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Ask Umbra: Can I reuse the water from my dehumidifier?
A reader asks if she can drink the water from her dehumidifier. Umbra helps clear the air.
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Lord of the tree rings: What trees can teach us about fire and climate change
Meet a scientist who studies the burn history of some of the largest forests on Earth.
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Spirited discussion: In a New York distillery, insights on climate change
The Slow Ride Story guys get a glass, er, earful of tales about how the weather has been throwing local farmers for a loop.
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You look great in green: Clothing industry gets a makeover, maybe
Big retail companies -- from Adidas to Walmart -- are taking a deep look at the environmental impacts of their products.
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As temperatures rise, cities are getting hotter, faster
The urban heat island effect is increasing in many American cities.
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Mountaintop-removal mining contaminated up to 22% of streams in southern West Va.
A mining area of 600 square miles has polluted as much as 1,700 miles of streams.
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Fracking takes a hit in Penn., while most states still do little to regulate
Meanwhile, anti-fracking activists are descending on D.C. for a weekend protest -- with banjos in tow.
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Clean Air Victory for Texas as Coal Plant Permit Struck Down
This week Texas residents cheered when a judge invalidated the state air pollution permit for the proposed Las Brisas coal plant in Corpus Christi. The Las Brisas proposal is only the second new power plant proposed to be built within city limits anywhere in the United States (Chicago’s Leucadia is the other), and a coalition […]
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Look what trees are now reduced to, you jerks
We’ve left trees in the lurch so badly, they’re forced to grow hands and then take matters into them. This one’s reduced to panhandling on the street to support its rainforest relatives.
