers do whatever they want, but they’re still not happy
Environmentalists were dismayed by draft fracking rules released a year ago, but hoped the administration would tighten them up in the next round. The opposite happened.
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Moniz confirmed as energy secretary, McCarthy’s EPA nomination advances
The Senate confirmed Ernest Moniz as the new energy secretary, and Gina McCarthy's nomination as EPA administrator cleared a committee.
