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Is ‘Twilight’ influencing our environmental imagination?
Wonder what’s shaping our warped relationship with the natural world? Look no further than popular literature, says ecocritic George Handley.
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Big military guy more scared of climate change than enemy guns
Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear says global warming “is probably the most likely thing ... that will cripple the security environment."
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N.Y. Times and Thomas Friedman call for killing Keystone
The New York Times editorial board and Times columnist Thomas Friedman have both come out swinging against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Forests growing in thawed-out Arctic
Thanks to climate change, millions of square miles of new trees and shrubs are turning the far north green, say researchers. And that's not good.
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Activism and policy are not the same thing
Keystone scolds seem to think that what activists are engaged in is a policy proposal. That's stupid.
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Watch a guy melt coins and burn concrete with nothing but concentrated sunlight
If you've got any doubts that the sun packs enough of a wallop to provide us with adequate power, this "solar scorcher" will explode them.
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Global temperatures are at a 4,000-year high
A new, in-depth study looks at temperatures stretching back 11,300 years, and the news doesn't bode well.
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Cluefulness on climate change is on the rise, even among Republicans
Two-thirds of Americans now know that the globe is warming, including 51 percent of Republicans, according to new polling.
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Pollution spurs more Chinese protests than any other issue
Rage over environmental abuses has become the leading cause of riots and civil unrest in China.
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Climate change is making animals shrink
Animals worldwide cope with climate change by getting physically smaller, in a biological trend scientists call "adorbs."
