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Wisconsin’s sand-mining boom could fuel fracking abroad
Wisconsin has just the right kind of sand for fracking, and industry wants to ship it around the world. But sand mining takes a serious environmental toll.
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Could this 2013 Nobel laureate afford college today?
Randy Schekman, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in medicine, says access to affordable, publicly supported higher education was crucial to his success. Can today's scientific talent even afford to pursue a career like his?
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5 ways Monsanto wants to profit off climate change
The agriculture giant has a variety solutions for mitigating and adapting to global warming.
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Nearly 70 percent of Fox climate pundits doubt global warming
A new study from Media Matters shows just how far Fox News has strayed from reality on climate change.
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Time to have a cow about dead cows
An early blizzard in South Dakota and Wyoming recently left a trail of bovine tragedy -- and a reminder of the side-effects of climate disruption.
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L.A. Times won’t publish climate-denier letters
Factual inaccuracies -- like claims that there's no evidence for human-caused climate change -- don't belong on the letters-to-the-editor page, the Times says.
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Get ready for record temperatures … for the rest of your life
In 35 years, U.S. cities consistently will be hotter than their hottest year on record.
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Who created the global warming “pause”?
How climate skeptics and the media -- with a little inadvertent help from scientists themselves -- forged a misleading narrative.
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Letter from Chip: Back from the brink
A first visit to New Orleans offers shoots of hope in an otherwise grim season of futile shutdowns and sobering forecasts.
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Using legos to explain carbon emissions to a child — or every adult who doesn’t get it
This short video is a simple explanation of the global carbon budget.
