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Google Maps-inspired film portrays cities as oil-addicted monsters
Director Patrick Jean combined map data and animation for this short film, which shows an American city called Motorville going in search of the oil that gives it life.
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Cape Wind wins billions in backing, launches offshore wind in the U.S.
With $2 billion of funding committed, the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound looks like it will be the first offshore wind farm in the country. It certainly won't be the last.
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Writer and local-living maestra Christie Aschwanden chats live with Grist readers
Aschwanden spent a year connecting to her "local habitat" and discovered that it was not only better for the planet -- it was better for her, too.
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Melting ice is a boon for archaeology
Humanity's history is flashing before our eyes as the glaciers melt, and archaeologists are kind of psyched about it.
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Wyoming and energy companies can keep fracking chemicals secret, court rules
Residents of Wyoming want to know what chemicals frackers are pumping into the ground. State officials know, but state officials won't tell.
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New Weather Channel show talks to the people who are trying to change the climate (with cartoons and jokes!)
The show visits researchers who are coming up with creative, and in some cases cray-cray, solutions to rescue us hapless citizens from the havoc we're wreaking on our world.
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Phoenix is doomed — to be a target for doomsayers
Phoenix may be in the bullseye of climate change, but it's got this over most other cities: It's built for the heat.
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Senate gives a big, fat thumbs-up to Keystone XL
The vote was non-binding but all too telling. On Friday, the Senate voted 62 to 37 in favor of building the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline.
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Drought that ravaged U.S. crops likely to worsen in 2013, forecast warns
NOAA predicts a tough spring for already struggling farmers as growing demand for water leaves U.S. more exposed to dry seasons.
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Environmentalists and gas companies sing Kumbaya, create voluntary fracking standards
The new, oxymoronically named Center for Sustainable Shale Development will certify gas companies that meet stricter environmental standards.