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Climate and Hurricane Sandy: What’s in a name?
Plumbing the storm's names and nicknames leads to some useful takeaways for communicating about climate change.
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Tree-sits: Transcendent protest glory or just bottles of pee?
Tree-sitting protests are becoming more common. They're not just about buckets of human excrement -- they can also be effective.
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Climate change and overfishing hurt our cutest, tiniest fish
Sardines and other forage fish are struggling. Is it climate change, plankton decline, overfishing -- or all of the above?
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As gas prices drop elsewhere, New York begins rationing
Nationally, Hurricane Sandy doesn't seem to have affected gas prices, which are continuing to decline.
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What a Cabinet shake-up could mean for energy and the climate
Lisa Jackson at EPA, Steven Chu at the Dept. of Energy, and Ken Salazar at Interior are all rumored to be on the way out. Who might replace them?
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Little coyotes are moving to the big cities
From wildlife to city life: Coyotes are making homes in more of North American urban spaces.
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Climate change made Sandy worse. Period.
One symptom of climate change -- rising sea levels -- made superstorm Sandy directly and unmistakably worse.
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The fake ‘War on Coal’ continues, and a coal boss shares his prayer for a doomed nation
Post-election, coal stocks are down and coal-mine owner Robert Murray is praying for forgiveness for the "drastic decisions" he now must make.
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Does Michigan’s clean-energy loss mean that greens are outgunned at the state level?
Michiganders voted down a requirement for 25 percent clean power by 2025. Blame a torrent of dirty-energy spending, which we'll be seeing more of in the future, says David Roberts.
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Could hemp make a resurgence thanks to marijuana legalization?
Ballot measures passed in Colorado and Washington legalize hemp as well as marijuana. Could this kick-start an industry?
