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Big Oil’s new strategy: If you can’t build a new pipeline, just overload the old one
The Canadian government has given pipeline giant Enbridge the green light to pump tar-sands oil through an aging line north of Lake Ontario. What could possibly go wrong?
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Current events: Antarctic climate change is messing with the motion of the ocean
The ocean's coldest, saltiest waters are disappearing -- thanks to Antarctic currents shutting down.
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America could soon face more days of extreme rainfall
The warming climate is predicted to bring punishing rainstorms.
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America’s cities are still too afraid to make driving unappealing
Tough policies would truly change commuter habits, but we're barely seeing them.
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Louisiana’s coastline is disappearing too quickly for mappers to keep up
The challenges of surveying an intricate land mass that's losing 16 square miles a year.
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Tied to the rusty White House fence: Two Keystone protesters’ arrest odyssey
Sunday's civil disobedience action put the emphasis on "civil," but the arrested students intend to keep raising their voices.
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Drought-plagued California tries to drink the ocean (hold the salt)
Un-salted seawater might be one cure for California's water woes, and 17 new desalination projects are banking on it.
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Hundreds arrested at anti-Keystone protest in front of White House
The student-led demonstration was the "largest youth civil disobedience at the White House in a generation," organizers said.
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Low-lying islands are going to drown, so should we even bother trying to save their ecosystems?
Conservationists focus a lot of attention on imperiled islands. But if they're going to be inundated by rising seas, what's the point?
