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Lake Superior is so hot right now!
Temperature-wise. Popularity-wise, I'm sure it's doing fine.
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World in Serious Trouble on Food Front
In the early spring of 2012, U.S. farmers were on their way to planting some 96 million acres in corn, the most in 75 years. A warm early spring got the crop off to a great start. Analysts were predicting the largest corn harvest on record. The United States is the leading producer and exporter of […]
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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.
