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This week in America’s crazy abortion laws: Texas, South Dakota, and Missouri
If you have to deal with a mandatory waiting period for an abortion, you may as well enjoy your state's giant, terrifying goose.
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America’s obesity problem just keeps getting, well, bigger
New data from the CDC reveals that obesity rates among adults rose from roughly 35 percent in 2011 to 38 percent in 2014.
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American cities keep fighting climate change while Congress stonewalls
Sixty-two U.S. cities aim to meet or surpass the national target for cutting carbon emissions, and Obama is encouraging more to join in.
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Portland, being Portland, says no to new fossil fuel infrastructure
City leaders just flipped the bird to the oil, gas, and coal industries.
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4 charts show what’s ahead for renewable energy
With the Paris climate talks around the corner, the future of clean energy looks promising.
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Here’s what you can fight now that Keystone XL is dead
Exploding trains and leaky pipelines: There are plenty of hotspots that climate activists could pursue now.
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Electric cars are better than gas cars when it comes to emissions, study says
It's true even when you account for the extra pollution from manufacturing EVs.
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New photos of China’s awful air quality make us nervous about coal plant plans
Air pollution in parts of China is the worst ever recorded.
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Pope Francis gets more people to care about climate change
In just a few months, his holiness achieved what environmental activists have been trying to do for years.
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A major Greenland glacier is collapsing
Scientists say that the melting Zachariae Isstrom glacier may raise sea levels by 1.6 feet.
