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The Koch brothers just kicked mass transit in the face
The billionaires just squelched efforts to raise the gas tax, which pays to fix roads and bridges, saying money was being wasted on bike paths and transit.
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Solving climate change will be difficult but worth it
Aggressive climate mitigation is absolutely worth the costs, but economic models are not a good guide to how difficult it might be.
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Tree simple tricks for making our cities cooler
By planting 30,000 trees, Melbourne, Australia, could lower its core temperature by 7 degrees. How cool is that?
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We could have more volcano eruptions thanks to climate change
Climate change is making Iceland taller and more volcanic, a new study finds.
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Here’s how we’re ruining one of the world’s largest lakes
Global warming and overfishing are killing Lake Victoria, leaving locals to scramble for solutions.
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Where Americans and scientists disagree, in one chart
Climate change, vaccines, GMOs: Where Americans just don't get science.
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Terrifying video shows smog taking over the earth
NASA scientists tracked atmospheric currents for a year, and found increased air pollution was linked to stronger storms. Yipes.
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This map is bad news for the Midwest
The Midwest has some very sweaty summers in store.
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TV networks now cover climate change, but they’re doing it wrong
According to a new study, the major broadcast news networks are covering climate change more than they have in years. The bad news: A lot of it is misleading and unscientific.
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How a black kid who grew up in the segregated South became a barefisted biologist
Tyrone Hayes took on a massive chemical company over the impacts of its top-selling herbicide. His story is the subject of a new Amazon original documentary produced by The New Yorker.
