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Mini-mansions are all the rage
Both industrial designers and industrious teens alike are engineering tiny paragons of sustainable living. Behold some of our recent favorites.
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Post-Sandy, green groups at loggerheads with plans to rebuild Jersey’s boardwalk empire
How to rebuild all those destroyed promenades? With trees cut from the rainforest, thus contributing to even more superstorms, natch.
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Major Scientific Group Drops Tar Sands Research
(Re-published with permission from DeSmog Canada) The Helmholtz Association of Research Centres, a major German scientific body with more than 30,000 researchers and US$4.4 billion in annual funding, has dropped out of a joint Alberta tar sands project over fears that the project was damaging the institution’s reputation. In April 2011, the Province of Alberta invested $25 […]
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Farmland prices soar — along with farm debt
Never mind the drought: When the farmland price bubble pops, America's farmers could be under water.
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Thanks for the oil, Iraq, here’s some cancer
Depleted uranium from U.S. munitions is suspected of causing a huge spike in birth defects and all kinds of cancers in Iraq.
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Farmers markets are growing, but farmers’ incomes are not
The small-scale local food movement isn't paying off for small-scale local food producers.
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Two reasons climate change is not like other environmental problems
Commentators often think about climate change as an "environmental problem," but it's very different from traditional environmental problems, in two important ways.
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Summer rains in Southwest arriving late because of climate change
Delays to the monsoon season in America's southwestern desert states could hurt farmers, cities, and ecosystems.
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Natural-gas liquid is gushing near a Colorado creek, and nobody can figure out how to stop it
More than 60,000 gallons of unidentified hydrocarbon gunk have leaked into the ground near a gas processing plant, and more just keeps on leaking.
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Why in the world are so many manatees dying?
Manatees are dying off both Florida coasts, and by God we want the culprit brought to justice! (It's probably us.)
