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Will the devastated monarch butterfly take flight again?
Activists are working to help these cute bugs rise to their former glory.
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How to Profit From Climate Change
As the world assembles in Doha to debate climate change policy, solutions, and costs, few attendees at “COP18” are looking at this as a profit-making opportunity. If they did, there might be agreements among nations instead of continued gridlock and finger-pointing. Over two decades ago, scientists warned that growing carbon pollution in the atmosphere would […]
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House GOP finds perfect energy committee staffer in the energy industry
I know! We were surprised, too!
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Natural gas is eating coal’s lunch in the Southeast
The Southeastern U.S., traditionally a coal-reliant area, is gradually shifting to natural gas as an electricity source.
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Ground-Breaking Solar Agreement Between LA and Nevada Tribe
Today Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an agreement to purchase enough solar energy from Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes to power 105,000 Los Angeles homes. (That’s him at the podium above making the announcement in front of a new array of solar panels at Occidental College). This ground-breaking agreement is great news for everyone […]
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China’s going greener, even if it means flattening 700 mountains
Expanding the country's dirtiest city will mean flattening the landscape.
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Unless hell freezes over, 2012 will be the hottest year in U.S. history
And we basically mean that literally.
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The 2012 Arctic report card: We’re going to need some summer school
Assuming that summer school involves desperately trying to keep ice from melting.
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French catfish jump onto dry land to eat pigeons
We're quite certain those fish are going around telling all the other fish not only that pigeons are a delicacy one must taste to appreciate the tender richness of the meat but that you're really meant to call them squab.
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This year, make it a DIY Christmas
Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, has some unconventional ideas for gift-giving this season -- and she needs a little help.
