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  • The Hill’s Not Alive With the Sound of Music

    Gore climate concert kicked off of Capitol grounds In a decision that sent discordant music wafting toward Al Gore’s ears, a group of Republican senators has put the kibosh on using the Capitol grounds for a gigantic climate-change-awareness concert this summer. The group — led, not surprisingly, by climate skeptic James Inhofe (R-Okla.) — blocked […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • A Fine Discovery

    Some coral may be resistant to acidification, reefs still doomed The world’s oceans are on track to be more acidic by 2100 than they’ve been for 20 million years, thanks to our fiendish friend carbon dioxide. But research by Israeli scientists shows that the coral polyps living in underwater reefs may be able to survive, […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy

  • Alternative School

    U.S. college students are, like, totally into clean energy In answer to the loathed question “What are you going to do after you graduate?” gaggles of U.S. college students are looking into careers in alternative energy. (A group of college students is called a gaggle, right?) Green technology is having a heyday in schools from […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • And the Miliband Played On

    Despite talk of cuts, U.K. carbon emissions on the rise It’s too bad surging emissions aren’t cause for joy. Because then the Brits would be dancing right now instead of tearing each other new ones. But alas: data show that U.K. carbon emissions rose 1.25 percent last year, to the highest level since the Labor […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy