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The environment is trying to ruin the Olympics again
It's like Mother Earth doesn't want us to have fun for some reason.
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Heat brings U.S. climate debate to new boil
Are clean-energy policies already rescuing the planet? Or is it time for us to put a price on carbon that costs the fuel industry trillions?
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New York City is making cyclists go to remedial biker’s ed classes
New York City is treating wayward cyclists the same way a driver who’s racked up one too many DUIs might be: It’s sending them to class to review the basic rules of the road. The New York Times reports: This spring, the Midtown Community Court began sentencing cyclists who had been issued tickets for certain […]
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What I left out when I wrote about lowball renewable energy projections
My recent post about off-base energy projections glossed over the main reason that renewable energy has grown faster than predicted: policy. Good policy works!
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Half of Americans drink at least one glass of soda every day
Gallup has discovered a great divide in American society: There are those of us who drink soda and those of us who do not, and the country’s split almost exactly down the middle. Soda drinkers make up 48 percent of the country’s population. These are the people who drink at least one glass of soda […]
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NASA: ‘Unprecedented,’ ‘extraordinary’ ice melt in Greenland
It's not clear how soon the melted ice will be coming to a shoreline near you.
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Nature, revised: In a brave new world, we write the rules
Eco-critic Ursula Heise talks about the tired stories we tell about the planet, and suggests that we find some new ones.
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Sally Ride pushed us to understand our climate and our world
After becoming the first American woman in space, she went on to inspire kids to learn about science and coauthor a book about climate change.
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Wolverines refrigerate their food
Wolverines are loners, and they don’t like to share. They try not to hang out anywhere near other wolverines or other mammals, a social preference that some of us can relate to. And like other grumpy, anti-social creatures, wolverines do not like to share their food. You’d think that they’d be safe by living in […]
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This beer coaster can grow into a tree
It’s a little too easy to create a ton of waste while you’re getting wasted. Unless you’re near a store that provides growlers or you invest in a keg, drinking a lot of beer creates a lot of empty beer cans. And if you happen to be drinking at one of those bars that hands […]
