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Relying on future tech to suck up carbon is rolling the dice with the planet
Scientists are trying to develop negative-emissions technologies. Will they work?
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Is synthetic yarn for the birds?
A knitter wonders if it's OK to put acrylic yarn scraps outside for birds to make nests with. Umbra Fisk swoops in with an answer.
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Ken Bone: “If I was Energy King …”
We talked to the red-sweatered star of the second presidential debate about climate change and his job as a coal plant operator.
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This YouTube survivalist can teach you to skin deer and cook rat
Shawn Woods hunts his own meat -- but he doesn't use a gun.
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Top U.S. climate negotiator warns the world is watching our deplorable election
The Paris climate deal will never be fully “Trump-proof,” Jonathan Pershing says. But rolling back progress wouldn’t be so easy.
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What’s the best way to deal with restaurant leftovers?
Advice columnist Umbra Fisk dishes up advice on dodging the Styrofoam clamshell.
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As ice melts and seas rise, can endangered languages survive?
From Greenland to the Marshall Islands, climate change threatens unique cultures.
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Wildfires aren’t just for the West anymore
As cities expand, so do chances of devastating wildfires.
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Here’s why you should care about energy poverty
It currently affects about half the people on our planet.