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Word games are misleading the American public about fracking
Pro-drilling politicians often muddle the debate on natural gas. Here's a clearer look at a familiar talking point.
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Court upholds California’s cap-and-trade system
Two conservative groups sued to stop the state's year-old carbon-trading system. A judge told them tough luck.
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Meet the computer geek who took on Ken Cucinelli — and won
Michael Mann didn't come to politics. Politics came to him.
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The world is still losing its forests, and these beautiful satellite maps tally the toll
Deforestation is slowing in Brazil but picking up elsewhere. Meanwhile, climate change is ravaging forests around the Arctic and in the mountains of the American West.
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Anti-fracking activists celebrate victory in a fourth Colorado city
A recount has revealed that a fracking moratorium narrowly succeeded in Broomfield, Colo., giving fracking foes a clean sweep of recent ballot measures in the state.
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Obama’s departed climate chief pushed him toward action
During her time at the White House, Heather Zichal helped put in place new fuel-economy standards, funding for renewables, and the president's big climate plan.
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Looks like the Arctic has been heating up even faster than we thought
It's not easy to measure Arctic temperatures, and new research suggests that recent efforts have been underestimating the rate at which the region is warming.
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Could Carl Sagan have defeated climate denial?
Celebrating the great science communicator ... while being realistic about how much things have changed since the days of the Cosmos series.
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Denial dries up: Americans finally seeing the light on climate change
In red states as well as blue, a majority of Americans believe climate change is happening and the government should do something about it, according to a decade's worth of polling results.
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Look who’s eating your plastic now: A whole unprecedented ecosystem
We already had the biosphere and the atmosphere, but now we get the plastisphere, too.
