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Texas judge rules that the atmosphere is protected under the public trust doctrine
The victory by a group of children who sued for climate action is significant, though the long-term impacts are uncertain.
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Three ways to protect food stamps from a cruel Congress
If the House gets its way, two to three million Americans could go hungry. But it doesn't have to be this way. Here are some recommendations.
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Baseball’s All-Star Game: So green, you’ll forget the game doesn’t matter
How green is the All-Star Game? So green, even the red carpet is green.
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The latest New York Times exposé won’t stop me from eating organic
The paper of record says consolidation and corporate influence has made the organic label meaningless. The Organic Trade Association says size doesn't matter. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between.
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The worst onshore oil spill in American history didn’t have to happen
The actions of the owner of a pipeline that dumped a million gallons of tar-sands oil into the Kalamazoo River made a bad situation worse.
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Strange things are afoot in the Arctic Circle
A research team recently discovered previously unknown life under young Arctic sea ice. Could it have anything to do with climate change?
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Photos of train tracks and airplane runways melting in the heat
Last weekend’s heat played havoc with transportation in the D.C. area, but at least we got some cool photos out of the chaos. The heat-buckled highway was just a heat-buckled highway — they’ve been all over the country this summer — but check out this plane sinking four inches into the tarmac at Reagan National […]
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High-speed rail in America: It might possibly actually happen
Maybe. Possibly. But not for a long time. Unless you live in California, in which case it's a slightly less long time.
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‘Missed Connections’ street art marks the sites of love affairs that never happened
I Wish I Said Hello takes the private moments of missed connections and puts them back in the public spaces where they occurred.
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Gambling advice: Don’t bet that the warm weather is just a fluke
The odds that we just had the warmest 13 months in American history by chance? 1 in 1.5 million.
