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Chicago’s garbage trucks will be rollin’ on volts
Our trash won't be riding dirty for too much longer. North America's first electric garbage truck is rolling through Chicago.
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35,000 walruses start their own climate march
Shrinking sea ice forces walruses to flop ashore en masse.
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Oyster prices could skyrocket if we don’t change our shellfish ways
That's the bottom line according to a scientist at the largest producer of farmed shellfish in the country.
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150 hurricanes later, these island people can teach us a few things about surviving climate change
The Gullah/Geechee Nation sits on a 35-mile-long string of islands on the Atlantic Seaboard. When storms hit, these folks take the brunt of it.
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Climate change is driving heat waves around the world
A new report pins the blame for a recent spate of heat waves on human-caused climate change -- but for the California drought, the evidence is murkier.
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The little island that could is going 100 percent renewable
El Hierro stands mere months away from its all-renewable goal, thanks to a wind farm that stores excess energy in a connected water turbine system.
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Watch this adorable scientist explain climate change with Cosby sweaters
The cute climate scientist will stop at nothing to fight climate change denial.
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Natural gas is not a good climate solution, even without methane leakage
More abundant natural gas is unlikely to cut greenhouse gas emissions much on its own, a new study finds.
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Watch Leonardo DiCaprio talk climate with the U.N., armed with facts & a glorious man bun
If nothing else, when the climate crisis bubbles into the mainstream, it's a great time to remember how much better-looking our side is.
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Watch Naomi Klein shred capitalism on the Colbert Report
Author Naomi Klein took free markets to task on Tuesday night's Colbert Report.