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Farmers hope to plow the way for sustainable U.S. hemp
Farmers in Colorado, Kentucky, and Virginia want to plant hemp, federal government be damned.
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Broad support and $1 will get a pol a cup of coffee
Public support for action on climate change keeps increasing -- but nothing will happen without a loud, active, well-funded faction threatening to punish intransigent politicians at the ballot box.
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Oh no, the Doomsday Clock didn’t change at all
Despite our inexorably advancing toward massive climate upheaval, the archaic Doomsday Clock stayed at 11:55.
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California’s nutty farmland values are spiking
An overseas appetite for California almonds and pistachios has sent farm values soaring.
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More Hill staff go on to lobby for the oil industry, because this is how politics works
Relationships are the name of the game. And Big Oil knows how to play the game.
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Here’s that squid porn you ordered
This daring squid porno finally answers some questions about how deep-sea squid mate. (They bone upside down so the male doesn't get eaten.)
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Please enjoy/run in fear from this terrifyingly high-quality video of bees
It's essentially the closest you're gonna get to sticking your head inside a beehive, with slightly less chance of being stung.
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Americans like nature so much they spend more on outdoor recreation than on gas
An outdoors industry association says that we spend about $646 billion dollars every year on apparel, equipment, accessories, food, transportation, lodging and so forth.
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2012, the hottest year in U.S. history, was one of the coldest years this century globally
Only one year pre-2000 was hotter than 2012, the tenth-hottest in history.
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What Theda Skocpol gets right about the cap-and-trade fight
In a comprehensive account of the cap-and-trade fight of 2009-10, Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol identifies the core problem: the radicalization of the GOP.
