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World Forest Area Still on the Decline
By Emily E. Adams Forests provide many important goods, such as timber and paper. They also supply essential services—for example, they filter water, control water runoff, protect soil, regulate climate, cycle and store nutrients, and provide habitat for countless animal species and space for recreation. Forests cover 31 percent of the world’s land surface, just […]
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These charts of record temperatures in New York are trying to tell you something
But we can't for the lives of us figure out what.
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Six empty chairs that say more about the environment than Barack Obama
Last night, Clint Eastwood had a lively conversation with an empty chair that he apparently thought was Barack Obama. Grist List does not endorse candidates, but we know a lot about chairs for some reason, and frankly some of the chairs we’ve met have an environmental record that rivals the president’s. Obama should pick one […]
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Urban naturalist: Molly Steinwald challenges city kids to find the wilderness in a sidewalk crack
City kids are often taught that nature is “out there,” beyond the city limits, but this biologist/photographer/educator says “everyday nature” has the power to transform.
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As Romney mocks climate, Obama mocks Arctic
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise…is to help you and your family. – Willard Mitt Romney, August 30, 2012 The moment Mitt Romney mocked the climate crisis will be cursed, rued, and lamented by future generations. It might even be cursed, rued, and […]
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Hurricane Katrina caused a baby dolphin boom
Hurricane Katrina was irredeemably terrible for everyone involved — except, it turns out, baby dolphins. (And presumably adult dolphins, who got to enjoy making baby dolphins.) In the years after the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast, these cuties multiplied like excuses at a BP press conference, Scientific American reports: Around two years after the hurricane […]
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Governor Romney’s 2004 climate plan: Solyndra-style investment in renewables
Back in the day, as governor of Massachusetts, Romney proposed greenhouse-gas cuts, government investment in cleantech companies, better auto fuel economy, and lots of other good stuff.
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One-fifth of creepy spineless animals could disappear forever
Most species are spineless piles of goo. That’s not a value judgment: About 80 percent of the world’s species are invertebrates, which actually do lack spines. Metaphorically, though, it is we who are the spineless piles of goo, for standing by while these creatures disappear. A new report from the Zoological Society of London found […]
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Lawmaker: We’ll keep the wind tax credit if you give us Keystone
This is perhaps the worst proposed deal in recent Capitol Hill history.
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Chicago’s notorious Fisk and Crawford coal plants go offline
Chicago will no longer be the only major U.S. city with two coal plants operating within its borders, and that means vast improvements in the health of local residents.
