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Just add compost: How to turn your grassland ranch into a carbon sink
Can open fields capture atmospheric carbon and stash it away in the soil? You bet, says the data from a project in Marin.
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Older trees best at fighting climate change
It has long been thought that young trees are better than old ones at absorbing CO2. A new study suggests the opposite.
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Dumb cuts and dumber riders: The green take on the new federal budget
The bill is only marginally better on environmental spending than the sequester, and it includes riders that undermine environmental regulation.
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Don’t be smug: Your suburban neighbors cancel out your green urban lifestyle
Sure, living car-free in the city is the climate-friendly thing to do. But new research shows that the greenest urban cores are surrounded by the most heavily polluting 'burbs.
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This chart makes it painfully obvious that climate deniers are ridiculous
Only ONE of the 9,137 authors of peer-reviewed climate change articles rejected anthropogenic global warming.
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Fungi could help boost crops and slow global warming
Scientists are working to fine-tune and commercialize common fungi as they try to improve crop yields -- efforts that could also help with the climate.
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Disney radio will stop shilling for frackers
A Radio Disney station in Ohio had teamed up with the oil and gas industry on an "educational" roadshow, but after parents protested, the station backed out.
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Canada’s energy officials take over job of protecting fish from pipelines
Stephen Harper's administration decided that oil and gas officials would do a better job of managing fish along pipeline routes than actual experts.
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Flood pressure: Climate disasters drown FEMA’s insurance plans
A series of hurricanes has left the National Flood Insurance Program hopelessly in debt. A 2012 law aimed to fix that, but with residents of flood-prone areas irate, lawmakers are backpedaling.
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Christie administration’s bridge-blocking stunt was bad for environment
Cars idling in traffic generate extra CO2 emissions as well as local pollution that can contribute to respiratory ailments and deaths.
