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U.S. faces climate-driven water shortages
As global warming accelerates, the world will become not only hotter, flatter, and more crowded but also thirsty, according to a new study that finds 70 percent of counties in the United States may face climate change-related risks to their water supplies by midcentury.
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The blame Obama game
Obama has received much of the blame, despite Congress being a separate branch of government. But so it goes in the age of outsized prez expectations.
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Can the renewable electricity standard be saved?
Last week, Harry Reid announced a pared-down energy bill, and it didn't include a key policy: the renewable electricity standard that would require utilities to get some of their power from clean energy. Now a coalition of groups is pressing him to put it back in.
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Ask Umbra on sustainable choices for cat litter
Are you thinking inside your cat's box? Ask Umbra herds kitties towards a greener way of pooping. If you have a friend with whiskers, you'll want to read this.
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What would the world look like without people? [VIDEO]
In honor of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, here are two videos showing what would happen if we humans suddenly up and disappeared.
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The climate bill is dead. Long live the climate bill!
Months after the Waxman-Markey/Kerry-Lieberman bill died, Harry Reid and environmentalists have finally admitted it is dead, and may even be ready to remove its rotting corpse from the living room and give it a decent burial.
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Financial-reform bill limits the speculation in ag commodity markets that sparked food crisis
While we mourn the dead climate legislation, it's worth noting that something non-hideous emerged from Congress last week. Buried within the financial reform bill, there's a set of provisions that evidently limit excessive speculation in ag commodity markets -- something that drove more than 100 million people into hunger in 2008.
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Urbivore's Dilemma, Week 7: Cooking with the ones you love
A former latch-key-kid-turned-takeout eater discusses harmony and chaos in the kitchen.
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The way forward after the Senate's climate failure
Here’s President Obama in April 2009: Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. As of yesterday, it looks like we’re gonna go with decline. Prosperity was over-rated anyhow. That’s what seems to be the message, anyway, from DC, where […]
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Senate energy package: Wait, it gets worse!
The Democrats are planning to put forward a very tiny, weak energy package. Here's what we know is going to be in the package.
