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Paris bans cars, makes transit free to fight air pollution
Epic smog has settled over the City of Love, so officials are taking drastic steps to clear the air.
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Scientist would study climate change’s effects on turtles, if not for climate change
Will climate change complicate human attempts to adapt to a warmed world -- just as it complicates human attempts to study it?
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What was the point of the Senate’s climate talkathon? Changing the terms of the political debate
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) tells Grist what he hoped to accomplish by getting nearly a third of senators to stay up all night talking about climate change.
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When in drought, Californian salmon take to the road
U.S. Fish and Wildlife plans to help California salmon bypass drought-shriveled streams by trucks. Yikes.
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![Original Plaintiff couples (R-L) Hillary and Julie Goodridge, their daughter Annie, 9, lawyer Mary Bonauto and an unidentified couple react as streamers are set off during a First Year Anniversary Celebration of the legalization of Gay Marriage at Unitarian Universalist Association Headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, May 17, 2005.]()
![Original Plaintiff couples (R-L) Hillary and Julie Goodridge, their daughter Annie, 9, lawyer Mary Bonauto and an unidentified couple react as streamers are set off during a First Year Anniversary Celebration of the legalization of Gay Marriage at Unitarian Universalist Association Headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, May 17, 2005.]()
Why green change is hard: Lessons from the front lines of marriage equality
Scholar Tim McCarthy outlines parallels and differences between environmentalism's challenges and the LGBT and marriage-equality movement's successes.
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What these historical kings and marauders can teach our leaders about climate change
Never fight a land war in Asia -- unless the climate is on your side.
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Americans respond to climate change by yawning at it, poll finds
In a list of 15 national problems, only race relations is less of a concern for Americans than climate change, according to a new Gallup poll.
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Death toll from East Harlem gas explosion rose to seven overnight
The blast was the deadliest of its kind in the U.S. since a natural-gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno, Calif., in 2010, killing eight people.
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Gold-medal skier Ted Ligety raps with a snowflake to save winter
Another Olympian jumps into the climate fight, this time with a slightly depressed ice crystal.
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Want everyone else to buy into environmentalism? Never say “Earth”
A veteran marketer says green organizations must drop the nature imagery, talk about people, and repeat, repeat, repeat if they want to move the needle on climate.
