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No longer top secret: The TPP trade deal is just as evil as you think it is
No trade pact is going to solve the world's environmental problems. But we can ask that they don't make things worse.
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Is the rest of the world’s climate action saving the U.S. billions of dollars?
A new report suggests that the U.S. stands to benefit by more than $2 trillion by 2030 due to global climate action.
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Polluting industries took over this California city. Now, residents are taking it back
A small factory town on the edge of downtown Los Angeles is inventing a new way for overpolluted communities to clean themselves up.
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Scientists told President LBJ about climate change in 1965
Too bad it didn't change anything.
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Wildfires, droughts, and frigid winters: Which natural disasters did climate change make worse?
A study found that some extreme weather events are strongly influenced by climate change, while others are hardly linked to it at all.
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There’s plastic in your fancy sea salt, study says
Plastics soak up pollutants in water and deposit them in your body. And that's not good.
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Can polluters block Obama’s Clean Power Plan in court?
Lawsuits from industry and Republicans are pouring forth like soot from a smokestack, aiming to undermine landmark rules for power plants.
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Watch us explain the Internet of Things with a jellyfish
Even if you care more about, say, trees than Silicon Valley-born electronics, the Internet of Things is something you should know about.
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Turns out Daylight Saving Time really does suck
When an exhausted reader wonders what the benefits of Daylight Saving Time really are, Umbra sets the record (and the clock) straight.
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Can something called the cleanweb help fight climate change?
These techies want to use the internet in the fight climate change, right alongside solar panels and urban farms.
