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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?
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Most big countries have climate laws
But there are some notable exceptions. Ahem.
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In “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the frontlines of a dying world
The New Yorker writer talks mass extinctions, climate inaction, and whether there's any hope (short answer: no. long answer: probably not).
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Obama has a good transportation plan. Now we just need to raise the gas tax to pay for it.
Enviros and smart-growth advocates are praising Obama's proposed transportation bill. Too bad funding is such a hurdle.
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Saline solution: When de-icing roads, we may want to pass on the salt
The overuse of road salt this winter might eventually mess up freshwater ecosystems. Thanks again, polar vortex.
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Fight the funk: This woman’s fight against garbage fumes became a national crusade
Vernice Miller-Travis connected the dots between the nasty haze that hung over West Harlem and the neighborhood's sky-high asthma rates. She is one of the unsung heroes of the environmental justice movement.
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Marcellus energy development could pave over an area bigger than Delaware
A new study predicts 106,004 new gas wells will be drilled in the Marcellus region.
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L.A. and California lawmakers move to impose fracking moratoriums
Some leaders in Los Angeles and Sacramento are fed up with fracking, which sucks up lots of water even as the state is suffering through a drought.
